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By Colin Hodges

Barbara Joseph and her sons Paul Jones & Matt Jones operate a training partnership at Canberra and regularly start horses at Forbes, so it was a popular result among the big crowd on Sunday when Louie’s Legacy won the $50,000 Bankstown Sports Forbes Cup with Quayde Krogh in the saddle.

Formerly based in Queensland, Quayd Kroghe had a stint with the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott stable at Randwick before moving to Canberra where he has ridden many winners for the Joseph-Jones Partnership.

In the 1600m Big Dance Eligibility Cup, Louie’s Legacy settled further back than midfield with the $2.30 favourite High Dandy leading the 14-horse field in the run to the home turn from Just Go Bang, Aimpoint and County Kilkenny.

Louie's Legacy (Teaghan Martin) in an earlier Canberra win. Image by Bradley Photographers

Overhauling the leading pack in the straight, Louie’s Legacy ($7 to $6.50) prevailed over Aimpoint (Donovan Dillon, $14) by a neck with over two lengths to County Kilkenny (Mathew Cahill, $9.50) while High Dandy battled on for fourth.

Long time staunch supporters of Forbes Jockey Club, Hawkesbury trainers Terry Croft and Tara & Philippe Vigouroux won races with Zoutastic and Unreal Expectation, respectively.

A last start Grafton winner for Terry Croft, Zoutastic (Chad Lever, $2.30 fav) in the feature sprint at Forbes, the 1200m Club Sydney-Amazing Ben Hall Bullet BM 82 Handicap, trailed the leading pair then held off by a length last year's winner Miss Jennifer (Mathew Cahill, $3.10) and Shipshape (Donovan Dillon, $6)

Unreal Expectation also a last start Bathurst winner for Tara & Phillipe Vigouroux won the 1400m Forbes Scrap Metal & CUB Breweries Showcase Class 1 Handicap at Forbes.

Swooping in the straight, Unreal Expectation ($4.60) gave Chad Lever a double when a half length winner from A Boy Named Soo (Zoe Hunt, $12) and Luna Angel (Teaghan Martin, $15).

Winning form proved to be good form at Forbes and yet another last start winner, Slush Fund at Bathurst, won again at Forbes

Raced by Kathryn Smith from Dubbo and trained by Clint Lundholm, Slush Fund (Zoe Hunt, $5.50) took the lead from Geostorm then drew clear to beat Overflow Miss (Jack Baker, $81) and Sapphires Son (Dale Cole, $21).

First leg of a winning double for Bathurst trainer Dean Mirfin was Ishikari in the $50,000 Walker Family Showcase Super Maiden Handicap over 1300m.

Send Me Grey and Capricious Belle set the pace before Ishikari (Donovan Dillon, $3.10 fav) finished best to account for Blackfish (Izzy Neale, $9) and Wolf Island (Mathew Cahill, $5.50).

Former South African jockey Donovan Dillon was again the rider when the Dean Mirfin-trained Shaddup ($6 to $4.60) led from the top of the straight to win the Club Forbes Showcase Class 2 Handicap by over two lengths from Royal Bombadier (Mikayla Weir, $4 fav) and Grand Oyster (Jake Pracey-Holmes, $18).

A winning double also for Barbara Joseph, Paul & Matt Jones with Louie’s Legacy (Cup) and Think I Do (Claire Ramsbotham, $4.80) in the 1600m Bankstown Sports 30 Years Forbes Sponsorship Maiden Plate while the Nick Olive, Queanbeyan-trained Triptolemus (Coriah Keatings, $5) won the 1100m Shead & Nicholson-Daikin/Seeley Maiden Plate.

It's the Louth Cup on Saturday and Dubbo (TAB) on Sunday.