WYONG trainer Brett Partelle is gradually re-building his stable after an accident several years ago that led to lengthy stints in hospital – and he landed a double at Muswellbrook last Friday with the trainer rating one of his winners as a provincial championship horse next year.
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Cultural Man (Andrew Gibbons) resumed from a spell and could not have been more impressive in winning the XXXX Gold Class Two (1000m) in a time just outside the class record.
“That does not surprise me, I have always had an opinion of this horse,” Partelle said.
“He is very much like his sire Walking or Dancing and with a little more maturity I think he will be a 1400m horse also.
“Next year I think we will be talking of him as a Provincial Championship horse.”
Partelle trained Walking or Dancing to win eight races including a Gold Coast Magic Millions cup (1400m) and a Newcastle Newmarket (1400m) and more than $600,000 in stakes money.
Gibbons allowed Cultural Man to settle on the fence, sharing the lead with Nothin’ Leica Poet (Jamie Gibbons) but kicked clear as soon as they straightened and gave the horse a couple of back handers to keep his mind on the job.
“That was impressive but he will be even better when allowed to settle back off the pace,” Gibbons said.
Cultural Man was having only his third start after running fourth in a Muswellbrook two-year-old, on debut, in June last year before winning a two-year-old maiden at Cessnock three weeks later then being sent for a spell.
Partelle led in the second leg of his double later in the day when Sukraji (Greg Ryan) resumed to score an emotional win the TAB.COM.AU Benchmark 55 (1280m).
“Her owner’s granddaughter has been battling cancer and it looks like she might have won the battle so this will be an emotional win for him,” Partelle said.
“This mare has done well for an eight-year-old, particularly to produce a sprint like that at the finish.
“I usually don’t keep mares that old but I thought she was worth keeping for another preparation.
“Early on I thought she was going to develop into a city class horse but she chipped a knee and had a long time out.”
Ryan settled Sukraji in fifth position early and she was presented with a dream run when the leader and favourite Feature rolled away from the fence.
Sukraji went on to beat Feature by three quarters of a length.
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PUNTERS were cheering when the heavily-backed Southern Orders (Jeff Penza) raced away in the straight to win the @thebrookracing On Twitter Benchmark 59 (1750m).
Southern Orders, trained at Bendemeer by Jane Clement, was backed in from $12 to $6 despite three unplaced runs and a third at her last four starts.
