2012 Cesarewitch

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Scatter Dice Rolls to Cesarewitch Victory
12/10/13

1 Scatter Dice 66/1
2 Waterclock 20/1
3 Lieutenant Miller 10/1
4 Chiberta King 20/1
5 Pallasator 8/1
NR: Thecornishcockney
33 ran Distances: 3l, ½l, ¾l
TIME 3m 52.75s (slow by 7.75s)

Scatter Dice sprang a 66-1 surprise to win the Cesarewitch Handicap at Newmarket despite being left trailing at the start.

Mark Johnston
© Caroline Norris

The Mark Johnston-trained filly lost many lengths to the rest of the field at the start but, galvanised by a first-time visor and the assistance of Silvestre De Sousa, she made up the ground to take the two-and-a-quarter-mile stamina test.

The jockey brought Scatter Dice on the wide outside to make her challenge and she stormed past Lieutenant Miller inside the final furlong and went on to win by three lengths from Waterclock. Lieutenant Miller was half a length away in third and Chiberta King fourth.

"It's unbelievable. She's such a trier. She had a visor on for the first time but she was just a bit sleepy (in the stalls). She's done really well," de Sousa told Channel 4 Racing.

Johnston, winning the race for a third time, said: "She's had a long, hard season but has run well on so many occasions. She's going to retire at the end of the year, that was the plan anyway, so I suppose this was her last chance.

"She's run a couple of strange races recently, dropping herself out, so I was a bit concerned in the first half of the race that she was all right, but then I saw her hanging in with the pack. I saw her coming from a quite a long way out."

Betfred Cesarewitch (Heritage Handicap)
£250,000 added, 3yo plus, 2m 2f, Class 2
33 ran
Going: Good to Soft, Good in places