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By Colin Hodges

Back from contesting feature races over winter on the north coast and in Queensland, Indifference was a runaway winner on Sunday of the 1600 metres Three Rivers Machinery Narromine Gold Cup.

Trained by Brett Cavanough and ridden by star apprentice Braith Nock, Indifference settled midfield in the Cup with Wealthy Investor and Deion leading the 12 horse field to the home turn.

Cut loose in the straight by Nock, the 7 year old chestnut gelding Indifference ($4.20 to $6) cleared out to win by almost 5 lengths from Rajnish (Mathew Cahill, $3.40 to $2.90 favourite) and Lockdown Gamble (Nick Hyde, $11).

The biggest crowd at a Narromine meeting for many years saw Brett Cavanough and Braith Nock combining again to win the final event with Haze.

Overhauling the leaders, Haze ($5.50) won the 1200 metres Macquarie Valley Fuels Benchmark 58 Handicap from I’m Scarlett (Chad Lever, $21) and Powderfinger (Grant Buckley, $21).

Trainer Brett Cavanough.

Braith Nock, apprenticed to Brett Cavanough at Scone, won the recently completed 2024/2025 Sydney Apprentices Premiership.

Followers of Dubbo trainer Garry Lunn and Tamworth based apprentice Siena Grima reaped a rich reward when they combined for a winning double with Winning Reign and Cavorting.

Since the start of June, Garry Lunn has trained 12 winners with the last 8 being ridden by the very talented Siena Grima.

Displaying excellent judgement, Siena Grima brought both Winning Reign ($2.70 favourite) and rank outsider Cavorting ($91) from near the tail of the field with well timed finishing runs.

As an owner, the Dubbo based media personality Tim Moses has won plenty of races however, few if any, would have given him as much pleasure as winning the 1200 metres Douglas Egan Memorial-Class 1 Handicap at Narromine with River Rogue.

Reared at Enngonia, Tim Moses was a lifelong friend of the late Douglas Egan and his family.

The owner of numerous winners trained by Rodney Robb at Nyngan, Douglas Egan was the long serving President of Enngonia Race Club and later the Narromine Turf Club.

Trained by Cindy Monaghan for her partner Tim Moses and Cindy’s daughter Courtney Monaghan, River Rogue ($13) gave well respected jockey Kath Bell-Pitomac a welcome return to the winners list when sweeping to the lead after turning for home and scoring by over 3 lengths from Maryland Bridge (Siena Grima, $21) and See You Then (Chad Lever, $5.50).

On the comeback trail after a 4 year break from racing, mature age apprentice Nick Hyde (27) won the feature sprint , the 800 metres Narromine USMC Benchamark 66 Handicap on the Sharon Jeffries, Parkes trained Destiny’s Bounty.

Holding a slender lead rounding the turn, Destiny’s Bounty ($11) fought on well to finish a neck in advance of Super Sioux (Izzy Neale, $4.60 favourite) and Violet And Blue (Mathew Cahill, $7.50).

Racing consistently this campaign with a string of placings from wide barriers, Mean Girls was a deserved winner of the 1200 metres JR Richards Class 1 Handicap for trainer Kieren Hazelton and the owner Jason Tate, the President of Gilgandra Jockey Club.

Ridden a dashing race by Wendy Peel, Mean Girls ($8) headed for the judge with a sizeable lead and was not seriously threatened in a 2 lengths win over Hard To Impress (Braith Nock, $2.80 favourite) and Saint Philomena (Kath Bell-Pitomac, $9.50).

During the same week his older brother Michael Cahill was inducted into the Gold Coast Racing Hall Of Fame, Cowra jockey Mathew Cahill won the 800 metres QUBE Agri Maiden Handicap on Three She Goes.

Bred by the Ryan family from Bathurst and trained by Andrew Ryan, the 4yo mare There She Goes ($51) at the second race start, flashed home late to beat another longshot, debut maker Argyle Springs (Ashleigh Stanley, $151) and the favourite Scarlet Monarch (Anna Roper, $2 to $1.75).

The following race, the 1100 metres Narromine Shire Council Maiden Handicap, was won by Mere Mortal, trained at Cowra by Michael Lynch, the brother in law of Mathew Cahill.

Part owned by Ian Eastaway from Grenfell, Mere Mortal (Ken Dunbar, $6) overcame the outside barrier to lead from the 600 metres and hold on for a neck win over It’s A Tata (Izzy Neale, $6.50) and Litlfela (Mikayla Weir, $12).

The Gulargambone Gold Cup meeting is scheduled for Saturday followed by Wellington on Monday then Mendooran (Saturday 1st September) and Mudgee (Sunday 2nd September).

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