Peter and Belinda Blanch celebrated their biggest day since officially entering a training partnership with a city double at Morphettville on Saturday.
Exciting four-year-old pair Boolcunda King and Rich Gina continued their progression through the grades with impressive victories and the stable is hoping to have both horses in action on TAB Finals Day at Morphettville early next month.
Rich Gina made it successive metropolitan wins while Boolcunda King had things go right for the first time this campaign producing a brilliant finishing burst to run over the top of Exalted Fire.
Top jockey Barend Vorster was in the saddle for both, making it two doubles in as many days after booting home two winners at Friday afternoon’s Gawler Cup meeting.
The boutique Morphettville stable have had just 18 starters for six winners since the partnership became official at the start of the new racing season.
Andrew Clarken’s I Am Bene found winning form with an impressive win over Manhatten Times while a luckless Outpost was also back to winning form for Jason Cannon.
Over the border SA-owned three-year-old Berkeley Square bounced back from a luckless Caufield Guineas to win the $500,000 Group 2 Vase at Moonee Valley on Cox Plate Day.
THE form out of the Adelaide Racing Carnival was franked when My Whisper defeated Roots in the Group 3 Tesio Stakes.
Both horses tackled the Australasian Oaks at Morphettville in late April before fighting out the mares feature at the weekend.
AND Murray Bridge galloper Montign’s rapid rise through the ranks continued when he claimed Friday’s Gawler Cup.
Ridden by Todd Pannell for the first time, Montign arrived just in time to beat Hankstar and Bold Star.
Having only won his maiden in May last year, Montign has now won six of his last eight starts for Murray Bridge trainer Stuart Padman.
