Dancing In The Sky out of gate number 2 in the DJW and Wells Ventilation Cobar Picnic Cup Race 6 on Saturday. Towards the later stages of the 1,700m race, Blewitt gave her free rein and Dancing In The Sky took off to win by nearly four lengths from Valadyium with Eaglesaurus finishing further back in third place.
Local trainer Wayne Prisk has now won the two feature races for 2024 at Cobar with the same horse, Dancing In The Sky.
Nyssa Burrells travelled from the southern highlands in June to win the WesTrac Cobar Cup on Dancing In The Sky and on Saturday, the Narromine-based Ricky Blewitt was the winning jockey in the DJW and Wells Ventilation Cobar Picnic Cup.
Making the Cup win even more special on Saturday, Prisk landed a winning treble for the day with his other winners being Parnassus and Rylstone Rocket.
This was a popular achievement as Prisk is a great supporter of western area racing, regularly travelling long distances to start big teams at meetings.
Penique set the early pace in the 1,700 metres Picnic Cup until Dancing In The Sky took over at the 1,200 metres and proceeded to make the race a one act affair.
Owned by Prisk and Butch Eves, Dancing In The Sky (Blewitt, $3.50) won by nearly four lengths from Valadyium (Leandro Ribeiro, $3.20 favourite) and Eaglesaurus (Eloise Drews, $5.50).
Rylstone Rocket ($10) is also raced by Prisk and Eves and with Gilgandra-based Zara Lewis in the saddle came from fourth to beat Mista Sock (Todd Bailey, $7) and Oojah Capow (Blewitt, $2.30 favourite) in the 1,400 metres Sullivans Mining and Industrial Class B Handicap.
Part owned by the trainer’s son Geoff Prisk, Parnassus (Deborah Barton, $5) gave a taste of the good things to come for the stable when sweeping around the field to beat the leader La Magia (Izzy Neale, $2.20 favourite) and Kitty’s Pledge (Lewis, $13) to win the opening event, the 1,000 metres Cobar Cranes and Tyre Doctor Maiden Plate.
For Barton this was her second career winner, the first being on Anymarg’illdo at Bligh Picnics.
Prisk went close to four winners at Cobar as A Tender Lady (Lewis, $7) led by a big margin in the 1,000 metres THE Stabilising and Geosecure Class B Handicap however was overhauled and beaten a half length by the Michael Plummer, Narromine-trained Northern Excel (Neale, $5) with Wabrami (Bailey, $2.80 favourite) a close third.
Lewis brought up a Cobar double when the Ashley Gibson, Gilgandra-trained Alaskan Aura ($6) raced handy to the lead before kicking clear from Blackhill Kitty (Bailey, $8) and Bush Warrior (Neale, $7) in the 1,400 metres Nutrien Russell-Picnic Championship Preview Trophy Handicap.
Premiership winning trainer Connie Greig dominated the 1,200 metres Cynend Building and Construction Trophy Handicap with the first three place getters in the nine horse field.
Ridden by John Wilson, Celtic Harp ($5.50) finished well to beat stablemates Benyatta (Drews, $7) and the heavily supported Allande (Ribeiro, $3.50 to $2.30 favourite ).—Colin Hodges
