Another Baker winning in Oz

BONNY O’Reilly has signalled her readiness for stakes company and earned a trip to Brisbane with a dominant win at Rosehill.

Trained by former Kiwi Bjorn Baker, the son of ATC Oaks and Derby winning trainer Murray Baker, the O’Reilly mare racked up her fourth successive win and sixth from eight starts on Saturday to set up a tilt at a Listed sprint at Eagle Farm in two weeks.

If she can win that and get her rating up, the four-year-old should gain a start in the Group I Tatt’s Tiara in Brisbane.

With Baker at home on parenting duties, stable representative Maddie Berkeley said Bonny O’Reilly remained untapped with more to give.

Formr Kiwi Jason Collett had Bonny O’Reilly, a $3.20 favourite, in a good position tracking the leaders and let her go in the straight.

She powered home to beat Wild ‘N’ Famous by half a length with Dream Lane another length third.

But up in Brisbane, the news was not so good for the Kiwitrained sprinter Splurge who ran second to last in a Group III sprint over 1200m in the last at Doomben.

The Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards-trained Splurge, who was making his Australian debut, was sent out a $3.50 favourite but was slow out of the gates to settle near last and failed to make an impact running down the outside in the straight.

The four-year-old son of Savabeel finished 11 lengths behind race winner Jungle Edge.

Splurge’s jockey Opie Bosson also had no luck aboard the Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scotttrained Sound Proposition who finished tenth in the Group I Doomben Cup.

Meanwhile, down in South Australia, Savvy Dreams, who run a brilliant fourth in the South Australia Derby last week, appeared not to back up as she wilted late to only beat three runners home in the Group III South Australia Fillies Classic.

Savvy Dreams raced handy on the rail for much of the trip but finished ten and a half lengths behind race winner Ana Royale.

The Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen-trained daughter of Savabeel has been luckless in South Australia.

She was a late scratching before the Australasian Oaks when she reared up and flipped herself over just seconds before she was due to load and was caught three wide for most of the trip in last week’s Derby.