Promising Kiwi filly Elsie May broke through for her first victory for trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace in the Tobin Brothers Celebrating Lives Handicap (1600m) at Sandown on Wednesday under a determined Luke Campbell ride.
Kicking off a new campaign at Caulfield on Saturday after four months off the scene, highly promising New Zealand-bred gelding St Lawrence wasted no time in making his mark.
Unusual Culture continued her march through the grades after the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained mare scored her fourth win of the preparation at Flemington on Saturday when taking out the David Bourke.
Apprentice jockey Wiremu Pinn displayed his supreme talent at Sandown on Saturday, notching his first metropolitan winner in Australia before going on to post a treble.
Sandown has brought the very best out of New Zealand-bred mare Unusual Culture this autumn, and that formula proved to be a winner again in Saturday’s JRA Handicap (1600m) on the Hillside track.
If Ciaron Maher and David Eustace need any more evidence of Jacob Lowry’s riding ability, they can just watch his efforts to win Saturday’s Listed Easter Cup (1600m) at Riccarton aboard Times Ticking.