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Sharing in the success with Mr. Classical were owners Mr and Mrs Bill Riches and Mr and Mrs Philip Green. Green, who is also in the ownership of Trevor Clarke Steeple and Ian Macdonald Steeple winner Kaisersosa and Australian Steeple winner Millennium Dancer, is the leading TROA owner this season with 26 wins. Brideoake has also won several flat races for Green with horses such as Raven Protector, Major Woody and Froth And Bubble. Mr. Classical, a Flemington 1800m winner as a three-year-old, hadn’t won for over three years when he was successful in the Gippsland Grand National Hurdle at Moe in May, 2001. But the Greig eight-year-old showed he was still capable with an encouraging fourth behind stablemate Millennium Dancer in the Australian Steeple at Sandown last month. Brideoake backed Mr. Classical up quickly at the Valley after his sixth to Our Bijou in the Crisp Steeple at Flemington four days earlier and, ridden by cross country jockey Brad McLean, he led all the way to account for race favourite Surf with Hadawine a well-held third. Trainer Tony Noonan was in Dubai on the way back from a holiday in England when promising filly Cascade Emerald scored an impressive win in the Super Vobis Pedro’s Pride Handicap (1000m). The two-year-old daughter of Hurricane Sky is the only horse Noonan prepares for Karreman Racing Pty Ltd. Dick Karreman owns The Oaks Stud in New Zealand and several horses with the Bevan Laming stable including smart steeplechaser Mookta Heights. Ridden by Brett Prebble, Cascade Emerald raced away from race favourite Mochachino to score by five lengths but veered out sharply in the closing stages. Rainbow Dancer was four lengths away third. “Brett said she’s still as green as grass,” said Rod Douglas, stable foreman for Noonan. “She’s tough and will get further, but is still learning. We trialed her in blinkers last week but she revved up so we decided not to put them on today.“ Cascade Emerald is now likely to have a short break before being prepared for three-year-old fillies events early in the new season. Fresh from the all-the-way win of Team Heritage in the Grand National Hurdle four days previous, the John Leek Junior stable landed Grosvenaire a winner in the Blondeau Handicap (3000m). Leek races the six-year-old daughter of Grosvenor with Michael Hibbert and Marilyn Yates. Hibbert, who stands stallions Align and Kashani at his Highview Stud in New Zealand, bred champion Let’s Elope and Richfield Lady and raced Sydney Cup winner Just A Dancer and The BMW winner Kaaptive Edition. He bred Grosvenaire out of his Hasty Cloud mare Curved Air. “I forgot I had her,” Hibbert said. But when business partner Brent Gillovic rang from the stud asking what he wanted to do with her, Hibbert decided to send her to Leek. “I’ve had horses with John for 15 years,” Hibbert said. One of them Winter Robin set a course record in winning a 3000m race at Moonee Valley and won the Great Southern Steeple at Mornington in 1995, while Arranger Star was runner-up in the 1994 Tasmanian Derby. With jockey Danny Nikolic indisposed with an ankle injury, Michael Walker took the mount and, after biding his time back in the field, made a forward move 1600m from home to sit outside the leader. The topweight led around the home turn and held on well to score comfortably from Nicholas with Topzoff third. Walker made it a running double when he piloted Echuca Beauty who finished powerfully to take out the Super Vobis Strasbourg Handicap (1000m). Echuca Beauty is prepared at Echuca by Gwenda Johnstone who was ill and unable to attend the meeting. Her husband, jockey Mick Johnstone saddled up the Shovhog filly who had raced at the Valley three times previous for two seconds and a fourth placing. A $5,000 yearling sale purchase in Melbourne, Echuca Beauty is raced on lease by Gwenda Johnstone and a group of nine people from the Echuca area. Moama landscape gardener Troy Murphy said he and the other eight were all originally hailed from Mathoura, a New South Wales town situated between Echuca and Deniliquin. Echuca Beauty, a drifting favourite, scored comfortably from race leader Noble Creation with Tuscanna third, boosting the three-year-old’s record to four wins and two seconds from 10 starts. Trainer Niall Phillips and owner George Draper landed their first metropolitan winners when Aussie Loti won the Airmond Handicap (1200m). Irishman Phillips is the brother of Dave Phillips who is well known to Australians as the travelling foreman for Dermot Weld when Vintage Crop (1993) and Media Puzzle (2002) won Melbourne Cups. Phillips has been training