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Boom pacer Extreme Sea is bound for some much bigger assignments later in the season after his demolition job on the Metropolitan Regional Championship Final at Menangle on Saturday night.
llowed to settle back in the field early from a second row draw, driver Brad Hewitt made his move coming into the final lap and once in front Extreme Sea never looked in doubt.
The four-year-old strode away from his opposition with Hewitt sitting quietly in the gig, spanking his rivals by 26 metres and clocking 2:41.2 for the 2300m journey in the $1000,000 Listed Classic.
The David Hewitt-trained gelding has now won six times from just nine starts and will be a raging favourite for new week's $100,000 state final of the regional championship series.
Extreme Sea will have bigger assignments on the horizon having already secured a slot in September's Eureka while the Rising Sun in Brisbane over the winter is also a possible target.
It was a good night for the Hewitt camp with Taipo, trained and driven by Brad, scoring a narrow win on the Menangle program after kicking off his campaign with back to-back placings.
In Victoria classy mare Ladies In Red also booked a trip to Queensland in July when she returned to the winners' list in the Richmond Lass Free For All at Melton.
Having her first outing since being gunned in the closing stages of the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Mile in Sydney, Ladies In Red raced wide early before working her way to the front and going on to score by 3.4m over Rakero Rebel for her 15th victory in 19 appearances at Melton.
Ladies in Red has raced just once in Brisbane for a win in the 2022 Rising Sun but is expected to head to Queensland again for the Constellations carnival where the Group 1 Golden Girl would be her main target.
In the west another girl with an imposing strike rate proved the headline act when Water Lou overcame a tough run to show her class and win the G3 Diamond Classic for three-year-old fillies at Gloucester Park on Friday.
Trained by Mike Reed, Water Lou copped a tricky draw on the inside of the back row and settled on the leader's back before easing away from the pegs with a lap to go.
She was then caught up in traffic and had to come four wide to find clear air but let rip to hit the front on the home turn and tough out a terrific 2.4 metre win over Miss Hepburn.
The win was Water Lou's 16th success from just 20 starts.
