Eremein takes GI BMW 08-04-06 photos courtesy Steve Hart Photographics

Saturday, 08 April 2006 Eremein BMW Winner Eremein stepped up to the plate to assume the mantle of Australia's weight-for-age star from the retired Makybe Diva with a devastating win in Saturday's $2.25 million The BMW (2400m) at Rosehill. Glen Boss rode the great mare to all her big wins including last year's BMW and put his hand up early for the mount on last year's AJC Australian Derby winner. "I asked to ride him months ago and my faith in him has been rewarded," Boss said. "He is a great horse, a great stayer and he will win the Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup." Eremein went into the race as $2.60 popular elect but with Our Smoking Joe, Lachlan River and Roman Arch taking off in a group early and clearing out from the field, punters had a few anxious moments when the gap looked too great. But Boss brought Eremein down the outside and he let loose in the straight to claim victory by 1-3/4 lengths over Railings who tracked him all the way. Our Smoking Joe held on for third a long neck away. Eremein, who is trained by Allan Denham for Geoff and Beryl White, was off the scene for the winter and spring after undergoing surgery to remove bone chips. He came into the race off a win in the Ranvet Stakes and became the fifth horse in the past 20 years to claim the double with the great Tie The Knot the most recent. "I thought it might have been too big a gap to make up in the straight and I rode him all the way," Beryl White said. "This is just fantastic." Denham said Eremein might have one more start this autumn in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) but was not as confident of the spring campaign as Boss. "He's jumping the gun a bit," Denham said. "But then he's a bit more excitable than us." Denham admitted his biggest worry in the race was Caulfield Cup winner Railings. "I was concerned because he was behind us," he said. "But in the end he couldn't stay with Eremein." Lee Freedman was happy with the effort of Our Smoking Joe who is on track to follow the path of his former stablemate Mummify to next month's Singapore Airlines International Cup. "I think if it was run slightly differently we would have won but all credit to the winner," Freedman said. "We were always going to make it a staying contest but we would have liked to get two or three cheap furlongs in the middle stages. "He did a great job to run third." © 2006 AAP

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