06 May 2024 | Ashleigh Paikos
Seven-year-old Blockjorg brought up her 13th career success on Saturday May 4 at Bunbury when she took out the feature of the night, the $11,000 Dash For Cash over the 1140m sprint trip for trainer Colin Reeves.
Driven by Emily Suvaljko, Blockjorg was having her 121st start in a race, and with her earnings now just shy of $180,000, the daughter of Hes Watching broke a 15-start losing sequence, settling behind the leader Jingling Jewels and making full use of the sprint lane in the home straight to win by 4.4m.
It was an unlikely treble for the Reeves family with Hayden Reeves getting the win in race two with Maddy Maddy coming from well back in the filed to win by 2.4m for driver Stuart McDonald.
It was a great night out for Stuart McDonald who prepared a training double on the night as well as a driving treble, with his training festivities kicking off in race three with Madam Publisher NZ, straight into race four with The State Of Art NZ.
Eight-year-old Maisie Reeves started off the front marker in the second Pony Trot race of the night, and after leading all the way won comfortably on Shes A Lucky Pepper, giving the Reeves family a great night out.
The first of the Pony Trot races delivered an exciting finish, with Brooke Strachan and Ultimate Blaze taking the win by a nose on the line of Alex Russell and Dinozzo.
Alex Russell has officially graduated from Pony Trots with the wind-up of the South West Pony Trots season for 2023/24.
Lucas Suvaljko walked away with highest point winner for the season, coming out on top by the smallest of margins over Brooke Strachan.
South West Pony Trots will return for their next season in October, with Collie likely to be the opener for their season.
Chris Voak equalled Stuart McDonald for driving honours with a treble in the cart, with Caberneigh bringing up his first win on debut in the first at Bunbury.
Trained by Barry Howlett, the stable prepared a book end double on the night with the very vocal Linebacker NZ taking out race seven.
The five-year-old stallion made his return for this preparation in April and has made it two wins from just three starts this time in.
Giles Inwood and Chris Voak joined forces in race six on the card, the standing start event over the 2503m with the five-year-old starting front the front-line handicap and even after racing roughly at release point, soon got back down in his gear to lead all the way to claim his first in Australia at just start two.
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