Flaming Flutter in full flight for Greg Sugars.
Dual Inter Dominion placegetter Flaming Flutter will be chasing back-to-back Own the Moment Trots Country Championship wins on Friday night at Bendigo.
The last-start Group 3 Terang Co-Op Pacing Cup winner backs up six nights after his south-west Victorian success, lining up in the Group 2 PETstock Bendigo Pacing Cup at Lord’s Raceway.
Trained by Geoff Webster, the seven-year-old entire stayed in Western Australia after contesting December’s Inter Dominion at Gloucester Park before returning to Webster’s Bannockburn property in late January.
He rated 1:56.4 to win the Terang Cup, overhauling My Kiwi Mate up the straight for reinsman Greg Sugars.
Sugars will pilot Flaming Flutter from barrier 11 on Friday night, with My Kiwi Mate forced to overcome the extreme barrier 12 in the $60,000 feature event.
Bolinda gelding Stunning Grin has pulled the pole for trainer Vince Vallelonga, while gun six-year-old Messini will be trying to turn his form around from a positive gate, two, after a luckless Summer of Glory campaign.
Star seven-year-old Guaranteed is second-up into the Bendigo Cup after a down-the-track finish in the Hunter Cup. That was his first run in over two months.
Maximan conquered Miracle Mile champion Have Faith In Me last time out in the Bertocchi Free-for-All at Melton on Hunter Cup night and will start from gate seven at Bendigo, while country cups specialist Im Corzin Terror has drawn inside the back row.
Adam Cartwright takes strong form into the race following a career-best fourth in the Hunter Cup for South Australian trainer Greg Norman.
The remaining runners in what looks a strong Cup field are It Is Billy, Hotasel, Smudge Bromac and Milly Perez.
Meanwhile, recent Great Southern Star champion Glenferrie Typhoon will be chasing successive Group 1 wins in the Aldebaran Park Maori Mile for husband and wife trainer/driver team Andy and Kate Gath.
In fact Glenferrie Typhoon will also be out to make it two straight wins in the Bendigo feature after snaring the 2016 version. The classy seven-year-old, who boasts plenty of gate speed, struck gold at the barrier draw and will come out of gate two.
Sit-sprinter Sunny Ruby joins the Sonya Smith camp at Melton and has drawn barrier four for the $50,000 Mile, while gun trotter Super Zeck resumes for Darren Cole and John Caldow inside the back row, one slot inside of Prince Fearless, who transfers from the Mark Purdon All Stars camp to Riddells Creek’s Nicole Molander.
Savannah Jay Jay, Illawong Helios, Matthew Craven trained stablemates El Paco and Uncas, K D Muscles (a stablemate of Glenferrie Typhoon), Vincennes (emergency) and Daryl Boko round out the field.
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