RUNNER WHO EARNED OVER $70 000 WHILE STILL A MAIDEN GETS THE CHOCOLATES AT TOOWOOMBA

By Graham Potter | Sunday, August 22, 2021

Fresh from a Saturday Metropolitan win with Baanone at Eagle Farm that afternoon, the Sears Training partnership turned their focus to the Toowoomba night meeting on the evening of August 21 … where another two winners, Bangers And Mayo and Sonic Arrow, rolled onto the scoreboard. Sonic Arrow has an unusual story regarding prize-money earnings (see below).
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Their first winner at Toowoomba was Bangers And Mayo ($2.60) who simply gave his rivals a galloping lesson in a BM70 contest over 1640m. There is no other way to describe the start to finish win of the four-year-old chestnut who dominated the race throughout.

Pushed into an immediate lead by apprentice Angela Jones, there was no messing about as Bangers And Mayo proceeded to stretch out his rivals with a determined, sustained gallop which left all of his rival, bar the second placed The Irons (who was hanging in there), already well out of their ground halfway through the race.

If there was any expectations from those in the pack that Bangers And Mayo would come back to his field they were in for a big disappointment as Bangers and Mayo never blinked and continued to run home strongly all the way down the home straight to win every bit as convincingly as the official 2.80 length winning margin from The Irons suggests.

That the third placed runner, Maevila Ruler, was 5.80 lengths back and the fourth placed runner, In Your Element, was 9.80 lengths back underlined the dominant nature of Bangers And Mayo’s fifth career win … and his second in succession following his win at Kilcoy in a Class 3 Handicap at his previous start.

The Spill The Beans gelding is thus currently unbeaten in two starts as a four-year-old!
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Sonic Arrow, who also started at $2.60, won a Maiden Handicap over 1110m.

Not many horses are still going around as a Maiden having already banked over $70 000 in prize-money, but that was the case with Sonic Arrow who went into this race with a race record of seven second places (six of them in a row), two third places and four fourth places … meaning she had only finished out of the first four in three of her sixteen previous starts … so while the win had not been there, she was paying her way.

At Toowoomba, Sonic Arrow’s first task was to cope with the worst of the draw (twelve out of twelve), but she made light work of that supposed disadvantage, being chased into the lead from the break by apprentice Kate Cowan and getting there in comfortable fashion.

Cowan then rated Sonic Arrow beautifully and, lthough she dd have Pennyworth snapping at her heels down the home stretch, the daughter of Golden Archer was never going to be denied this time and she still held a 0.80 length winning margin at the line.

An overdue win to be sure, but a well-deserved one nevertheless.
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Sunday August 22 and the Sears team was at the Sunshine Coast where their best result was a second place by Red Wave, the horse who had clinched an historic premiership for Tony and Maddy Sears with that win on July 30.

Red Wave gave his all had to settle for a close-up second place after being outgunned late by Sergeant Silva.

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