Canadian Joy looked home, but stable mate, Street Stall, rigorously ridden by Phillip Wolfgram, edged out the grey gelding on the line in the class 5 1,000 metre event at Toowoomba. “It’s great to get the quinella,” trainer Neville Saunders commented after the race. “In a way it is the right result. Canadian Joy remains at class three level, and there is an ideal race for him on Weetwood day.’
It was Street Stall’s third win in his last five starts, bringing his career win tally to six. Street Stall is a half brother to Group 2 Light Fingers winner Street Smart. Last season Street Smart foaled a Street Cry colt. “He’s a really nice type,” explained Lauriston’s bloodstock manager, Paul Eden. “I am really looking forward to presenting him at the 2012 yearling sales.”
Veteran Sequallan won the fourth at Echuca on Cup Day. After disappointing, over 1,200 metres at Mornington, trainer Ricky Maund gave the gelding a two week freshen before presenting him in the 1,000 metre race. Dean Yendall box seated the gelding and he took a run along the rail after glimpsing an opportunity inside the fading leader, Produced. Sequallan put his head out on the line and won in a photo from the fast finishing Kenny Kid. “It was a terrific ride by Dean Yendall” reported Ricky Maund who was interstate looking after his charges due to run at Adelaide on the following day. The win took Sequallan’s tally to 14, 11 of them at 1,000 metres.
