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Sunshine Coast Guineas deserves bigger slice of prizemoney pie


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THE Sunshine Coast Guineas’ recent run of success looks in good hands with The Bostonian, who is poised to go onto greater honours next season.

The race has usurped its higher profile companions, the Caloundra Cup and Glasshouse, as the best race on this program.

Winx, of course, helped that status with her win in 2015, but either side of her, the race stacks up strongly. Before her, the multiple stakes winner Hopfgarten secured the race and in 2016 it was Tivaci, who went on to win the Group 1 All Aged Stakes.

Last year’s winner Crack Me Up kept the run going by claiming the Group 2 Villiers in December. Yet, prizemoney has not kept pace with the race’s growing stature.

The Guineas was worth just $125,000 on Saturday, compared to the $175,000 on offer for the Cup and Glasshouse.

Given the amount of publicity the race generates — again thanks to all of the Winx replays — it surely should be one race over the carnival earmarked for a higher standing.

REARDON ISN’T DONE YET
ALLAN Reardon completed his tenure as Queensland’s chief steward on Saturday at Caloundra but insists he still has more to offer the industry.

Reardon’s contract with QRIC expired on Saturday, with his chief steward role set to be taken by Singapore-based Peter Chadwick next month. Daniel Aurisch will act in the chair until Chadwick starts.

Reardon gave QRIC and Integrity Commissioner Ross Barnett an extraordinary roasting last month, effectively acting as his resignation letter from the Commission.

Last week at Doomben, the Brisbane Racing Club convened a testimonial for Reardon and made him an honorary member of the club — the first steward to receive such an accolade.

The function garnered a who’s who of stewards in Australia, with Ray Murrihy, Terry Bailey, Reid Sanders and Greg Rudolph flying in, along with many of his colleagues on the current Queensland panel.

Former colleagues Kim Kelly and Steve Railton sent messages of congratulations from Hong Kong.

“With due respect to the many great stewards I have worked with over the years, (Reardon) was the greatest reader of a race that I’ve ever encountered,” Kelly wrote.

“As a young cadet steward, it was something I aspired to. Queensland racing is poorer for Allan’s departure but richer for him having given so much over many years.”

Murrihy said he had known Reardon for more than 30 years and described Wednesday’s gatherings as the “Crème de la crème of stewards around Australia”.

“There’s a lot of stewards and ex-chairman of stewards in Queensland here today and we’ve all got a lot of admiration for what you’ve done and it’s been a great pleasure to come up and be part of the day,” Murrihy said.

“I thought there would be three people here,” Reardon said. “I’d like to thank you all for attending. It’s just been brilliant. I’ve had a good time being a steward, I still want to be a steward, I’m not sure where we go in our future, but I would still like to continue on in some way in the industry.”

MAGIC MILESTONE
WINTER Bride gave the Toby Edmonds’ stable its 100th winner for the season — a new best for the stable.

“We had 90 winners last year and set ourselves a goal to get to 100 this year and train five stakes winners,” Edmonds’ son Trent said. “We’ve got the 100 winners and trained eight stakes winners, so it’s been a good year.”

Winter Bride is likely to have another run or two before aiming up at stakes races during the Queensland summer carnival.

STANLEY HITS TARGET
JUSTIN Stanley came good on his pledge to ride a century of winners this season with a double at Mackay on Saturday.

After winning the inaugural Battle of the Bush Final on Mason’s Chance last Saturday, Stanley needed two wins to crack 100 winners.

He won on The Barmaid for Mason’s Chance’s trainer Olivia Cairns and then brought up the ton when Chivahdahlii won the Open Handicap.

In other jockey news Alannah Fancourt finished her apprenticeship on a winning note at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Fancourt was a late replacement for Baylee Northdurft on Academy Hill, who was able to win the Class 3. Fancourt’s indentures expired at midnight last night.

BIG RELIEF FOR BUTTON
STRANGE scenes, but a happy ending before the running of the Winter Sprinters Series Final.

The Tom Button-trained Uthred faltered going onto the track and looked as if he had suffered a catastrophic injury to his front leg. The dreaded green screen was even produced in an ominous sign.

Button was with the horse when vets were about to sedate him to get him from the track.

“But when they produced the needle to sedate him, it was like it woke him up,” Button said. “He must have just bumped it and that’s why he looked the way he did.”

Button said after returning to the stables, all was fine with Uthred.

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