Weir on the board on Ballarat Cup day

Saturday 25 November 2017, 1:33pm

Hometown trainer Darren Weir received a little more satisfaction out of the win of Brugal Reward at Ballarat.

Weir retained a share in the winner of Saturday's Sam Miranda Handicap but says the result is more pleasing because of his association with longtime stable clients Boswald and Blonde Parker.

The trainer and the Parker brothers are part of a syndicate of owners of the four-year-old daughter of Reward For Effort, who took her prize money to $240,000 after Saturday's success.

"Jeremy (Rogers) and John Foote picked her out as a yearling and I'm always happy to take a share when they pick one out," Weir said.

"The Parker boys have been with me right from when I first took out my trainer's licence.

"I used to break in their horses when I was breaking in horses, that's how long we go back.

"They say it's easier to syndicate if I take a share in them so I'm happy to take five or 10 per cent.

"I try to sell as many as I can but you sometimes get left with a few."

Ridden by Ben Allen, Brugal Reward ($8.50) scored a half-length win over $3.80 favourite Royal Fashion, with Soho Ruby ($5.50) a neck further back in third.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »