Astute trainer shoots for five wins on the bounce with Mocambo.

Mocambo will line up to try to win its fifth race in a row in Saturday’s Yeppoon Cup after scoring an emphatic win at Gladstone last week.

Sixty-seven-year-old trainer Fred Smith has his eyes set on eight-year-old gelding Mocambo having a crack the $200,000 Country Cups Challenge Final (1600m) at Doomben on 30 November.  The $15,000 GJ Gardner Yeppoon Cup (1400m) is a Country Cups Qualifier.

Last week Mocambo won an unsuitable sprint over 1194m in the Gladstone Open by 2 lengths. Carrying 61.5kg, Mocambo scored its fourth straight victory, safely holding out Grand De Lago and King Klaus. The son of Deep Field remains on track for its Brisbane target and a Yeppoon Cup success would be another building block towards his main target. Mocambo’s wins prior to Gladstone victory were over 1600m and 1800m, and the 1400m on turf at Keppel Park will work in his favour. With Tasha Chambers in the saddle Mocambo will carry 62kg and run from barrier 2 in the ten-horse field.

Jared Wehlow has last year’s runner up Letmeletgo engaged in the Cup. He ran second to Kathy’s Beau at Callaghan Park at his most recent run on 19 October, and will be ridden by Paul Hamblin (62kg), while its stablemate Bondurant who hasn’t found winning form since January will be ridden by Leah Martyn.

Premier jockey Justin Stanley will team with the Clinton Taylor trained Kathy’s Beau who is in good form winning its three CQ starts in Rockhampton and Mackay. Stanley will get a huge cheer from the local crowd if he can make it four wins in a row on the former Victorian, Kathy’s Beau (59.5kg). Yeppoon’s five race program starts at 1.30 PM Saturday.

RJC CEO. David Aldred.

Photo Credit: Caught in the Act Photography.