at Geelong for three years and had previously had city placings with Aussie Loti, Cedar Springs and Candy Cores from five runners on other city tracks. “I thought we’d try here,“ he said. Phillips has had a good run on country tracks over the past three months with 12 winners. “Every horse I’ve raced this year has won bar one,“ he said. Phillips has 12 horses in work but would like to build that number up to 18. “Eighteen would be just a nice number,” he said. Draper, an Irishman who has lived in Australia for most of his life, combined Aussie with Loti (Look after the Irish) to come up with name for the four-year-old Spartacus mare. He paid $13,000 for Aussie Loti who has now won six races and placed on another five occasions from 15 starts. Ridden by apprentice Chris Symons, Aussie Loti survived a protest from apprentice Blake Shinn, rider of runner-up Schlarppa, alleging interference near the 200m. Mit And Mot, who hit the front three out in the straight, died on his run to finish a close third. Talented three-year-old Nedrullah gave Mount Gambier trainer Ricky Bruhn his first Melbourne success in two years when he romped home in the Super Vobis Gogong Handicap (1528m). Bruhn, who scaled down his operation two years ago when he sold most of his horses, is in the process of rebuilding his team. He currently has six horses in work. Nedrullah, by Keltrice out of the Brave Salute mare Sparkling Salute, was bred by the Bruhn family. The handsome chestnut gelding made it four straight wins following successes at Warracknabeal, Swan Hill and Horsham and he hasn’t finished further back than second in any of his six starts. Older sister Akiva has also been in good form for Bruhn winning two in a row at Victoria Park in June. Nadrullah’s next start will be in the $50,000 NDRA/VRC Silver Bowl Series Final (1600m) at Flemington on July 21. Bruhn’s hadn’t won in Melbourne since Moella saluted at Sandown on June 1, 2002. Ridden by apprentice Anthony Darmanin, Nedrullah raced away to beat Coco Jamaica with La Estancia third. Kilmore trainer Lee Hope is looking to the $50,000 Mildura Cup (1400m) later this month for Hardy Steele after he made it two straight wins in the Blue Kazan Handicap (1528m). The Dieu D’Or four-year-old is raced by the Katandra Agriculture Pty Ltd Syndicate managed by Adrian Harvey who is based at Gunbar, north of Hay in New South Wales and runs a feed lot comprising grain-fed beef. Hardy Steele, a very cheap buy at a mixed sale in Melbourne, won four races at Sandown earlier in his career but hadn’t won since August last year. Hope took him to Ballarat for a confidence boosting win over his favourite 1400m trip last month, Five of the gelding’s seven wins have been at 1400m. “He’s a very good 1400 metre horse and he’ll now head to Mildura,” Hope said. Ridden by Hope’s stepson, talented apprentice Blake Shinn, Hardy Steele was sent out favourite and, despite being taken on mid-race, fought on gallantly to narrowly hold out Gaju Chief with Shellshocked a close third. Shinn made it a running double when La Flor D’Luna, prepared at Seymour by David “Butch” Bourne raced handy throughout to win the Logician Handicap (2040m). Bourne explained that La Flor D’Luna, a winner of four races in New Zealand, was acquired as a replacement for stayer Russian Defence who had been brought from New Zealand with the intention of winning a Melbourne Cup but went amiss. Danny O’Brien, who previously had part-owned the smart John Meagher-trained mare Cannyanna, races La Flor D’Luna with Andre Agterhuis of Ballarat, Richard Martin of Cairns, Peter Stewart, Sandy McGregor and well known veterinarian Dr John Van Veenandaal. The Casual Lies six-year-old, who won her first Australian race at Geelong in September last year, ran second to Magic Tumbler over 1700m at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day last year. But she had not raced beyond that trip until tackling the Valley race. However she showed plenty of grit under pressure to hold out Rubadub Red and dead heaters Infinity and Stark Touch. HORSES TO FOLLOW: Cascade Emerald spaced her rivals and should win better races. Nedrullah had no trouble making it four straight and can continue on his winning way. Gaju Chief put in an encouraging second-up performance to go down by a nose to Hardy Steele and should be worth following when he gets over longer trips. Tough staying effort by Grosvenaire to carry 58kg to victory and there should be more wins in store for her. Majestic Minx got back but was closing nicely, albeit well beaten, when fourth to the promising Cascade Emerald. 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