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Dash For Cash makes it four straight days

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Swettenham Stud sire Dash For Cash (Secret Savings – Gulistan, by Rubiton) continued his perfect start to the season when Rhiannon’s Joy (Dash For Cash – Composure, by Flying Spur) won at Bendigo on Thursday.

Rhiannon’s Joy completed a win for Dash For Cash on all four days of the new season. The 2002 Group 1 Australian Guineas winner is the only stallion to achieve the feat in 2011/12.

Dash For Cash has produced three of his season’s winners in Victoria. The sire’s other winner was at Balaklava in South Australia.

Meanwhile, former Arrowfield Stud shuttle sire Falbrav (Fairy King – Gift Of The Night, by Slewpy) was among the winners with a double on Thursday.

The Mark Kavanagh-trained Faltastic (Falbrav – Amanusa, by Alzao) started Falbrav’s winning day with his success in the Hindsight Club Raceday Maiden Plate (1400m) at Bendigo.

Faltastic is a four-year-old three-quarter brother to the Group 2 winner, now successful sire, Delzao (Encosta De Lago – Amanusa, by Alzao). Both Faltastic and Delzao were bred on the Fairy King / Alzao cross.

A son of Falbrav also took out the biggest purse on offer on Thursday when Brave The Way (Falbrav – La Belle Diamante, by Zabeel) claimed the $70,000 Coffs Harbour Cup (1600m) for the Alan Bailey stable.

Diva’s daughter unplaced on debut

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Makybe Diva’s (Desert King – Tugela, by Riverman) second foal to race, La Dolce Diva (Fusaichi Pegasus – Makybe Diva, by Desert King), beat only two runners home in her debut at Thursday’s Geelong Synthetic meeting.

La Dolce Diva settled back before making no impression over the 1200-metre trip. The filly finished 9.7 lengths from the winner, the Matthew Hyland-trained Tully Plenty (Tully Zeal – Billie’s Dream, by Rory’s Jester).

La Dolce Diva’s trainer Mark Kavanagh paid $1.2 million for the chestnut at last year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. Danny O’Brien went to $1.5 million to secure Makybe Diva’s first foal Rockstardom (Galileo – Makybe Diva, by Desert King).

Rockstardom has two third placings to show from seven starts.

Meanwhile, another relation to a top class racehorse made a winning debut at Gosford on Thursday.

Hay List's little brother scored on debut at Gosford

Hay List's little brother scored on debut at Gosford

Sound Of The Ocean (Delzao – Sing Hallelujah, by Is It True), a half-brother to dual Group 1 winner Hay List (Statue Of Liberty – Sing Hallelujah, by Is It True), scored a game win in the Schweppes Maiden Plate (1100m).

Sound Of The Ocean took out the $16,000 race for Hay List’s owners, the Davenport family, and the powerhouse sprinter’s trainer John McNair.

Sound Of The Ocean provided half of a Thursday double for Manner Lodge stallion Delzao (Encosta De Lago – Amanusa, by Alzao). Highly Explosive (Delzao – Smashing Atom, by Geiger Counter) took out The Border Watch Maiden Plate (1700m) at Penola in South Australia.