Willow Grove Stud

Rising 6yo gelding The Big Goodbye staved off the fast-finishing topweight Far Too Easy and defending champion Ranges in Wednesday’s $200,000 Listed Ramornie Hcp (1200m) at Grafton.

A set against Eduardo in the betting ring rewarded his legion of his fans, who did not have a moment's worry in Saturday's Group III Southern Cross Group Concorde Stakes at Randwick.

By the time Eduardo passed the 300m mark in Saturday’s $500,000 Group II Hyland Race Colours Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Randwick, the defending champion had gassed old foe Nature Strip. Still, one of the great shocks of racing loomed large as the $61 chance Shelby Sixtysix became a menacing presence.

Yet another big payday for the blue-collar champion Eduardo in Saturday's $1,000,000 Classique Legend Stakes at Rosehill.

 It was billed as a mini Everest, with six of the starters already gaining a slot in the $15million feature, and it was giant slayer Eduardo who got the better of the favourite Nature Strip in Saturday’s $500,000 Group II Bowermans Furniture The Shorts (1100m) at Randwick.

Although he was running on empty at the end, the admirable Eduardo ran the chasing pack off their legs in Saturday’s $1million Group 1 Doomben Ten Thousand (1200m).

After breaking a 26 run of outs stretching back to June 2018 at his previous start at Terang, Inn Keeper made it two on the trot in the Listed Wangoom Hcp (1200m) at Warrnambool on Wednesday.

Eduardo fails to excite the purists with his blue-collar pedigree, but for fans that value a big-hearted performer that leaves it all on the track, the seven-year-old gelding is star.

From a four-year-old gelding making his track debut at Moe to a triple Group II winning seven-year-old starring down the reigning Horse Of The Year in course record time in the Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Randwick, that is the evolution of blue-collar hero Eduardo.

Seven-year-old gelding Eduardo kept his record at a perfect two for two since joining the stables of Joe Pride when leading at every call in Saturday’s Group II Iron Jack Missile Stakes at Rosehill Gardens.