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WATSON PINS G1 HOPE ON VETERAN
The Straits Times
|November 21, 2025
Three-time Railway Stakes runner-up primed for fifth raid
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A flood of unashamed emotion will come for Holly Watson if she becomes Western Australia (WA)’s first Group 1-winning female jockey from piloting Comfort Me to victory in the A$1.5 million (S$1.27 million) Group 1 Railway Stakes (1,600m) at Ascot on Nov 22.
Watson said she would not be able to contain herself if she won the coveted prize with her favourite warhorse, who has remarkably finished second in the Group 1 feature three times in 2021, 2022 and 2024, and ran seventh in the 2023 edition.
She had no doubt the Rhys Radford-trained nine-year-old could upset a star-studded field to go one better.
The 25-1 chance will face 15 other contenders, including the Grant and Alana Williams-trained 13-5 favourite Watch Me Rock, who will be ridden by top Perth jockey William Pike.
Comfort Me got a late split to finish a close runner-up in the 2024 Railway Stakes behind Port Lockroy.
“He doesn’t know he’s nine years old. He is an absolute beauty,” Watson said.
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