It’s hard to describe the win of a $12 third favourite as an upset but that is what consistent mare Bold Belle landed when she led all the way at Trentham over 1100m on Saturday.
“They were only at the trials for the run, but Puntura is a naturally big, strong galloper so we expected him to do that. He’s come through the trial well, so onwards and upwards to Saturday."
One Bold Cat took his promising career to a new level in Saturday’s Gr.3 Counties Cup (2100m) at Pukekohe, delivering a third feature prize of the month for Robbie Patterson.
Grangewilliam Stud’s stallion The Bold One recorded his first stakes winner when Bold Mac took a well-deserved tenacious victory in the Listed Rowley Mile (1600m) on Thursday at Hawkesbury.