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\"Gunsynd's<\/a>
Lady riders surround Pam O’Neill, their trailblazer, at Kilcoy last year (Photo: Ross Stanley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Gunsynd's<\/a>June 13, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Ross Stanley<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Saturday’s country racing spotlight falls on Kilcoy’s Cup and Ladies Day fixture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Female participants are well catered for, and the rich $15,000 Ian and Di McAuley-Brisbane Livestock Bonus QTIS Maiden – an event for two-year-old fillies restricted to lady riders – tops the bill.<\/p>\n

There are incentives in the form of a $500 Female Strapper Award, a $500 bonus for the Female Trainer of the Day and $500 cash for the top female jockey on the six race card.<\/p>\n

The “blokes” are not forgotten either: the leading male rider will also receive $500.<\/p>\n

The overall leaders of either gender in the jockey and trainer ranks will be presented with the Bruce Duncan Memorial Trophy and the Leopard Tree Lodge prize respectively.<\/p>\n

South-Burnett stables with acceptors include Peter Blackwell, whose hitherto sprinter Shinzo Mashuranbo steps up to 2000m in the Golden Shores Rating 55 Handicap; Glen Richardson (Latarno and Miss You Johnny); and Barry Richardson (Crazy Ways).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kaylene Hamilton and Andrew Green have drawn emergency slots in the Beavis and Bartel MB 55 respectively, with Mini Style and A Rare Old Time.<\/p>\n

Apprentice Hannah Philips, fresh from another winner at Gayndah last Saturday, has three engagements as she strives to salute for the third consecutive raceday.<\/p>\n

The Kilcoy thoroughbred action will be interspersed with three contests for the mini-trotters.<\/p>\n

Further afield, Norma King has Willywynya (a winner at Gayndah last weekend), Vain Dazzler, Like This and Flight Command entered at Goondiwindi.<\/p>\n

Her apprentice son Joshua and the Gold Coast four kilogram claimer Quayde Krogh both have mounts at Charleville.<\/p>\n

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River Lad (Damien Oliver) heads Temple of Boom (Tegan Harrison) in the 2014 Stradbroke Handicap (Photo: Ross Stanley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Racing really is a ferris wheel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trainers can have horses in their yards that are sitting in the very highest, most splendid part of the ride while others are barely above the ground.<\/p>\n

Although they have decided to bypass the program, both Tony Gollan and Natalie McCall – the conditioners that landed the Doomben 10,000 and Stradbroke with Spirit of Boom and River Lad – had a nomination for Kilcoy.<\/p>\n

The other twist is that Shane Chataway has been regularly donating free services to his stallion Top Echelon as a supplement to various rural races.<\/p>\n

With his son River Lad grabbing winter glory, the value of those gifts has escalated.<\/p>\n

All three placegetters in Kilcoy’s juvenile fillies Maiden on Saturday will pick up one of these offerings.<\/p>\n

River Lad has some connections with the bush.<\/p>\n

Firstly, Natalie’s father Ray is a familiar figure around non-TAB tracks and secondly, the Group One winner produced by Canny Lad’s daughter Ikeymo started out with Mary Hassam at Bundaberg.<\/p>\n

After a strong fourth in a juvenile Maiden at Caloundra, the bay managed to finish seventh in an all-age Eidsvold Maiden on 27 February 2010.<\/p>\n

He then went to Frank Crick at the Sunhine Coast.<\/p>\n

And at his next run a month later, he bounced back to take out a Caloundra Maiden for two-year-olds.<\/p>\n