GLENN STEVENSON LANDS THIRD SUCCESSIVE WIN IN THE DEVONPORT CUP, QUINELLAS THE RACE

By Graham Potter | Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Trainer Glenn Stevenson landed his third Devonport Cup win in a row … the only difference in the set of hat-trick results being that this time the Stevenson winner was the $7.50 chance Asva as opposed to Ashy Boy, Stevenson’s previous back-to-back Devonport Cup winner.

But Ashy Boy still had a say, helping Stevenson land the big race quinella.

The fifty-two race veteran was right there and he looked a possible winner inside the final 100m before being run down late by Asva, who was flying in the finish as the widest runner on the track.

The winning margin was 0.30 lengths.

The Devonport Cup continued a hot run of form for jockey Kelvin Sanderson, with the Cup giving Sanderson a double on the day (he won earlier in the day aboard the Trent Wells trained Gladding) … and this double came on the back of the three winners Sanderson rode at the previous meeting at Hobart which included wins in the $125 000 Tasmanian Guineas with the $1.60 favourite Mazzini and aboard the $1.35 favourite Durazzo in the $125 000 The Inevitable Stakes … both runners being trained by Barry Campbell.

Sanderson’s third winner at Hobart was the self-same Asva, who would go on the land the Devonport Cup. in which the $3.90 favourite Don’t Give Up finished unplaced in midfield, while the $4.40 second favourite Flossing, on whom Craig Newitt was looking for a tenth Davenport Cup win, finished tailed off.

Newitt had ridden Ashy Boy to those two Devonport Cup wins.