STAY HUNGRY with another top set of results – filly Ark Sea (bred by M & C Ryman) topped $169,000 in earnings with a 1:53.2 win at Wagga, Hungry Hippo (Brooke Hammond) hit $88,000 with his Raider Stakes heat win in Launceston, and at Globe Derby Park, three-year-old colt Lochinvar Leader (Brooklyn Lodge) went back-to-back.
The big win came at Albion Park though with CAPTAINTREACHEROUS mare Captains Mistress (Taffy Ltd) running a track record of 1:50.3 to claim the GROUP 1 Rising Sun, her fourth consecutive win.
A slew of juveniles ran their best too – two-year-old filly Gordons Ghost (C Dolling, E Kay, H Enright & K Riordon) back-to-back at Newcastle, super speedy colt Major Austin (Mark Carey) in 1:54.4 in a track treble with Grumpyshannon (Jonathan McAlister), building a picket fence at Geelong was filly Shiffran (S Robertson, A Goadsby & M Tanner), and at Melton Le Cardinal (C & J O’Connor) went 1:52.3. In New Zealand it was fillies to the fore, with Treacherous Me (Taffy Ltd) up at Invercargill and a new winner at Cambridge in Olympic Ko (Cahillio Pty Ltd). In the older ranks, Gidup Captain (J Edmunds, S Jory & M Stanton) took another win at Redcliffe to knock through $50,000 in stakes.
In North America, his sons were setting the Meadowlands track alight – Ervin Hanover set a track record of 1:46.3 to take out the $168,000 Dave Brower Memorial, while Captain Optimistic also went 1:46.3 to claim the $230,000 Graduate Series Final. At the Meadows, he had three two-year-old fillies victorious – My Taylors Swift in a $43,000 division of The Sand Tart, and Treacherous Taps and Loyal To The End in Stallion Series divisions.
TALL DARK STRANGER filly Miss Chevious also took a $43,000 Sand Tart division, while at home he was represented by Set Play, SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE by the outstanding Bay of Biscay, and BETTING LINE by Butter Cup, Muzzamemate and Lambro Mach.
PHOTO: Captains Mistress (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS), QRacing
New 3YO winner – CAMBRIDGE
OLYMPIC KO
CAPTAINTREACHEROUS – Crispr – Art Major
