Antarctic Brings Childs In From Cold

Sun Herald

Sunday September 16, 2007

By Patrick Bartley Moonee Valley

IT WAS hard to mistake the sense of relief on the face of jockey Greg Childs yesterday after he scored his first city win since returning to the saddle last month on Antarctic Miss in the group 3 Champagne Stakes.

Childs was badly injured in a track accident in Brisbane during the winter carnival and was sidelined for three months. But yesterday, he showed he'd lost none of the skills required at the top level of race riding.

"It's been hard, very, very hard to get back and get some good rides," Childs said.

"I've lost a number of strong mounts and it's the old equation: poor rides, no winners and you're back in the ruck.

"You have to work hard in this game."

Antarctic Miss is trained by Nigel Sutcliffe, the one-time foreman for Mike Moroney at Flemington. Sutcliffe has nine horses in work at Geelong and Antarctic Miss is clearly the star of the team.

"I came to get the filly when I met her connections at the New Zealand sales last year," he said.

"Antarctic Miss was due to fly out to Adelaide with a David Hayes consignment, but, after some fast talking, I managed to keep the filly."

Antarctic Miss will be aimed at the group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield next month.

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