Some of the best stables in the country had runners in the $200,000 Listed Wagga Gold Cup (2000m) on Friday that offered Big Dance eligibility to the winner, but they came up short behind the country galloper Bianco Vilano.
Trained nearby at Albury by Ron Stubbs, the seven year-old Foxwedge gelding was a last start winner of the Listed $200,000 Albury Cup on March 20 and with two tick over trials to keep him up to the mark was ready to fire again.
Second in this race last year, Bianco Vilano went one better this time with Jason Lyon in the saddle.
He powered to the lead with a furlong to run and kept up a good gallop to the line to win by a length over the roughie Villasaurus with last year’s Wagga Cup winner Flying Bandit in third place.
Retained to race by his breeders, Bianco Vilano has the overall record of eight wins and 10 placings from 43 starts with prizemoney topping $723,000.
He is the best of two winners from Cap Bianco, a seven time winner by Falvelon, whose female family is barren of Black Type.
Bianco Vilano is the 27th stakes-winner for Woodside Park Stud’s value sire Foxwedge, who is priced at $7,700.
