Winning Horse: Team Captain (Ire)

5yoG Galileo (Ire) - Remember When (Ire)(Danehill Dancer (Ire))

23 starts - 6 wins 4 seconds 3 thirds 4 fourths $249080

Other Wins

1st Hamilton Hamilton Cup 2200m (2021)

1st Swan Hill Pooles Accountants (Bm70) 2400m (2021)

1st Sandown-Hillside Mrc Foundation (Bm78) 2400m (2020)

1st Swan Hill Tasco Petroleum Think Big-Bm64 2400m (2020)

1st Wangaratta Beteasy Mdn Plate 2000m (2019)

Other Placings

2nd Caulfield Here For The Horses (Bm78) 2400m (2021)

3rd Flemington Seppelt Drumborg Trophy (Bm78) 2000m (2021)

2nd Geelong Beach Hotel Jan Juc (Bm64) 2460m (2020)

2nd Geelong Coulter Roache (Bm58) 2440m (2020)

3rd Ballarat Hygain Winners Choice (Bm64) 2000m (2020)

2nd Benalla Ca Sinclair Pork Wholesale Mdn 2046m (2019)

3rd Sale Ladbrokes Same Game Multi Mdn 1623m (2019) (Debut Run)

Race Result:

1st: Team Captain (B McDougall/M Cumani) - $7

2nd: Accountability (D Oliver/C Waller) - $5
3rd: Good Idea (N Rawiller/P Stokes) - $16

Winning Time: 2:56.79 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: 3¼L x ½L

Winning Trainer: Matt Cumani

Two-for-two with the stable: “And really impressive ones at that and on the bigger stage. I’ve great to have a winner on Cup Day and particularly for a huge group of owners.

“I think there’s a couple of thousand people in this horse. I think there’s a few shares available for $200. You can’t fail with a horse like him and I think he’s going to get better and better.

“These people, they have a small share now and they might develop into better owners.

“It was a bit of a frustrating morning but I always thought that this might be my winner for the day and fantastic to see him go so well.

“He’s a lovely horse and he suits our style of training. Good form for the previous stable and I think they did well with him. He’s a horse that’s still got a future.

“He’s from the family of Dylan Thomas, out and out stayers and we saw the way he finished off today, he finished off beautifully but I think you could even push him forward a bit more, do a little bit more with him and he’d win by further.

“He’s the sort of horse, dare I say it, maybe twelve months time he might be back here on the same day.”

What’s next: “Something like the Pakenham Cup.”

Winning Jockey: Blaike McDougall

“He was brilliant in the Hamilton Cup albeit and with races like this in store, I was very confident.”