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PHOTOS: Brawl storms home in Great Western Cup

Horsham trainer-jockey duo Paul Preusker and Dean Yendall celebrated a victory at Saturday’s Great Western Cup, with seven-year-old gelding Brawl storming home to win the $50,000 feature race.

Yendall sat Brawl astern of the pack for much of the 1950-metre race, as the Thomas Carberry-trained Kokonotsu led the way from pre-race favourite Chimed.

Brawl remained in last place at the final turn, but thundered down the outside on the back straight to pip Kokonotsu by less than half a length, with Patrick Kearney’s The Nephew running third.

It was veteran jockey Yendall’s first victory at the Great Western Cup since 2001 and his first feature race win since returning from hip surgery that sidelined him from July to December last year.



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It also marked the first victory for Brawl since 2023, as the $27,500 first-place winnings took his career prize money to $257,930.

Yendall rode another winner on the day, claiming the Ian Kilpatrick Memorial Maiden Plate astride Jamie Edwards’ Bo Cougar.

While Alana Kelly had to settle for second place aboard Kokonotsu in the feature race, it remained a day out for the Ballarat-based jockey.

Kelly rode winners for Tom Conlan in race two with Red Sparks, Patrick and Michelle Payne in race three with Oh So Thrilling and Simon Gebert’s Thunder Park in race six, and finished her day on a high note by claiming a fourth win aboard Max Mercury in the eighth race.

Kelly continued her run of success on Sunday, riding three winners from four starts – all for Conlan – at Hanging Rock, giving her seven wins in two days.

“I’ve had a few big weekends in terms of getting city winners, but it’s definitely a feather in the cap to get that many winners in a couple of days,” she said.

“Obviously, I went into Great Western with a full book, but it turned out a lot better than I thought it would on paper – all four were really tough winners.

“Stepping into Sunday, Tom took the full team to Hanging Rock, and it really paid off. 

“They’d all been going around in those sorts of grades, but Tom really planned it out for that meeting, and it worked out great.”

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