Paul Murray brought Junoesque back to Kembla for a quick kill and that’s exactly what he got.
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With his only runner on the seven race card, the six-year-old proved to classy in the Hansen & Cole Funerals Benchmark 67 Handicap (1600m) on Saturday.
Ridden by Robbie Brewer, Junosesque finished strongest along the rails to beaten John Thompson trained Realise Potential by a neck.
Too Chic was third.
“She has been running in stronger races than this so we brought her back in grade a bit to try and get a quick kill,” Murray said after the win.
“That’s the way it has worked out which is good.”
Brewer took all the shortcuts along the fence on Murray’s mare and was rewarded over the final furlong as he wore down Adam Hyeronimus on Realise Potential.
It gave Murray a perfect record of one-from-one for the day.
The stable continued their winning ways at Nowra on Sunday with Lord Boulevard’s win in the Kokoda Track WW2 Class 2 Handicap (1000m).
The three-year-old is likely to be bound for Wagga for the carnival following the success.
Gwenda Markwell and Theresa Bateup made sure Murray wasn’t the only Kembla trainer getting in on the act over the weekend.
Markwell chalked up her 19th winner of the season at Kembla with Sayrien while Bateup also had a victory at Nowra.
Bateup’s four-year-old Freedom Call won the Shah Wali Kot Afganistan Maiden Plate (1400m) under the urging of apprentice Kayla Nisbet.