Yellow Brick back on road for Sydney riches after returning to winning ways at Eagle Farm
The real Yellow Brick stood up with a dominant win at Eagle Farm to earn another shot at a rich Sydney race.
“That’s our boy.”
So said co-trainer Maddy Sears as the real Yellow Brick stood up at Eagle Farm and earned himself a shot at next month’s $2m Five Diamonds at Rosehill.
Stepping up to the 1400m of the Listed Tatt’s Members Cup after finishing runner-up in the Weetwood Handicap on his home Toowoomba track for the second successive year, Yellow Brick was strongly backed from $3 to $2.60.
And Andrew Mallyon produced a peach of a ride to surge the star Queensland horse to victory for Maddy Sears and her father Tony.
“We were quietly confident coming into today,” Maddy Sears said.
“He is a very good horse and we always say how different he is on a good track compared to a wet track and he just put them away quite easily today.”
The win came after the Sears’ Toowoomba training team had announced they would be opening a new stable on the Gold Coast, with 20 boxes, in addition to their main base at Clifford Park.
Meanwhile, Nikau Spur became the first stakes winner for mother and son Toowoomba training team Kylie and Corey Geran when scoring the Listed Queensland Cup (2400m).
“That’s our first stakes winner, we have been the bridesmaids so many times now I didn’t think it was ever going to happen,” Corey Geran said.
“This horse is just a marvel.”
Nikau Spur races away with the Listed Queensland Cup! ðŸ†
— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) October 12, 2024
That's a winning double to @JimmyOrman 💪@BrisRacingClub | @geranracingpic.twitter.com/T2UfIVNPZq
NO JOY FOR KEVVIE AND ALFIE
Former Brisbane Broncos coach Kevin Walters and league legend Allan “Alfie” Langer had an afternoon out at the Eagle Farm races and for a fleeting second the filly they part-own looked like it could win.
Langer famously chanted “six more songs” as he led Queensland’s State of Origin celebrations last year at the Caxton Hotel, which went viral on social media, which inspired the naming of the Tony Gollan-trained filly.
There's fast... and then there's hella fast 💨
— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) October 12, 2024
Hella Fast makes it two from two!@schweidaracing | @BrisRacingClubpic.twitter.com/xOeNTu7mMD
Six More Songs started as a $20 chance in the QTIS 3YO Handicap (1000m) and was up near the lead and fighting things out before finishing fourth, beaten less than a length.
The race was won by impressive Kelly Schweida-trained galloper Hella Fast ($6.50) who won his second start and remained unbeaten.
“Every now and again you get a horse that gives you a different feeling and this bloke does,” Schweida said.
“He only does what you make him do.
“Today’s race was a well above average field and I think he’s a pretty exciting horse.”
APPIN GIRL SCORES AHEAD OF PENDING BIRTH
Matt Hoysted and wife Caitlin are about to have their second child and there was other exciting news on Saturday at Eagle Farm with the sensational comeback win of Appin Girl.
Hoysted feels four-year-old mare Appin Girl is the best horse in his stable and she showed what she can do as she was slow away, but flew home to score in her first run for almost a year.
Group 3 placed at Flemington last spring, Appin Girl looked briefly like she was going to be a certainty beaten with jockey Boris Thornton having a lapful of horse but nowhere to go.
The gap appeared and Appin Girl franked Hoysted’s lofty opinion of her, with Queensland summer carnival targets now in her sights.
“I do have another mouth to feed soon, my wife is going in soon to have our second child, so it was really good to get the win today,” Hoysted said.
Appin Girl returns with a win in the Sky Racing Hcp at Eagle Farm!@hoystedracing | @bozzathornton | @BrisRacingClubpic.twitter.com/RwqyWhlFN4
— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) October 12, 2024
Originally published as Yellow Brick back on road for Sydney riches after returning to winning ways at Eagle Farm
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