A timely win by Very Grand at Rosehill should help lift her price at next month's sale of breeding stock in Sydney.The mare brought up a winning double for Bart Cummings who was in Brisbane to watch Think Money run in the Queensland Oaks.Foreman John Thompson said the Winter Racefest Handicap (1500m) had panned out as the stable had hoped with Very Grand ($7) making a sustained run out wide to beat race leader Imtops ($8) by 2-3/4 lengths."She needed the speed on and having a few apprentices in

A timely win by Very Grand at Rosehill should help lift her price at next month's sale of breeding stock in Sydney.

The mare brought up a winning double for Bart Cummings who was in Brisbane to watch Think Money run in the Queensland Oaks.

Foreman John Thompson said the Winter Racefest Handicap (1500m) had panned out as the stable had hoped with Very Grand ($7) making a sustained run out wide to beat race leader Imtops ($8) by 2-3/4 lengths.

"She needed the speed on and having a few apprentices in the race helped," Thompson said.

Very Grand had the services of an old hand in Chris Munce with half the 10-horse field ridden by junior jockeys.

"She is going in the sale next month so this should boost her price," Thompson said.

Earlier, Yaqubi boosted his chances of joining Cummings' spring team with a come-from-behind win in the www.theraces.com.au Handicap (1500m).

The three-year-old was gelded after his two-year-old campaign when he was unplaced at his two starts.

This time around, Yaqubi began with a fast-finishing second at Canterbury in late April before winning over 1400 metres on Randwick's Kensington track.

He was also ridden by Munce who brought him from last on the turn to overhaul Rollins to score by a half-length.

"We need to build his prizemoney to ensure he can get into the better races in the spring," owner Dato Tan Chin Nam's racing manager Duncan Ramage said.

"Since he has been gelded he has turned the corner.

"There are some nice races in store for him."

Yaqubi was a $140,000 Easter yearling which Ramage said was proving good value.

"He is by Galileo who was not popular in Australia then and is still nowhere near as popular as he is in Europe," he said.

"He will get better over further and there is a lot to look forward to."