Stable on Eve of something special after winning first Vicbred title

01 July 2016 | Michael Howard
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Anton Golino celebrates after Aldebaran Eve wins the Vicbred two-year-old fillies.

Anton Golino celebrates after Aldebaran Eve wins the Vicbred two-year-old fillies.

An emerging trotting powerhouse fired its first shot in the Empire Stallions Vicbred Super Series, with Aldebaran Eve winning the three-year-old fillies’ final for trainer Anton Golino and owner Pat Driscoll.

Having established Yabby Dam Farms at Cardigan, near Ballarat, Driscoll and Golino won with the filly by Skyvalley out of Aldebaran Dream, who Greg Sugars put into the box seat from barrier one and had the most tickets left in the straight.

“It’s a real thrill for Pat and Anton to score a winner in the Vicbred series, their first since setting up and moving down to Victoria,” Sugars said.

“They are a terrific outfit and great group of people, not only those two but all the workers around them. It’s a privilege to be associated with them.”

Golino said he “appreciated” the win “a lot”, lauding “all my staff and Greg for such a great drive”.

Aldebaran Eve was steered to the leader’s back from barrier one, with favourite Into The Unknown taking the breeze outside the leader, second favourite Princess Phoenix.

Come the final straight and Into The Unknown found the challenge too much, enabling Aldebaran Eve to peel off the leader’s back and run a 29.8 final quarter to win by 1.7m in a 2:00.6 mile rate.

“She’s a nice little filly, she’s getting better with every start and we said after the heat we just need a good draw, one would be nice and that’s what she got and that’s what won us the race.”

The win came as something of a surprise for the stable, with Sugars admitting this one had “probably been at the bottom of the list” of the Yabby Dams crew.

For owner Driscoll, it made victory all the sweeter.

“It’s quite a thrill,” he said. “A bit unexpected, because she was probably the least of the runners we have here tonight. It was a great drive by Greg and a wonderful training performance by Anton.”

 

 

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