50 Owners Rejoice In Winning Taree Treble

DANIAL Stone landed a winning treble at Taree on Wednesday and was wondering if he could cope with the congratulatory texts.

Littermates Big Blaster and Lemon Squeeze (Fernando Blaster-Dulcafay) are raced by syndicates put together by Aaron Ison.

“Big Blaster has a syndicate of 30 owners and Lemon Squeeze has 20 in her syndicate,” said Danial.

“The crew in Big Blaster love a punt so she was always going to start in the red.”

She won her race debut in a 314m Maiden in 18.33 as the $1.33 favourite.

“I thought she would go quicker, but she blew the start a bit,” said Danial.

“But she still won by seven.

“Gee, there was a lot of pressure on as the red hot favourite and with 30 owners.”

Lemon Squeeze scored by almost two lengths on debut in a 392m Maiden as the $2.90 favourite.

Danial's other winner was Cosmic Ghost at $2.50 in a 5th Grade (314m) in 18.25.

“Lemon Squeeze will get 500 metres, but Bolt Blaster might struggle to run that,” said Danial of the pair.

“I'll put Lemon Squeeze back at Taree in a 0-3 win over 500 metres next week but Bolt Blaster can go back for another 314 metre.

“One of the litter won at Wentworth Park a week or so ago.”

Danial has been training for two years and only two months ago got his public trainer's license.

Only a couple of weeks ago he won a treble at Muswellbrook.

Of Cosmic Ghost he says she is a classy bitch but is “a work in progress”.

Meanwhile, John Thomas won the Silver Bullet final (392m) with favourite Style Sensation in 22.21 scoring by five lengths over Duke Of Diamonds and Midnight Diesel.

She led throughout to grab the winner's purse of $7000 for her 10th win from 29 starts to take her prizemoney to $29,000.