Brandenburg Fights To Win For New Boss

Ipoh specialist gives popular trainer Cook red-letter day at his home track - a hat-trick

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IPOH - Brandenburg battled to victory in the Class 4A 1,200m sprint in Ipoh on March 15 to give trainer Stephen Cook his first success with the gelding in three runs.

The fighting win along the rails in the RM35,500 (S$10,600) race also slotted in as the middle pin of a rare treble for the popular Australian conditioner.

The 63-year-old, who saddled seven runners for the day, also captured the opening event with Fight To Win (Wong Kam Chong), and capped his good day at the office with Silent Boss (Nik Shahronnizam) in the last event of the nine-race programme.

Thanks to the prolific haul, Cook has leapfrogged to second place on the Ipoh trainer's log on five wins, two behind the leader Kevin Coetzee.

Overall on the Malaysian premiership, he sits mid-table, still a fair way off the leader Richard Lines (Kuala Lumpur) on 12 wins.

At $14 for a win on the Singapore Pools tote, Brandenburg was clearly the one in the calculations among his trio of victors.

A three-year-old by Heroic Valour, Fight To Win, who never ran a place in 10 previous starts, was unsighted in the market at $126.

Silent Boss, a 10-year-old veteran by Street Boss, went off at $50 to bring up his 14th win, but the first in more than a year.