Making the long trip home to South Australia continues to pay dividends for Bendigo trainer Kym Hann.
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Since the start of July, Hann has had nine starters at Morphetville in Adelaide for four wins and two thirds.
The consistent Like To Think So has provided two of those four wins, including a bold frontrunning victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Happy Trails Series Final (1400m).
Ridden by Harry Coffey, Like To Think So strode straight to the front and broke the field open with sustained speed.
The five-year-old started to feel the pinch in the final 100m, but the damage had already been done and he won by more than half-a-length.
“It’s the best the horse has ever looked and I couldn’t fault him,’’ Hann told racing.com after the win.
“I was pretty confident. He’s honest and he never gives a bad run. To win a big one like that is pretty handy.”
Originally from Port Lincoln in South Australia, Hann is Bendigo’s best performed trainer in 2018.
Like To Think So has had nine starts this preparation for four wins, two seconds and one third.
He now boasts a career record of five wins and four placings from 13 starts and earnings of a tick over $140,000.
Meanwhile, Jayco Bendigo Cup runner-up Dal Harralid will run at Sandown this Saturday.
The UK import was a gallant second to Red Alto in the 2400m Bendigo Cup and trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have two options for the stayer this Saturday.
Dal Harralid has been entered for the weight-fo-age $300,000 Zipping Classic (2400m) and the $150,000 Sandown Cup (3200m).
Lindsay Park stayer Ventura Storm is one of three runners attempting to win the weight-for-age Zipping Classic after running in the Melbourne Cup.
Yucatan, the beaten favourite, Ventura Storm and Who Shot Thebarman all ran in this year's Cup and are among 16 entries for the Group Two race.
Ventura Storm fared best of the trio in the Cup finishing 10th, just ahead of Yucatan who was 11th while Who Shot Thebarman finished 17th.
Saturday's race was originally known as the Sandown Cup before being changed to weight-for-age and renamed the Sandown Classic in 1999.
It was again renamed in 2011 to recognise four-time winner, the Lloyd Williams- owned Zipping who won from 2007 to 2010.
Williams and his son Nick have five entries in this year's Zipping - including Yucatan, Homesman, Midterm, Sir Isaac Newton and 2017 winner The Taj Mahal.