The decision to sacrifice a stud career for regally-bred Bid Spotter is paying dividends with the recently gelded three-year-old racing his way into contention for the Queensland Derby.Trained by Graeme Rogerson, Bid Spotter added a 1900-metre victory at Canterbury on Tuesday to his win over 1800 metres at Randwick on Easter Monday.By supersire Redoute's Choice out of Group One winner Isolda, Bid Spotter sustained a long run from the home turn to beat Altered Boy by a half-length in the Hyland R

The decision to sacrifice a stud career for regally-bred Bid Spotter is paying dividends with the recently gelded three-year-old racing his way into contention for the Queensland Derby.

Trained by Graeme Rogerson, Bid Spotter added a 1900-metre victory at Canterbury on Tuesday to his win over 1800 metres at Randwick on Easter Monday.

By supersire Redoute's Choice out of Group One winner Isolda, Bid Spotter sustained a long run from the home turn to beat Altered Boy by a half-length in the Hyland Race Colours Handicap at Canterbury.

"He'll probably have one more run in Sydney then head to Queensland for the Grand Prix and the Derby," Rogerson said.

"He just wasn't putting in as a colt and he is now showing how good he is."

Rogerson also trained Isolda who beat Octagonal in the 1995 Champagne Stakes after he had edged her out of victory in the AJC Sires' Produce.

By champion sire of stayers Sir Tristram, Isolda ran third to Kenbelle in the AJC Australian Oaks the following year.

Bid Spotter's win was the second for the Rogerson-Cassidy combination at Canterbury with two-year-old More Than Cash holding out the fast-finishing Sixtyfour by a half-head in the Children's Expo (1100m).

"He might go to Queensland, we'll just wait and see," Rogerson said.

It was the third start for More Than Cash while the Chris Waller-trained Sixtyfour was making his debut for Ingham Bloodstock.

The Waller stable didn't go away winless with European import Shadow Cabinet leading all the way to take out the Rosehill Gardens Event Welter (1550m).

For the past few years, Waller has travelled to England to buy tried horses with success and Shadow Cabinet's win was his sixth in Australia.

"He has won six races in twelve months for us," Waller said.

"Overall six of the horses I bought over there have won sixteen races in that time.

"They take a while to acclimatise and then they take a run or two under race conditions but they have been good to me.

"We paid a bit more for the ones we bought in October last year and I expect them to be racing in the next month or so.

"They seem to do particularly well over the winter months."

Shadow Cabinet was one of three winners for Kerrin McEvoy who rode the Gerald Ryan-trained Grager to victory in the Bridal Expo Handicap (1550m) and Shatters to win the Grand Pavilion Handicap (1200m) for his boss Sheikh Mohammed.