Miss Maximuss, a $500 purchase, took her stake earnings to $103,675 with success in the open 1400m at Wingatui yesterday.
She completed a double for her Birchwood, western Southland, owner, Stephen Blair-Edie.
He is the part-owner and trainer of The Hammer Head, who won a rating 75 1400m yesterday. He races Miss Maximuss with his wife, Lynda. The 4yr-old mare is trained by Michael Pitman.
Blair-Edie shares the ownership of The Hammer Head with Steve Hansen (the All Blacks coach), his father Des Hansen and Sabin Kirkland, of Invercargill. Kirkland is the owner-trainer of Coat Of Arms, who was scratched yesterday on veterinary advice. He was found lame in the paddock.
Miss Maximuss has won seven races, including the Miss Scenicland Stakes at Hokitika, a race for 3 and 4yr-olds at Kurow and a fillies and mares feature at Riverton this season.
She has also collected $24,000 in bonuses. Blair-Edie bought her as a 2yr-old at the South Island sale.
Blair-Edie does most of the work with his horses on an airstrip at Birchwood Station.
Jamie Bullard broke his collarbone in a fall yesterday, depleting the ranks of senior South Island riders.
Bullard rode Stormpatrol to win the second race, taking his tally for the season to 58 wins. He sustained his injury when unseated from Chase The Sun 200m after finishing third in the next race.
There was no senior rider available to replace Bullard on All About Alf in the following race. Salem Yusof took the mount, claimed 1.5kg and won decisively. Yusof had been ruled out of riding Reilly Brook in the first race when he was unable to claim his full allowance of 3kg. Yusof was fined $200 for failing to make the weight.
Jay Misbah, the leading South Island rider this season with 62 wins, is heading back to Malaysia for a two-month riding stint after the Wingatui meeting next Sunday.
Co-trainer Mel Coles said he would consider racing Flying Petal at the Wellington winter meeting after the mare won the Birthday Handicap, the open 2100m yesterday.
"You would have to look at Trentham. She is just so good on wet tracks," Coles said.
Flying Petal has gained six of her seven wins on slow to heavy tracks. Three of her wins have been at Wingatui from four starts on the track.
Coles trains her with his son Warwick and races the Bunker-Flying Benie mare with Tom Rooney, of Christchurch and Wendy Codling, of Rangiora. Coles trained Flying Benie for Rooney, winning seven races including the 1992 Canterbury Breeders' Stakes and Timaru Herald Stakes with the Ben Arca mare.
Alysha Templeman was suspended from next Monday until midnight on June 21 for careless riding in race 2 yesterday. Templeman, riding Win Rock admitted shifting in on Drumhill who clipped a heel and stumbled at the 850m.
Court In New York, the favourite who stopped badly in race 1, pulled up distressed. He was making a respiratory noise.
Not My Ruby has to undergo a barrier trial to the satisfaction of stewards. She reared as the starting gates opened for race 5 and remained in the gates.
