A huge crowd of revellers and punters enjoyed perfect weather at last during Boxing Day’s Community Cups race day at Bowraville Racecourse last Monday.
With the meeting clashing with fixtures at Ballina and Wauchope, the fields for Boxing Day were small but this did not seem to detract from anyone’s enjoyment of the day and even a two-horse race provided excitement when Armidale gelding Kesari King beat Coffs Harbour mare Amen’s Spirit by a head in the 1,370m Bernard Laverty Funerals Nambucca Valley Maiden Cup after the duo raced side by side for the entire race.
That win gave Coffs jockey Stephen Traecey the second leg of a winning double after he had won the 2,200m Nambucca Heads RSL Nambucca Heads Class 2 Cup aboard Coffs stayer Indoshadow in the previous race.
Taree apprentice Matthew McGuren also rode a winning double with his first leg being a local
victory on the Shannon Fry-trained gelding Magnetic Leeway, which raced away with the 1,000m Macksville Conveyancing Valla Beach Maiden Cup. McGuren then partnered Armidale gelding Cabriole to an easy win in the 1,370m Mike Moran Valuations Benchmark 50 Macksville Cup.
The other winner on the day was Coffs Harbour mare Moveover Target, which was handled perfectly by apprentice rider Codie McPherson in a very tight win over favourite Star of Filante in the 1,000m Beaurepaires Macksville Benchmark 45 Scotts Head Cup.
Racing returns to Bowraville on Saturday January 28.
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