Goulburn trainer Danny Williams made up for a lean winter carnival and is looking forward to the spring after notching a winning double at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Williams temporarily closed his southern base and brought 11 horses to Brisbane two months ago but the pickings had been slim until impressive three-year-olds Rockabilly Boy and Granity both scored authoritative wins."We've had a lot of seconds this trip and it's been a fairly quiet season for us up here," Williams said."There have bee
Goulburn trainer Danny Williams made up for a lean winter carnival and is looking forward to the spring after notching a winning double at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.
Williams temporarily closed his southern base and brought 11 horses to Brisbane two months ago but the pickings had been slim until impressive three-year-olds Rockabilly Boy and Granity both scored authoritative wins.
"We've had a lot of seconds this trip and it's been a fairly quiet season for us up here," Williams said.
"There have been a number of issues along the way but these are both nice young horses with very good futures."
Williams wouldn't be drawn into a comparison between Rockabilly Boy and Granity but said both had niggling issues which time and patience would rectify.
"We're going home on Tuesday and both horses will be going to the spelling paddock straight away," he said.
A flashy chestnut son of Elvstroem, Rockabilly Boy ($1.55 fav) clearly resented the firm Eagle Farm surface but dug deep under pressure to score a courageous win in the William Duffus Memorial Maiden (1200m).
The win edged premiership frontrunner Stathi Katsidis one win closer to his third Brisbane jockeys' title and the champion hoop gave Williams a glowing report.
"There's no doubt he'll make a really nice horse - he has plenty of raw ability," Katsidis said.
"He was always going to win but it was hurting him in the straight so it was a good effort."
A rangy son of Pentire, Granity ($4.60) responded to a typically patient Michael Cahill ride to overpower his rivals for a half-neck win in the Mike Gervais Memorial Maiden (1000m).
Cahill said Granity was a "nice horse" who would appreciate being ridden well of the speed in the future.
Earlier, premier trainer Robert Heathcote apologised to his colleague Harry Richardson after a successful protest cost the Toowoomba horseman a rare city win.
Richardson's galloper Western Run beat Heathcote's Red God by a nose in the John & Therese Glennon Memorial Maiden (1400m) before the runner-up's rider Shane Scriven lodged a protest citing interference in the final 100m.
Scriven claimed Western Red had shifted out under Stathi Katsidis' hard riding and stewards wasted no time in upholding the protest.
The win took Heathcote's tally for the season to 53 and he apologised to Richardson for denying him the win.
"I'd have been happy to lose it for Harry to keep the race," he said.