A new two-year-old winner for TALL DARK STRANGER in Machx The Stranger (bred by P & D Thurston) who clocked 1:55.4 at Wagga in a track double for Empire sires with CAPTAINTREACHEROUS filly Treacherous Belle (S Jones, G Crocker & B Hewitt) in 1:55.8.
He also had a three-year-old winner at Redcliffe in Just A Cool Dude (Solid Earth), and some good banks topped up at Albion Park in Lux Aeterna (Brookly Lodge & la Spina family) who brought up $542,000 in 1:55.4, Launceston in Octagonise (Brooklyn Lodge) to get $62,000 and Gordons Bay (Brookly Lodge) who hit $251,000, and Cranbourne where Treacherous Times (M & S Moloney) broke through $100,000.
In North America, CAPTAINTREACHEROUS colt Prince Hal Hanover took the $385,000 Devlin Miller Adios Final at The Meadows in 1:48.1, and in a Pennsylvania Stallion Series division, colt Another C Note. STAY HUNGRY had a quinella in a division of the $69,000 Tyler B series in 1:50.4 with Frantic Hanover in over Aintplayinnice.
Captain Optimistic claimed a division of the Tomkins-Geers series in 1:49 at Meadowlands, and at The Red Mile, TALL DARK STRANGER colt Fletchers Field took a division of the Kentucky Golden Rod in 1:52.3.
Former roster sire BETTING LINE dominated again with five winners – Our Rebel Yell, Sapphire Gambler, Milli Me, Chilli Punter & Kobes Chainsaw – with winners for each of WESTERN TERROR (Western Arterra), WELL SAID (Warloch), ROCKNROLL HANOVER (Rocks Roy).
Photo: Lux Aeterna (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS), Club Menangle
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