Winning Horse: Bank Maur (AUS)

3yoC Maurice (Jpn) - Banksia (Aus)(Redoute's Choice (Aus))

4 starts - 2 wins 1 second $104000

Other Wins

1st Sale Gippsland Times Mdn Plate 1200m (2022) (Debut Run)

Other Placings

2nd Sandown-Hillside 50 Year Life Member Brian Reed 1300m (2022)

Race Result:

1st: Bank Maur (R Laming/J McNeil) - $4.40

2nd: The Fortune Teller (Maher & Eustace/J Kah) - $6.00
3rd: Elliptical (A & S Freedman/C Williams) - $3.30F

Winning Time: 1:24.65 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: 1¼L x Nose

Winning Trainer: Richard Laming

Family attending: “Absolutely good to have the family here and even better to see him win like that.

“He’s always shown that he’s got good potential but he won with authority there and he’s still got improvement to come.

“He’s still got to do a bit more yet. He’s a nice colt, he’s still got a lot to learn but it will be interesting to see what Jye thinks but onwards and upwards.

“Jye galloped him last Saturday at Caulfield and gave him a glowing report and wanted to stay with him and lets hope he wanted to stay with him again.

“I’m really happy with him and he’s run well today.”

To Caulfield Guineas: “I think so. He’s got to do everything right, pull up and train on but I think the mile will suit him and I think natural improvement from this run to the next but he’s got to do everything right and pull up well.”

Winning Jockey: Jye McNeil

“The team have done a great job with him. He can get a little bit hot and bothered and I was concerned on a warm day how he would be pre-race but with a run under his belt and a bit of freshness out of him he presented in fantastic condition and that really progressed into his race.

“He conducted himself well and he put in a performance I expected today so hopefully he can go on with it.

First-up run: “I came from an impossible position first-up and he probably shouldn’t have got as close as he did but his class led him to do so and with the right run today, even though he’s still a bit green and had a look around he was as still able to win with a little bit in hand.

Caulfield Guineas: “I believe that’s their expectations and he’s got that natural talent to take him to a race like that so one to stick with.”