Winning Horse: Mawaany Machine (Ire)

8yoG Teofilo (Ire) - Middle Persia (GB)(Dalakhani (Ire))

39 starts - 9 wins 6 seconds 4 thirds 2 fourths $461707

Other Wins

1st Pakenham Ecycle Solutions Hrdl (Bm120) 3200m (2021)

1st Warrnambool G Taylor Memorial Mdn Hrdl 3200m (2021)

1st Sunshine Coast Access Insulation Sun Cst-Bm90 2200m (2020)

1st Gold Coast Tab (Bm90) 2200m (2020)

1st Sandown-Lakeside Ladbrokes Info Hub Hcp 2100m (2019)

1st Ire - Leopardstown Tote October Handicap 2432m (2018)

1st Ire - Curragh Cross' Supervalu Handicap 2011m (2017)

1st Dundalk Aw Race Displays Maiden 2148m (2017)

Other Placings

3rd Sandown-Lakeside Ladbrokes Hrdl (Bm120) 3400m (2021)

3rd Sandown-Lakeside Ladbroke It Hrdl (Bm120) 3400m (2021)

3rd Flemington William Newton Vc Hcp 2600m (2021)

2nd Eagle Farm Events @ Brc Hcp (C6) 1830m (2020)

2nd Ire - Leopardstown Irish Stallion Farms Ebf 'Nasrullah' Handicap (Premier Handicap) 2011m (2018)

3rd Ire - Leopardstown Tote October Handicap 2432m (2017)

2nd Ire - Curragh Irish Stallion Farms Ebf 'Northfields' Handicap 2011m (2017)

2nd Ire - Galway Guinness Handicap 2414m (2017)

2nd Bath Bloor Homes Maiden Stakes 2344m (2016)

2nd Gb - Wolverhampton Aw Visit Wolverhampton-Racecourse.Co.Uk Maiden Stakes 2459m (2016)

Race Result:

1st: Mawanny Machine (/Ciaron Maher & Dave Eustace) - $2F

2nd: Eyes Are Blue (Aaron Kuru/Declan Maher) - $31
3rd: White Heath (Will Gordon/Tony Rosolini) - $6

Winning Time: 4:09.60 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: 2-1/4L x Nose

Winning Trainer: Ciaron Maher & Dave Eustace (rep by Declan Maher)

Five winners for the stable: “Hasn’t set in yet and probably won’t for a little while, but we couldn’t be prouder of everybody. The hard work they put in it is just unbelievable.

“Day in, day out everybody is there. You ask them to do something, they just go and do it. Just a super team.”

“I must also thanks Luke and Jamie again from Australian Bloodstock. This horse has had a fantastic prep, He’s just improving all the time and it is only his first season. He’s only going to get better and better.

“Great ride by Steve again, which we’ve become accustomed. Very proud.”

On Eyes Are Blue: “I’m rapt. Made the decision to roll forward on him today. He’s not the fastest animal out there but as Aaron just said, he gave him an absolute peach of a ride. He kept finding.”

Winning Jockey: Steven Pateman

That was super impressive: “I’ve always wanted to ride him over fences. He’s got a lot of scope. He was beautiful today. He got a bit of a knock on the leg from The Dominator at the third last so he’d had enough over the last two, but he deserves the win and got home.

“What an amazing achievement from Dec and Ciaron and Dave. I’m so proud of what they have done for the sport and Ciaron being an ex-jumps jockey makes it all the better. To be where he is now on the global racing stage, an ex-jumps jockey from Winslow, it’s amazing.”

“I wish there was a crowd here, but I’m sure it will be appreciated. What a team and what they are doing for the sport.

“It’s a shame they don’t have a runner in the next (Grand National Steeplechase) but the first lady of racing (Gai Waterhouse) does and so do we (Mapping).

They’ll be celebrating on home track: “Good on you boys, let’s do it again next year.”

On his own season: “At the start of the year I thought I was going to be in a lot of trouble and wouldn’t have many winners at all.

“I remember I rode a horse of Mussie’s (Eric Musgrove) at Terang in one of the first jumps races of the year and I had to waste hard and it ran fourth, and I realised just how much I loved doing it so I pushed on and what a year it has been.”