Hawkesbury trainer Brad Widdup looks to have an exciting prospect on his hands following the impressive win of Savvy Hallie in the $300,000 Group 2 Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m) for three-year-old fillies at Randwick last Saturday. 
Jockey Jay Ford settled Savvy Hallie ($3.50) just outside the lead before dashing clear over the concluding stages to win by three-quarters of a length from Within The Law, with the strong-finishing Queen Of Clubs 2¾ lengths away in third place. 
“She was just brilliant,” Widdup said after the race. “It’s great when they can handle a track like this (heavy 10) and it’s been a great call to run today so I’ll give them a bit of credit there for once. 
“It’s great for the owners, Brad (Hunt) and Benny (Vasallo). They’ve been big supporters for a long time and it’s just nice to have a filly like her. It was very exciting to see her win so well.” 
Ford added that Savvy Hallie “is a genuine group horse every day of the week”. 
“Hopefully as she furnishes and gets older, she might take that next step again but (it’s) her tenacity and will to win and just how genuine she is — she flies the machines and puts herself in a spot, so she gives herself every chance of success.”
Savvy Hallie looks certain now to have her next start in the Group 2 Furious Stakes (1200m) for three-year-old fillies at Randwick on September 6 and then is likely to tackle the Group 1 Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill three weeks later. 
Whether she then backs up in the Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) the following Saturday is yet to be decided. 
“I’m not sure if she’s going to be too brilliant for a mile,” Widdup said. 
Both minor placegetters were resuming and should be improved next start, with Queen Of Clubs likely to relish a step up in distance.
Neil up, follow Force
Murwillumbah trainer Matthew Dunn added to his lengthy list of TAB Highway winners when Neil took last Saturday’s edition, a Class 2 handicap over 1100 metres. 
Neil ($11) scored by a length and a quarter from the well supported Xcessive Force, with Beer Baron a further two lengths away in third place. 
The runner-up, who is trained at Goulburn by Danielle Seib, was having her first run in 23 weeks. She now has two wins and two seconds from four starts and should pay to follow. 
Around the traps
At Newcastle last Saturday Keagan Latham got off to a flying start, riding the first two winners on the program, but it was Mitchell Bell who took the honours for the afternoon with a treble, all for the Peter Snowden stable. 
The most impressive of the Snowden/Bell winners was four-year-old mare Hurry Miss, who started a $1.75 favourite in the 1400-metre benchmark 64. 
She never looked in danger of defeat, romping away to a 4½-length win. 
At Port Macquarie the same afternoon, Neil Godbolt-trained mare Khant Fail ($1.40 favourite) careered away to a 6¼-length win in the opening race on the program, the 1812-metre Class 1, under promising apprentice Jett Newman. 
There was a further gap of 3¾ lengths to the third placegetter, and the winner could pay to follow if the wet weather continues.
On Canberra’s Acton track last Friday, local trainer Matthew Kelley and promising apprentice Coriah Keatings completed a double when Getty ($10) took the 1206-metre benchmark 85 Sprinters Cup.
The other feature, the Stayers Cup (1900m), went to Sunsource ($7.50), trained at Warwick Farm by Robert Quinn and ridden by Shaun Gymer.
On Sunday, Brad Widdup found himself back in the winner’s circle after Ruby Flyer ($11) took out the Goulburn Cup (1400m) under Dylan Gibbons.
The winner scored by a length and a half from the favourite, The Novelist, with Estadio Mestalla a short neck away in third place. Ruby Flyer is now qualified for the Big Dance. 
Coming attractions
This Friday we’re racing at Tamworth, where the features are the $27,000 Tamworth Rush and a $50,000, Super Maiden, both over 1200 metres. 
Saturday is cup day at Gulargambone, on the central-west plains, with the feature over 1200 metres. 
A wonderful program is in prospect on Sunday at Moree in the north of the state. The 1400-metre Moree Cup, the 950-metre Moree Town Plate and a 1400-metre Super Maiden are the features.