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Stewart’s Ideal cup run tipped to go on at Valley after Torrid draw

The all-conquering Emma Stewart stable looks set to continue its stranglehold on the country cups season with Hes Ideal, who will be short odds to build on his picket fence form line in the United Petroleum Yarra Valley Pacing Cup.

The son of American Ideal is unbeaten in all four starts this time in and has drawn to find the lead during the early stages of the race from his mid front row alley.

The stable has swept this season’s most recent cups, taking out the Maryborough (Act Now), Geelong (Mach Dan) and Swan Hill crowns (Our Millionaire) in the past three weeks.

The one constant in each has been the Julie Douglas-trained Torrid Saint, whose unplaced effort at Geelong was punctuated by placings at Maryborough and Swan Hill.

Jack Laugher, who has been in the sulky on all three occasions, admits the magnitude of Thursday’s task, when he’ll need to turn the tables from the second row, may be a bridge too far.

“They were dawdling in the Geelong Cup and if we wanted to win then I had to come around them and try and get the front but it wasn’t there,” Laugher said.

“If the speed is half genuine then we would be able to track into it but more often than not nobody wants to take them on, so if you sit back then it’s just too hard to get into the race.”

He said Torrid Saint was luckless when he finished third behind Our Millionaire last week, having to advance from four horses back along the pegs.

“I didn’t think he was too bad at Swan Hill after not having much luck and he hit the line all right, so he is holding his form,” he said.

Laugher believes the Yarra Valley Cup could create more than its share of interest, noting “it looks a good race with a few different form lines coming together”.

The card also features the De Bortoli Yarra Valley Trotters Cup and there is an argument to suggest One Over All could have been, with a little luck, shooting for a hat-trick of country crowns.

Two starts ago the Jess Tubs trained four-year-old was slowly away from the tapes before being held up until the home turn and finishing an unlucky second behind Parisian Artiste in the Maryborough Trotters Cup.

The royally-bred trotter made amends when he established a track record after sitting parked in the Haras Des Trotteurs McNamara Memorial Trotters Cup at Geelong a week later.

The cups are races seven (3.34pm) and eight (4.14pm) on the 12-race program. All races can be enjoyed live and free on TrotsVision.com.au, with extended coverage for the quaddie legs (races five to eight).

TUNE IN at YARRA VALLEY on Thursday 

First Race: 11.52am Last Race: 6.40pm
Racecaller: Luke Humphreys, who will be joined by Rob Auber and Shannon O’Sullivan on TrotsVision.
TrotsVision: WATCH LIVE
SEN Track: LISTEN LIVE 
RSN 927: LISTEN LIVE

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At Kilmore on October 19, LUELLA put in an eye-catching performance to finish fourth. Considering she has a national rating of 55 and the three horses in front of her were rated 69 and above, her effort was very encouraging. She settled four back on the markers, gained a clear passage on the home turn and stormed home late. REPORT & REPLAY
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