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<\/p>\nCigar Flick\u2019s fifth career win took her earnings past $600,000 in 26 starts and gave Berry a double on the day after an earlier success on Lugh.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe won\u2019t have too much more racing,\u201d Waller said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mum is a sister to Fangirl, so she\u2019s well-bred and she\u2019ll go to stud this year, and she\u2019s done a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victories gave Waller, celebrating a 15th consecutive Sydney trainers\u2019 title, 142 city winner for the season. He also claimed an Australian record 19 group 1s in 2024-25.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a good season and we\u2019re already warmed up and ready to go for the new season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen most of the horses have their first trials, and some are having their second on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe big guns are trialling again, two weeks after their first. We\u2019ve just got to work out where they all head. Just try to split them up best we can, and I think we\u2019ll have good representation in Sydney, but there will also be good overflow towards Melbourne.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pfieffer\u2019s Diamond shines again<\/p>\n
Warwick Farm trainer David Pfieffer was envisioning Oh Diamond Lil out front in the group 3 Belle Of The Turf at Gosford after she made it three wins in five starts this preparation.<\/p>\n
The $2.70 favourite raced alongside Aberlour in the benchmark 88 handicap (1600m) and the pair cleared out before Oh Diamond Lil surged to a two-length win. Aberlour was seven lengths clear of the rest.<\/p>\n
It was back-to-back Randwick mile victories for the $200,000 four-year-old So You Think mare, taking her record to six wins and five placings in 13 starts, and $442,600 in earnings.<\/p>\n
The $300,000 Belle Of The Turf (1600m) on December 30 loomed as an attractive next target for Pfieffer.<\/p>\n
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Oh Diamond Lil wins on Saturday.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m leaning towards giving her a short let-up and aim her up for something at the back-end of the carnival,\u201d Pfieffer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBelle Of The Turf, and she\u2019s an Inglis horse, so there\u2019s that mares race in Melbourne, and maybe even the wildcards for the Big Dance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIdeally we want to get some black-type for her down the track somewhere \u2026 and imagine her leading around Gosford. That\u2019s a nice race to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack bounces back for Widdup<\/p>\n
Hawkesbury trainer Brad Widdup will look to the listed Rosebud on August 16 at Rosehill with Farnan colt Nashville Jack after he returned with a dominant two-length win.<\/p>\n
A $4.80 chance with Sportsbet, Nashville Jack came from midfield with a rails run to race clear over the final 100m of the 1100m two-year-old handicap. Lindsay Park\u2019s Romeo\u2019s Choice was second.<\/p>\n
Nashville Jack, a $225,000 buy for new Everest slot-holder Mulberry Racing, was fourth in the Silver Slipper and fifth in the Black Opal Stakes in his first preparation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis run was very good in the Opal and he came in with a shoe sticking halfway up his foot, so we put him out,\u201d Widdup said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s trialled up really well and it\u2019s just great to see him return like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Widdup-trained Hasty Honey was later nailed close to the line in the sixth by Joe Pride-trained, Andrew Adkins-ridden $51 shot Investment.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s looking for 2400m, but I thought this race on the way on a wet track suited,\u201d said Pride, who backed Investment.<\/p>\n
Apprentice Will Stanley was suspended from August 4-11 for excessive whip use on Hasty Honey, which he hit 19 times. He earlier hit Forecaster nine times before the 100m mark and was fined $500.<\/p>\n
Dunn full of praise<\/p>\n
Murwillumbah trainer Matt Dunn will look to Brisbane targets with Full Of Sincerity after the five-year-old made the trip to Randwick worthwhile with a strong class 3 Highway Plate (1800m) win.<\/p>\n
A close fourth last start in the 2230m Grafton Cup prelude, Full Of Sincerity ($9 Sportsbet) travelled midfield for Ash Morgan before taking over at the 200m mark and racing to a one and three-quarter length victory from Stirling Osland\u2019s So You Are and stablemate Moon Sweeper.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s done a good job actually,\u201d Dunn said of Full Of Sincerity, a New Zealand Derby placegetter formerly with Andrew Forsman.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been up for a long time now and it took a bit of thinking whether we brought him down for this race or not.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately we thought we might get a softish track, like we did, and he appreciates that sort of ground, and obviously coming back in trip slightly, he was very good late.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Glorious farewell for Heavelon<\/p>\n
Namibian-born jockey Heavelon Van Der Hoven hopes to return and ride Glorious Moments again after the Jim and Greg Lee-trained son of Brutal gave him a first NSW metropolitan winner on his final day before moving to Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Glorious Moments backed up a maiden win at Canterbury on June 18 with a four-length domination at Randwick as the $3.80 favourite in the 1300m benchmark 72 handicap for three-year-olds.<\/p>\n
It was a first NSW city win for Van Der Hoven, who has been in Sydney for five years but is moving to base himself in Brisbane on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I wish it had happened earlier,\u201d the 32-year-old said of the breakthrough victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut very grateful for the opportunity and for the team for giving me the support that they have here and hopefully I can stay on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been doing well around here, I\u2019m just going to try and see how I go up there. I really like the atmosphere, and the weather especially, so I\u2019ll just try it and see how we go.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Glorious Moments was still raw but was an exciting prospect with a \u201cgood turn of foot\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cigar Flick\u2019s fifth career win took her earnings past $600,000 in 26 starts and gave Berry a double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-292937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114918827505298441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}