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Local veterans Blinkin Easy and Derivative Receipt showed they can still be a force in country feature races with their recent return to winning form at Tamworth.
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The seven-year-old Blinkin Easy rekindled memories of his many country cup wins when he recorded a suprisie sprint win over 1200m at Tamworth on March 31 to set up another tilt at a Tamworth Cup.
The Ruth Cooper-trained gelding was a 50-1 outsider and stunned his rivals when he flashed home to beat Prussian Secret by a half length with last year's Tamworth Cup winner Scussy Moola, a half head away third at his first start after a spell.
Both Prussian Secret and Scussy Moola are also bound for the Tamworth Cup over 1400m on April 29.
Cooper trains Blinkin Easy at Moonbi and has now won 12 races with the seven-year-old who is fast approaching $200,000 in prizemoney.
“He was fired up today,” Cooper said.
“He hasn't done that for a long while."
"He's always been a 1200m to 1400m horse and he will be set for the Tamworth Cup. He'll have another run before then."
Morgan was delighted with the effort of Prussian Secret, who was returning from a fetlock operation, while Scussy Moola looked unlucky as his saddle shifted and gave Greg Ryan a difficult ride.
Derivative Receipt's Tamworth trainer Leon Davies was delighted to see the nine-year-old win over 2100m as it convinced him the veteran is on track to win a second Mornington Handicap at the Tamworth Cup carnival.
"The 2100m was just what he wanted. He's definitely on track for the Mornington," Davies said.
Derivative Receipt won the Armidale Cup/Mornington double in 2009.
