Duck Creek, Nyngan - July 6
Belle O’Ballee, winner of the Marthaguy Picnic Cup last week at Quambone, backed up to win the 1250 metres Bogan Farms Duck Creek Picnic Cup on Saturday (July 6) at Nyngan. Illusive Star led the 10 horse cup line-up with Belle O’Ballee settling midfield before moving up wide on the home turn.
With leading jockey Leandro Ribeiro in the saddle for Dubbo trainer Connie Greig, the five-year-old mare Belle O’Ballee ($4) raced to a two-and-a-half lengths win from Mr Severino (Maddison Wright, $2.60 favourite) and Bush Warrior (Sebastian Galea, $8).
The first leg of a winning double for Connie Greig and Leandro Ribeiro was Benyatta in the feature sprint race, the 900 metres Aeris Resources Open Trophy Handicap. Fourth approaching the home turn, Benyatta won by almost a length from Super Hot (Zara Lewis, $2.80 favourite) and Hurn Court (Maddison Wright, $3).
Perfect Girl won the opening event, the 900 metres Inland Petroleum Maiden Plate. Now a leading trainer at Dubbo, Brett Robb was back home for the day with Perfect Girl (Izzy Neale, $2 to $1.50 favourite), which tracked the leader Kimo (Maddison Wright, $11) and then took control to score by two lengths with Kingzan (Tony Williams, $12) a handy third.
A close second to Real Salty at Marthaguy Picnics, the Geoff O’Brien, Quirindi-trained Redline (Zara Lewis, $4.20) led throughout to win the 900 metres Canonbar White Dorper Stud Class Two Trophy Handicap by over two lengths from Uprise (Maddison Wright, $7) and Equivocal (Tony Williams, $4).
Later, in the 1600 metres Fiveways Legal Class One Trophy Handicap, Gilgandra-based Zara Lewis established a big lead on the Wayne Martyn, Coonabarabran-trained Intense ($2.70), which held on for an almost five lengths win over Kalpana (Leandro Ribeiro, $2.25 favourite) and Eaglesaurus (John Wilson, $6).
Last early, the Terry Fulwood, Narromine-trained The Drafter (Ricky Blewitt, $7) began making ground from the 600 metres and finished best to beat Cranberries (Leandro Ribeiro, $5 to $2.80 favourite) and Hammoon Sky (Maddison Wright, $6) in the 1250 metres Aspect Property Class B Handicap.
