Winning Horse: Dunmam (Aus)

6yoG Dundeel (NZ) - Mamahuhu (Aus)(Flying Spur (Aus))

18 starts - 3 wins 3 seconds 1 third 2 fourths $129825

Other Wins

1st Sandown-Hillside Long Fine Plate 2400m (2019)

1st Geelong Hyland Race Colours Mdn Plate 1700m (2019)

Other Placings

2nd Ballarat Synthetic Sportsbets Power Play (Bm58) 2100m (2019)

2nd Benalla Royal Hotel Benalla Mdn Plate 1606m (2019)

2nd Ballarat Suez Mdn Plate 1400m (2018)

3rd Ballarat Evergreen Turf Mdn Plate 1400m (2018) (Debut Run)

Race Result:

1st: Dunmam (Harry Coffey/Ciaron Maher & David Eustace) - $21

2nd: Almsgiver (Damian Oliver/Matthew Williams) - $12
3rd: Serenade The Stars (Will Price/Eric Musgrove) - $101

Winning Time: 2:13.38 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: 1¼L x 1¾L

Winning Trainer: Ciaron Maher & David Eustace (Ciaron Maher speaking)

“Lovely ride by Harry. He’s been mixing his form or looking to find his form for a little while, this horse. He’s been doing some hurdle schooling and that must have really brought him on.

“He’s a hard horse to read and I wasn’t over confident. Harry, he saved a lot of ground and followed Ollie through and that was the winning move.”

Tactics: “I left up to Harry but down the back he was tacking up and in his last run I think he was about 20 lengths behind the last horse. He’s a funny horse but he was right today.”

On Bit Of A Lad: “He’s ok. I just thought being first-up and after the Brierly and he’s got bigger fish to fry later in the year.”

Winning Jockey: Harry Coffey

“The plan was to follow the whole field and have him finishing strong and keep in touch. But he took me by surprise and traveled well. I landed in a nice spot.

“I wasn’t that keen on the inside but I saw the ‘greatest of all time’ go there and I thought I’ll follow him because if I get back and they’re not happy with me I can say that if I can’t follow Damien Oliver, who can I follow?

“When Ollie was down there I followed him through and I was traveling really well. I noticed Ollie was doing it as well, we were really hard up on the rail and it worked a treat.”

Sort of what Oliver said after the line: “You’re a little bastard sometimes.”

“His ride was a gem and I had nothing to lose so so why wouldn’t you follow him.

“By golly the horse is in for a good prep if he goes like that.”