Pat Driscoll’s Yabby Dam Farms and his private trainer Anton Golino had a red-letter day at Maryborough on Monday when they combined to win three of the 10 heats of the Aldebaran Park Vicbred Super Series for trotters.
The combination won two qualifiers of the three-year-old fillies’ division with Revelstoke and Courmayeur, and a heat of the three-year-old colts and geldings with Cravache Dor.
Courmayeur (pictured) posted the fastest time of the day at a 1:58.9 rating.
The trio was bred by Driscoll and expertly driven by Nathan Jack.
Driscoll bred a fourth winner and Jack drove a fourth winner with exciting youngster The Locomotive in the opening heat for two-year-old colts and geldings. The Muscle Mass colt has now won eight of his 11 starts for $148,298 in stakes and is clearly the cream of his crop.
The other two-year-old colts and geldings’ race fell the way of the Queensland-owned Hide And Seek, who was making his debut for Jess Tubbs and Greg Sugars.
The two heats for two-year-old trotting fillies were taken out by Rockinwithattitude, prepared by David Miles and driven by Jayden Barker, and Paris Jamilla, trained by Sam Barker and driven by Bailey McDonough.
Rockinwithattitude, a daughter of the deceased American import Aldebaran Eagle, notched her eighth success from 13 starts.
Young Bendigo horsewoman Michelle Phillips landed her first training success when she captured the opening heat for three-year-old fillies with Kimora Saffi, who sat parked throughout.
Blitzthemcalder, who won the Vicbred series at two and three years, was represented by the end-to-end winner of the final heat for three-year-old colts and geldings in Gaelic Lad.
The all-American bred colt Courage Stride, trained and driven by Chris Lang, showed he will be a force in the Group 1 $100,000 final at Tabcorp Park Melton on New Year’s Eve with an authoritative win in the opening heat of the three-year-old colts and geldings’ section.
VICBRED FINAL QUALIFIERS
2YO TROTTING C&G: ALDEBARAN JENSEN, ESS KAY HOLLYWOOD, HIDE AND SEEK, KYVALLEY ANTHONY, LA VOLONTE (1st Em), LARR DEES SON, MAORI FRANKLIN, MOONWALKA, STEVIE GEE, THE LOCOMOTIVE, UPTOWN LAD, WATTS UP PARTYTIME, YOUR KIDDING
2YO TROTTING FILLES: ALDEBARAN MILEY, COGNATI, DICHOTOMY, IZARRA, JILLIBY JETPACK (1st Em), ONE PINEVALE HILL, PARIS JAMILLA, ROCKINWITHATTITUDE, SALSKI, SKEW WHIFF, TRADIE LADY, VALERIE LANE, VICI BLOOM
3YO TROTTING C&G: ARCEE PHOENIX, BERATINI, COURAGE STRIDE, CRAVACHE DOR, EVERYBODYLUVSKENNY (1st Em), FREDRHYS, GAELIC LAD, IM BOBBY, KYVALLEY PIERRO, MY JERRY, PLYMOUTH CHUBB, RASTAMON, WAIKARE MAXWELL
3YO TROTTING FILLIES: ACOOL INVESTMENT, ALDEBARAN MISTY, CONSTANT (1st Em), COURMAYEUR, EBONYS AVENGER, ILLAWONG LARAJAY, JUST A BIT TOUCHY, KIMORA SAFFI, LA PERRIERE, LINDYS LOVE, REVELSTOKE, STINGOFAWASP, USED TO BE A MAID
