It has been an extremely busy and successful month for the stable with plenty of racing and the Yearling Sales in full swing!!!
We concluded the month with the 2 day Sapphire Coast Bega Cup Carnival and a fantastic time was had by all that attended.
We came so close again to taking out the Bega Cup, with Brock Ryan giving The Guru a fantastic ride to finish 2nd behind the in form Room Number. We have had good results in the Bega Cup in the past 3 years with Monegal winning the 2020 edition, Golly I’m Lucky running 2nd in 2021 and now, The Guru finishing 2nd in 2020.
Alan finally had some luck in running aided by a perfect ride by Jess Taylor to take out the aptly named Bateup Racing Handicap on the first day of the carnival and was given a rousing reception on return to the mounting
yard!!!
My Alma broke through for a well-deserved win in the Showcase Maiden over 1400m on Bega Cup Day. Madison’s Missile led all the way to be beaten in the final strides in the Class 2 over 1000m, Superdini produced an excellent effort on debut to run 3rd whilst Foxtrot Bravo was a bit unlucky in the Sapphire Coast Cup finishing 4th and Pindarra’s Dream was desperately unlucky in the Bega Sprint finishing 5th.
For the month of January we ended with 5 winners, 2 x 2nd placings and 4 x 3rd placings.
The win of the month was a close contest! Our stable star, Monegal, delivered argualbly the best win of her career in a dominating performance at Rosehill on the 15th January (ridden by Sam Clipperton). Two days earlier Crackalacka unleashed an explosive finish to claim The Narooma Cup (and make it 3 wins from 3 starts for the stable!) ridden by Brock Ryan.
Redente Choice also produced an outstanding and eye catching effort on debut at Wagga coming from last to launch down the outside and easily win his Maiden at his first start, ridden by Kayla Nisbet.
Our other place getters for the month were: Densaur who finished 3rd in mid-week city company at Warwick Farm, Real Key (Kembla Grange) and Alan (Wagga) also collected 3rd placings.
I am very proud of our whole team and would especially like to thank my staff who have been working extremely hard and putting in a lot of extra hours over the past month!