Everyone wants to be with a winner — just ask in-form Warrnambool trainer Peter Chow.
Chow has 12 horses in work, more than at any other point in his 10-year career, and given he also has to milk cows it makes a pretty hectic lifestyle for the quietly spoken trainer.
Chow trained Leila’s Star ($4) to score an impressive benchmark 58 victory over 1400 metres at her home track last Thursday.
“It’s keeping me busy,” he confirmed this week. “I’m very lucky in that I’ve got Stewie Bishop and other staff to help me out. 
“We’ve had a bit of luck over the last year or so, which is why we’ve now got the 12 in work, I suppose.”
The former Port Fairy footballer said he was confident Leila’s Star would win at Warrnambool on the back of consistent form through her campaign.
“She deserved the win,” Chow said. “She ran on solidly last time at Ararat on a leaders’ track and on the back of that I thought she had to be hard to beat.”
Meanwhile, stablemate Robbie’s Star resumed with a third placing at odds of 100/1 at bet365 Geelong last Saturday but Chow said the seven-year-old was destined for a jumping campaign.
“It was a top run,” he said. 
“He loves wet ground and has shown a liking for the jumps. We’ll just take him along slowly with a few flat runs before kicking off his jumping career.”
Delos, a newcomer to Chow’s stable, was unplaced in a restricted race at Geelong.
“We got Delos as a jumper,” he said. “His best form is over more ground than the 1300 metres he ran over on Saturday. 
“We’ve done a bit of schooling over the jumps with Delos and he appears to like the caper.”
Delos was originally trained in Sydney by Gai Waterhouse. He was with David Joice on the Gold Coast when Chow picked him up.
Chow has trained 14 winners over the past 12 months, nine of them this season.
Begood too good
Warrnambool galloper Begood Toya Mother may be Adelaide-bound after an easy win over 1300 metres on his home track last Thursday
Trained by Daniel Bowman, Begood Toya Mother ($4.80) defeated Quietly Angry by 2½ lengths at benchmark 64 level.
Bowman said the lightly raced four-year-old had always shown potential.
“He’s taken time to mature,” he said. “I think he’s finally putting it all together but I’m confident there’s still plenty of improvement in him. 
“We may take him to Adelaide for his next run or two because there’s some nice money on offer and I believe he’ll be up to the challenge.”
Begood Toya Mother has won two of his six starts and earned $30,290.
Bucks for Lucques
Racing Victoria will continue paying a $10,000 bonus for horses that win their first career jumping race this season, and the connections of Lucques are the first beneficiaries.
Lucques, trained by Eric Musgrove, picked up the bonus in the first jumps race for the 2019 season, the maiden hurdle at Warrnambool last week.
The scheme, introduced in 2012, has been a resounding success for jumps racing, with $8000 going to owners and $2000 to trainers.
 More than $3.8 million in prizemoney is on offer to jumps racing participants this season.
Black-booker
• Slowpoke Rodriguez: sensational effort to run third on the flat at Warrnambool last Thursday. Slowpoke Rodriguez is a talented jumper who looks ready for another successful season.