Cup won by Love Bandit
NZPA Brisbane The Victorian gelding, Love Bandit, with Queensland apprentice jockey Gary Palmer in the saddle, took out the $lOO,OOO Brisbane Cup (3200 m at the Eagle Farm racecourse yesterday. Palmer gave Love Bandit every chance in the run and dashed the five-year-old clear of runner-up Calpurnicus at the 200 m mark to hang on by threequarters of a length and collect first prize of $66,000.
The Queensland six-year-old, Pay The Purple ran on well to take third place a similar margin away. Love Bandit’s win ended a frustrating run of minor placings in feature staying races for the popular Melbourne trainer Tommy Hughes. Hughes saddled up Salamander, beaten a nose by Hypemo in last year’s Melbourne Cup.
The big disappointment of the cup was the 13-2 favour-
ite Red Kilt which finished twelfth.
Red Kilt’s jockey 17-year-old Queensland apprentice Myles Plumb, said after the event that the three-year-old at no stage handled the track and in his opinion was not quite ready for a 3200 m race.
Love Bandit’s win yesterday was his eighth. He was bought for $22,500 by Mr Ken and Mrs Sophia Dean and given to Hughes to train.
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