ABOUT 8500 people turned out in beautiful weather to see one of Sydney's boom apprentices Sam Clipperton take his first Emirates Park Scone Cup mount aboard Cameo and then win the $200,000 Listed event last Friday.
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A Shamardal four-year-old mare, Cameo became the first stakes winner for Warwick Farm trainer John O'Shea, who had taken over the Australian "training reins" of the horses for world owner Darley stud the previous week.
The win of Timeless Prince in the $60,000 Pages Event Equipment Country Cup gave his Gosford trainer Tony Newing his biggest success, when the four-year-old won convincingly.
A gelding by Vinery stud's Flying Spur stallion Casino Prince, Timeless Prince also gave his 29-year-old trainer his first city success (at Eagle Farm) two starts prior, and his first success at the Grafton winter racing extravaganza last July, with the horse possibly going for his second Grafton attack this year.
Local owner and trainer Mary Moses of Kanangra Stud, opened Friday's program with a win with her first starter and home-bred It's A Shamozzle, which landed the former Darley stud shuttler Shamardal a winning program double.
Rod Northam prepared exciting juvenile Voodoo Lad (by Yarraman Park's leading first crop sire I Am Invincible) to win the $100,000 Inglis Two-Year-Old Challenge (which is for graduates of the 2013 Scone Yearling Sale or the Australian Blood- stock Sale).
The third Inglis Challenge win in the past five years for the Scone-based trainer, Voodoo Lad was sold from Yarraman Park for $36,000 at the Scone Yearling Sale.
To make it a treble for Scone trainers (on Friday), Paul Messara prepared a winning double with Tarangower (by deceased Northern Meteor) and Tall Risk (Kempinsky, which stands at Tamac stud, Walcha).
Australia's "first lady of racing", Gai Waterhouse, was on hand to see three of her four runners achieve the trifecta in the $400,000 Inglis Three-Year-Old Guineas at Scone's third "stand-alone" Saturday city-rated meeting the follow- ing day.
For graduates nominated for the Inglis Race Series, the winner was Cosmic Endeavour (Northern Meteor), who defeated Liberty's Choice and Ryker (both by Redoute's Choice).
Darley stud's Seaside (Redoute's Choice) and Aerobatics (Exceed And Excel) took the quinella in the Saturday feature $200,000 Coolmore Dark Jewel Classic-G3.
