Payne Filly Stays Perfect At Morphettville

The Patrick Payne trained Zizzis (Aus) (Sizzling {Aus}) maintained her unbeaten record when winning the valuable Magic Millions Adelaide 2YO Classic at Morphettville on Monday. The A$120,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale purchase opened her account at the first time of asking in a maiden at Bendigo on Feb. 28 and stepped up nicely to beat 13 rivals in Monday's A$200,000 six furlong contest. Nicely positioned in fifth early on under jockey Billy Egan Zizzis was asked for her effort at the 300m marker. She drew level with runner up Illuminaire (Aus) (All Too Hard {Aus}) 100m from home and forged clear close home to win by a length and a half. Payne was winning the race for the second time in the last four years and said, “She's got a great attitude. She's a real professional – she really wants to please you. We led on her at Bendigo and we didn't think it was the right thing to do, so we decided to take a sit today to get the 1200 metres and she did the job beautifully.”

Part owner and syndicator Joe O'Neill has enjoyed plenty of success with his Magic Millions graduates having bagged five of the auction house's sales races in the last five years and regarding future plans for the Zizzis he said, “I'll talk to Patrick Payne but I wouldn't mind taking her to Sydney – there's a 1200 metre fillies race on the week after the Doncaster. I think we might take her up there and shake up the New South Welshman a bit.”