Darci Be Good's return to the winners' list in the Hawkesbury Cup has fuelled ambitions to win Sydney's summer showpiece, the Grp 2 Villiers Stakes. The Bede Murray-trained 4YO won the Spring Stakes in October 2011 before running a close 2nd to Doctor Doom in the Grp 1 Spring Champion Stakes at his next start.The next 12 months brought little joy to his connections but they were rewarded for their patience when he took out the Grp 3 Hawkesbury Cup (1600m) earlier this month. Murray says Darci Be

Darci Be Good's return to the winners' list in the Hawkesbury Cup has fuelled ambitions to win Sydney's summer showpiece, the Grp 2 Villiers Stakes. The Bede Murray-trained 4YO won the Spring Stakes in October 2011 before running a close 2nd to Doctor Doom in the Grp 1 Spring Champion Stakes at his next start.The next 12 months brought little joy to his connections but they were rewarded for their patience when he took out the Grp 3 Hawkesbury Cup (1600m) earlier this month. Murray says Darci Be Good is likely to run in the Festival Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill on December 8 as his lead-up to the Villiers (1600m) at Warwick Farm two weeks later. "The Villiers is the race we want with him this time," Murray says. (NZTM).

NZ news...Exciting 3YO filly Rollout the Carpet scored a deserved Grp 1 win with a tough front-running performance to beat a star field in the $300,000 New Zealand Bloodstock 40th 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton on Saturday. In the third leg of NZ Bloodstock's Filly of the Year Series, the Jeff McVean & Emma-Lee Browne trained Rollout the Carpet claimed 12 series points, taking her to 15 points and the lead in the series after earning 3 points when finishing 2nd in the Grp 3 Gold Trail Stakes (1200m).

Glen Boss's hunger for more big-race glory continues, and he's pushing to WA for his next stab at a win. Boss will ride 4YO Travinator in the $500,000 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) at Ascot. Travinator has won his last four starts.