It was a day of favourites at Rosehill on Saturday and in the 2011 Bill Ritchie Handicap it was no different with Thankgodyou’rehere getting up easily across 1400m.
Ridden by veteran jockey Rodney Quinn he was put in a perfect position from barrier one and really the race was in his keeping before they even made the turn.
Quinn was content to sit just off the pace until they began to straighten before working his way out easily and going to the leader 400m from home.
He cruised through the final stages and Quinn never got to the bottom of him as he crossed the line with a decisive two length margin.
Startsmeup was the closest to him as he battled on well over the final stages with another break of nearly three lengths back to Miss Keepsake who ran third at big odds.
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