Hume Cup Final

The son of Collide and Brandeen Lee was one of many chances as the field jammed down the back straight, and showed his strong finishing burst to defeat Karanji ($22.70) by three quarters of a length in 34.74, with Stack ‘Em Flat ($7.70) rounding out the placings, finishing a further neck away. Favourite McDoom ($2.30) finished fourth.

Trained by Rodney Clark, Shintaro Samurai had placed in 40 of his 63 starts prior to his Group 2 success, highlighting his consistency. The black chaser was purchased for only $1400 as a pup, and has now won over $100,000 in prizemoney.

The other feature of the night – the Radio Sport National Silver Bullet – was taken out by the brilliant Shereen Bale, leading from go to whoa to score in an outstanding 29.87 over 525 metres.

The daughter of Over Flo – who is also the sire of Group 1 Sky Racing TOPGUN winner Allen Harper – recorded brilliant sectionals of 5.03 and 17.75 to set up the seven and a half length romp. Race favourite Rewind ($2.30) ran second, with Strong Intention finishing third.

Shereen Bale’s victory caps off an amazing fortnight of racing at The Meadows for master trainer Graeme Bate and owner Paul Wheeler. The white and brindle chaser improved her record to 18 wins from 44 starts, and has now won over $160,000 in prizemoney.

After the placings the field finished in the following order 4th McDoom ($2.30), 5th Lektra Jay ($4.40), 6th Premier Boloney ($5.20) 7th Stetson Lily ($28.10) and Dyna Max ($18.00).

Shintaro Samurai is Black dog whelped December ’08 he is raced by the Late Night Poker Syndicate and is trained by Rodney Clark at Toolleen. Shintaro Samurai is by Collide from Brandeen Lee (November Fury x Brandeen Rose). The Group 2 Hume Cup win took his record to 64 starts for 17 wins and 24 placings and prizemoney earnings of $101,835.

The Hume Cup was initially called the Lord’s Mayors Cup and was first run over 675 yards at North Melbourne in 1960, it moved with the club to Olympic Park and in 1964 became the Lord Mayors Trophy and remained a sprint race until 1988. It then became a distance event until 1994 when it was discontinued. The MGRA due to the tremendous support they are given by the Hume City Council resurrected the feature in 2000 calling the race the Hume Cup. In another change to the event last year it was conducted over 600 metres for the first time and that will remain the distance in the foreseeable future. Listed below are the past winners.

    

1960 Fair’s Orders, 1961 Rustling Breeze, 1962 Tree Lover, 1963 Diropace, 1964 Rocket Streak, 1965 Cheltenham Lass, 1966 Munich Boy,1967 Bold Charmer, 1968 Fawn Waters, 1969 Dashing Phantom, 1970 Mayo Gold, 1971 Banca, 1972 Flying Stage, 1973 Half Your Luck, 1974 Temlee, 1975 Plain Winnie, 1976 Matireka, 1977 Shelley O’Reilly, 1978 Manteca Boy, 1979 Shane’s Level, 1980 Vibrant King, 1981 Striding Ahead, 1982 Durante Lad, 1983 Castle Ridge, 1984 National Poppy, 1985 Rumpus Pappa, 1986 I’m Nugget, 1987 Swift Laser, 1988 Regal Kid, 1989 Blue Speed, 1990 Interest Only, 1991 Modern Express, 1992 Modern Express, 1993 Saltwater Sid, 2000 Mr. Boswell, 2001 Bentley Babe,2002 Tears Of Jupiter, 2003 Oh Behave and 2004 Triple Trio   2005 Jacarrest, 2006 Sargent Major, 2007 Technoman, 2008 Fallen Zorro, 2009 Amity Bale and 2010 Flash of Light.