Well, Well, Well, its that time again, the 2nd most important day of our racing calendar year is upon us, The Group 2 Energis Ballarat Cup heats!
To give the night some more oomph, we had 8 Vic Breeders heats this week with the semi finals on cup heats night and the final on cup night. The next 2 weeks is going to be HUUUUUUUUGE here at Ballarat.
In this weeks wrap I’II be having a look at our local chances, combined with a little history on the cup.
MONDAY-
Racing on Monday was very successful for the Ballarat trainers, 5 winners. We also provided the quinella’s for races 1, 3 and 7.
R1-Dark discovery for Jo Gigliotti & Senni Bones for Billy Innes
R3-Kinloch Kaiyo for Sam Bonaccurso & Bekim Nikita for Darren Cook
R7-Andelven for Tony Sacco & Wrecking Ralph for Paul wilson
Kinloch Kaiyo & Bekim Nikita fight out race 3
WEDNESDAY-
Wednesday nights card was a ripper. We had 8 Vic Breeders maiden heats which always produce something special to follow and it did just that. Also we had the final of the Topcat Summer Classic and wasn’t it a great race with Dr Don Saluting in fine fashion, cementing his spot in next weeks cup heats. The mixed 4/5 was also used as a pre- cup heat trail for one of the local hopes Rosie Rocks. The short priced Aston Bolero was the bench mark after winning his last 5 on the trot, Rosie lead Aston to the first peg but then he took over mid race and quickly put a couple of lengths on the field but in the final stages Rosie rallied to pin the margin back to half a length and guarantee her spot in next weeks heats.
The 8 Vic breeders heats
Heat 1 was taken out by the Britton trained Mepunga Fame in 25.45 Results
Heat 2 was won by Micky Wallworths Timmy’s Entity in 25.40 Results
Heat 3 went to the Norm Rinaldi trained Destini Lass in 25.62 Results
Heat 4 was won by Trya Tron for David Geall in 25.50 Results
Heat 5 saw Don The Sash win for Nicole Mcrae in 25.61 Results
Heat 6 went to the Chole Dew trainer Where’s Dex Star in 25.46 Results
Heat 7 was taken out by Lorimer Lad in very impressive style for Gary Ennis in 25.19 Results
Heat 8 the final heat, went to the John Magri trained Chevsta in 25.43 Results
A very competitive bunch of heat that will make some great semis next week.
Lorimer Lad Wins in impressive style
Willy Mcmahon trained Dr Don took out this years running of the Topcat Summer Classic, a great lead up to the Ballarat cup.
After overcoming box 6 in last weeks heat and winning in 25.40 he then had to overcome box 4 in the final, he did so with ease lobbing 3rd up the back and then powering away in the home straight to win in an impressive 25.098 BON.
Dr Don takes out the Topcat Summer Classic
Local cup hopefuls
Its been a very lean period for locals and our beloved cup, its been 30 years since a local has trained a winner when the mighty Trisun saluted in 1985, many greats have tried including Exclusion, Vapour Whirl, Pete’s Conquest and Bombastic Blade but just couldn’t get across the line.
I’ve done my very best to gather up all the local hopes for next weeks heats.
Alf King is looking at entering Mahogany Sapphire.
Neville Vincent is entering the highly talented Six Green thumbs.
John Higgins is going to have Who’s that Chap going around.
Rohan Gladman is definitely entering Rosie Rocks after Wednesday nights top effort.
Gary Hansen will have Call Me Hank representing the kennel
Team Brennan look like entering Due Process
Daryl Weightman will assess Shazzle’s Boy after his run at Geelong
Joe Borg has a big team for his assault on the cup heats, Lee Brilliance, Stompin, Ballerino and Agent Jack are his hopefuls.
That will be 11 local possibilities, lets hope we get a few through to the final and break this 30 year drought.
We will have the 2015 Group 2 Ballarat Cup displayed in the glass cabinet near the entrance if you would to have a look.
THE LOCALS-
The locals had a very successful week with a total of 18 individual winners, amongst them were 2 final winners.
There was a dead heat again with the bragging rights between Team Brennan and Joe Borg both had 3 winners for the week.
Team Brennan had a double at Bendigo with litter mates
-Stefanovic went back to back in 24.24
-Denya back to winning ways in 24.51
-Darcy Rose broke through to win her maiden at Warrambool 25.86
Joe Borg had 3 winners, 1 being a Group 1 Bold Trease heat on Thursday night.
-Come on fantasy at Sandown (Bold Trease Heat) in 41.95
-Cape Crusader at Shepparton in 25.83
-Stopmin romped in at Shep also in 25.39
Chris Stanton had a double on Tuesday at Geelong
-Golden Blaze in 22.82
-Southwood Lloyd in 22.97
Other winners around the region were
Blingsteen for Frank Meyer, Rosie Rock’s won her final at Geelong Friday night for Rohan Gladman, John Higgins won the Final with Run Right Back at the Meadows Saturday night & Sammy Bonaccurso’ Maverick Blondie running second, Shazzles Boy won at Healsville for Daryl Weightman, Jo Gigliotti had Dark Discovery win on Monday at Ballarat, Kinloch Kaiyo for Sam Bonaccurso, Claretown for Peter Griffen, Andelven for Tony Sacco and Alk King with Baroness Molly.
