Last Saturday Shepparton hosted an elite race night headlined by the $50 000 Group 2 Neatline Homes Shepparton Gold Cup (2690m) where five year old Tanabi Bromac backed up his last start win in the Horsham Cup with another heroic group victory.
The winning Live Or Die gelding trained by Keith Cotchin started at odds of $5.10 and defeated Cincinnati Kid ($6.10) by four metres with Geoff Webster’s Tear It All Away ($18) a head back in third.
Karloo Mick, the $3.60 favourite, could only manage fourth place despite unleashing a powerful run in the third quarter on the outside.
Tanabi Bromac, driven by star reinsman Gavin Lang, was the outside leader after starting from barrier four, then in the final lap at the 1800m mark he moved up to front-runner Jackson Grant before snaring the lead on the last turn.
Jackson Grant eased off in the final straight coming in seventh.
The victory was Tanabi Bromac’s 17th win from his 40 career starts and brought his lifetime stakes earnings to $339 040.
Tanabi Bromac is now heading towards the prestigious $400 000 BIG6 Hunter Cup at Moonee Valley on February 6 after twice winning races that exempt him from ballot for the prestigious feature.
The other two feature pacing events of the night were the $25 000 Listed The Lombo 2YO Finals (1609m). The Fillies Final ran first and was taken out by Radical Calza while Our Ponzi claimed victory in the Colts & Geldings The Lombo.
2010 Shepparton Cup Results:
Placing |
Horse |
Prizemoney |
Row & Br. |
Trainer |
Driver |
Margin (m) |
| 1 |
TANABI BROMAC |
$33 750 | Fr4 | K P Cotchin | G Lang | - |
| 2 |
CINCINNATI KID (NZ) |
$7 500 | Fr5 | M Peace | M Peace | 4.00 |
| 3 |
TEAR IT ALL AWAY |
$5 000 | Fr2 | G F Webster | C T Demmler | 4.10 |
| 4 |
KARLOO MICK |
$2 500 | Fr1 | B J Lew | G W Bennett | 5.20 |
| 5 |
OHOKA NEVADA (NZ) |
$1 250 | Fr3 | A L Peacock | D R Wilson | 5.70 |
| 6 |
POWER OF TARA (NZ) |
- | Fr1 | A L Peacock | N R Jack | 7.00 |
| 7 |
JACKSON GRANT |
- | Fr6 | I C Wilson | K E Manning | 8.30 |
| 8 |
MISTER SWINGER |
- | Fr2 | G F Webster | G F Webster | 9.00 |
| 9 |
BALTIC ICE |
- | Fr4 | G P Freeman | J N Quinlan | 9.00 |
| 10 |
SHARDONS ROCKET (NZ) |
- | Fr1 | G A Campbell | G A Campbell | 11.30 |
| 11 |
I AM SAM |
- | Fr2 | A R Tubbs | A E Tubbs | 13.70 |
| 12 |
BROADWAY PLAY |
- | Fr3 | S R McLean | C A Alford | 40.70 |
| Scratched: | ||||||
| NOTASWETHORT (NZ) |
