Bathurst’s Amanda Turnbull is looking down the barrel of capturing her third Kriden Farms Canola Cup following her dominance on day one of the Eugowra Harness Racing Club’s Spring Carnival last Sunday afternoon.
Turnbull landed two of the three qualifying heat winners on the nine-race program and completed the afternoon with a winning treble.
Pre-series favourite Chart Topper appeared to have something up his sleeve when he cruised to a three-metre win in heat two after doing all the bullocking work outside the leader.
Trained in Victoria by Nathan Jack, the three-year-old rated 1.59.3 and defeated My Ultimate Flynn while Tinny Mahoney ran an eye-catching third, coming from the tail of the field to qualify for next week’s $30,000 Canola Cup.
The combination of Jack and Turnbull repeated the dose in heat three when Rocknroll Raider won in similar fashion to his stablemate, facing the breeze before holding a clear margin over a wall of horses that included placegetters Roll To The Top and Artemis Mission while fourth placed Jorge Street is likely to make the final given that the race was run in the fastest time and he was not beaten all that far.
Artful Prince led throughout and proved far superior in the opening heat for trainer Wade Judd and visiting Goulburn driver Harrison Ross.
Know The Score and Dorristopaythebill qualified for next week’s final by finishing in the placings.
The 2022 Canola Cup winner Racing Time was able to stick his neck out to get home first by a narrow margin, providing Amanda with her third winner while rejuvenated nine-year-old gelding Camstar Road scored his seventeenth career win in the feature race on Sunday afternoon, the Forbes Livestock – Mick Rawsthorne Memorial.
Driven by former Parkes reinsman Blake Medlyn, the Monica Betts trained pacer is racing in the best form of his career, winning three of his past four starts.
Nathan Turnbull enjoyed a successful afternoon by training a winning double, his first being Megs Monaro with son Jett aboard and the second with Trioli for Jye Coney.
Oberon three-year-old Phantom Star won the opening race on Sunday’s program while the David Micallef trained Ulaanbaatar provided Harrison Ross with a winning double in the gig later in the afternoon.