Breeder-owner Brendan Fahy has been making sure of that with his breed who boast "Rak" in their names. Raksbet and Rakarover again put Rakahouka on the map when they won at Wyndham yesterday.
Raksbet scored for Rakahouka’s No1 trainer, Clark Barron, and driver Blair Orange.
The horse galloped out of contention in her only previous start but showed perfect manners when she swept up on the home turn to out-finish the favourite, High Line, in race 2.
Rakarover gained a deserved win for trainer Peter Hunter and driver Matthew Williamson in race 8. He had raced without luck in his recent starts. Yesterday Williamson saved Rakarover for one late run and he unwound strongly wide out to win.
Two races later Williamson produced a prefect front-running drive on the Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen trained-Duplicated. The reinsman had the 3yr-old in front and set his rivals Funatthebeach and Master Moonlite too much of a task to reel Duplicated in at the finish.
Only hours before the win, the Purdon-Rasmussen camp was hit with more bad injury news. Vincent became a shock late withdrawal from tomorrow’s Ballarat Cup after what Rasmussen described as swelling on the horse’s nearside front leg. The stable had already withdrawn Lazarus and Ultimate Machete from the WA Pacing Cup this week.
