Super 6 derails after positive start

SATURDAY's Reggae 6 started with consecutive winning favourites, SONNY T AND CHIPPY and SOLACE, but got sticky from the third event when United States-bred DIGITAL ONE beat grade-one runners for the second time in a month, upstaging fellow Americans WALL STREET TRADER and PACK PLAYS.

SWEET VICTORY landing the fourth at 13-1 with Tevin Foster rocked many bets, forcing a $322,110 Reggae 6 payout, leaving a single-winner bonus of $10.09 million dangling this Saturday.

Meanwhile, DIGITAL ONE franked her terrific 1:06.0, clocked at five and a half furlongs three weeks ago, completing a hat-trick of wins with victory in the five-furlong round Gregory Park Sprint Trophy.

Breaking sharply with champion jockey Raddesh Roman from post-position two in the five-horse field, DIGITAL ONE matched PACK PLAYS, stride for stride, before turning back her rival's stablemate, WALL STREET TRADER, inside the final furlong.

Appearing a shadow of the horse who led December's Mouttet Mile with 128lb, 1-2 favourite PACK PLAYS failed to quicken when challenged by DIGITAL ONE three furlongs out.

Rallying strongly against the rail in the stretch run, while WALL STREET TRADER gained after stablemate PACK PLAYS packed it in, DIGITAL ONE clocked 1:00.1 for her third win in three months.

Meanwhile, Michael Cain's 21-1 longshot, RESTORATION, a $550,000 November claim from Anthony Nunes, outfinished ABREATHOFFRESHAIR, HOTBREAD SCAMMER and CRYPTOGIRL in a driving finish at five furlongs straight for the Grooms' Association Trophy.

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