Sport
5 October, 2025
Crown progeny three have a week of good returns
THE Berrimal-based trotting stallion Danny Bouchea, the 2007 Australasian Breeders Crown 2yo Trot winner, continued his successful season with three winners at Maryborough last week.
THE Berrimal-based trotting stallion Danny Bouchea, the 2007 Australasian Breeders Crown 2yo Trot winner, continued his successful season with three winners at Maryborough last week.
Foaled in 2004 the Sundon colt won the Breeders Crown as a 2yo and the following year he won the Victorian Trotters Derby. In all he won 19 races and prizemoney of $326,062.
As a sire he has had 44 of his progeny go to the races with average earnings of $45,109 per starter.
The third leg of Danny Bouchea’s Maryborough treble was Poppy Popstar who was bred by Greg Hargreaves at Kurraca and is trained by Tarah McNamara for herself and her husband Jack and was driven by James Herbertson.
Another winner at that meeting was My Darling Dancer who was bred by Ross and Mary Conway at Gower East and is raced, trained and driven by Ashley Ainsworth of Moyreisk.
The 8yo mare’s third dam is Libby Low the dam of Kilmore Cup winner Nicholas Branach, St Arnaud Pacing Cup winner Voight and nine other winners.
A winning double at Mildura the following night for Ellen Tormey took her tally of winners for the current season to 100 with three months remaining.
It is the fourth time that Ellen has topped the century mark since she had her first race drive in the 06/07 season.
She is the leading female driver in Victoria and currently sits third in the State Drivers Premiership behind James Herbertson and Chris Alford.
Charlton driver Luke Dunne got another winner at the Mildura meeting and then at Bendigo on Wednesday night he scored again on Swiss Lightning for Marnie Bibby.
The driver of the fourth horse, Starzinhereyes, in race one at Melton on Saturday night was former leading driver Daryl Douglas who had not driven in a race since late 2023. The 52yo has driven 4739 winners in his career that have won in excess of $29m in stakes. His last winner was at Stawell in December 2023.
The Charlton club had a strong eight race card for its meeting on the Monday with their next meeting being on the Monday of the Melbourne Cup weekend.
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