Racing: Motu Speedy Star records another upset in Kurow Cup

Motu Speedy Star (inner) wins the Kurow Cup at Oamaru yesterday. Photo by Tayler Strong.
Motu Speedy Star (inner) wins the Kurow Cup at Oamaru yesterday. Photo by Tayler Strong.
Oamaru: Motu Speedy Star caused his second major upset with success in the Kurow Cup at odds of 47-to-one yesterday.

The 8yr-old overcame a 30m handicap in his first race for three months. He is trained in Oamaru by Eion Latimer.

Motu Speedy Star won the Waimate Cup last December at odds of 88-to-one.

Brad Williamson, the 18-year-old junior driver, has driven him in both wins.

Eddie Boy provided a highlight yesterday with a nine-and-a-half-length win in a maiden race.

Eddie Boy led over the last 1900m of 2600m and careered away in the closing stages.

He was having his third start after proving wayward. He qualified for Kirk Larsen but disgraced himself in two starts.

"I couldn't carry on with him on my own so I syndicated him," his Winton breeder, Marty Fairbairn, said.

He took Dave Robinson, of Invercargill, Robert Symon, of Waianawa and Gus Johnson, of Invercargill, into the ownership and they sent the horse to Graeme Anderson and Amber Hoffman at Westwood.

Eddie Boy had staged a big run for second at Forbury Park on June 21 in his first outing from his new stable.

Eddie Boy, a 5yr-old gelding by Elsu from Bonnie Deal, is a half-brother to Best Deal Yet, who won for Fairbairn from the Larsen stable in November.

Best Deal Yet was sold to Merv and Meg Butterworth, of Melbourne, and transferred to Mark Purdon and Grant Payne. Best Deal Yet has won the Premiers Cup, Gold Coast Derby and Queensland Derby at his last three starts.

 Ten Too and Champagne Driller won yesterday at their first starts.

Ten Too was transferred to the Woodend Beach stable of Robert Dunn 10 days earlier by part-owner and trainer Mark Smolenski, who shares ownership with his son, Sam.

"He [Ten Too] was perfectly rigged and I haven't changed a thing with him," John Dunn, the stable foreman, said.

"Mark was just not happy with him."

Ten Too, a 7yr-old, qualified at Rangiora last October and he won at trial on July 16. He is a half-brother to Habibti, the 2yr-old trotting filly of the year.

Champagne Driller, who led all the way, is a 3yr-old filly bred to northern hemisphere time (January foal). She is trained by Regan Todd at Burnham and raced by Clemence Drilling Limited operated by Dave Clemence, of Kaiapoi.

He bought the daughter of Christian Cullen and Champagne Party for $11,000 as a yearling at the dispersal of Cullen Breeding in 2010.

 

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