Puissance de Lune bolts home in Bendigo Cup...now for the QES?

Luckless when beaten as an odd-on favourite at his most recent start, Puissance De Lune (IRE) turned Wednesday's $250,000 Listed Jayco Bendigo Cup (2400m) into a one act affair, much to the delight of the sponsor, reports www.breednet.com.au.It says: Given a positive ride by Glen Boss from an outside barrier, Puissance De Lune (IRE) raced on the outside of the surprise leader Fiumicino before Boss let the reins out a notch 400 metres from home and turned the race into a procession. When the judg

Luckless when beaten as an odd-on favourite at his most recent start, Puissance De Lune (IRE) turned Wednesday's $250,000 Listed Jayco Bendigo Cup (2400m) into a one act affair, much to the delight of the sponsor, reports www.breednet.com.au.

It says: Given a positive ride by Glen Boss from an outside barrier, Puissance De Lune (IRE) raced on the outside of the surprise leader Fiumicino before Boss let the reins out a notch 400 metres from home and turned the race into a procession. When the judge called a holt the son of Shamardal had put 8 lengths on his nearest pursuer Practiced (Encosta de Lago) who nosed out the brave Fiumicino (Zabeel) for second.

Owned by Jayco supremo Gerry Ryan and trained by Darren Weir, Puissance De Lune moved his overall record to 5 wins and 3 seconds from 11 starts for earnings of $244,195.

"At Warrnambool we saw what we wanted to see and it was onwards and upwards from there," Weir said. "He was a nice type of horse but he was very bullish and he took quite a while to settle down. I guess at Warrnambool we saw what we wanted to see and it was onwards and upwards from there. This is good for Gerry, he's been a huge supporter of the stable for a long time. Him and Rob(Roulston) bought the horse and they said to try and get him ready for the Bendigo Cup. Normally things don't go right, but today it did.

"Today was going to decide whether we push on to the Queen Elizabeth or not." "I was a little bit worried about whether he'd run a trip or not but he ran it out well today so I dare say we'll be heading that way."