Shooting To Win came within a half-length of siring another Group 1 winner when Payline flew from last to be placed in the BRC Doomben 10,000 (1200m) on Saturday but there was a consolation prize for the Oakland Park stallion at Belmont.
His Bullsbrook-based mare Camera Action also hoisted a wet sail to win the $100,000 WA Provincial Championship Final (1400m) on the opening day of the Belmont season for owner-breeder Wally Daly.
Camera Action (4m Shooting To Win – Femmette by Murtajill) was given plenty of time to mature and didn’t open her account until last September when racing first-up in the Tom Cullen Memorial Maiden (1100m) in Kalgoorlie.
She doubled up to win at Belmont off a 10-day turnaround and Saturday’s feature win was also accomplished off a 6-day back-up following the Provincial Championship Heat at Northam.
“She ran a super race and looked home at Northam,” co-trainer Sean Casey said. “But she got beat by Manhattan Strip who got out of the ground late for Willie Pike. She’s a big, strong, long-striding mare and will eventually get a mile.
“And I was very impressed with Brayden Gaerth today. He rode her to the letter.”
Daly bred and raced Shooting To Win’s G1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) winner Dom To Shoot and Camera Action also sports his Pink and Blue checked colours. Daly and his trainer brother George, who died in 2020, bought into her family nearly 30 years ago and since then it’s been a productive bottom line in Perth.
Camera Action’s third-dam Guinevere (Agincourt) was a $16,000 buy for the brothers at an Inglis Sydney Yearling Sale in 1997. She was placed twice in a sole juvenile campaign before retiring to stud where her foals included Refemme (Surtee) who was a Listed winner of the 2004 Gimcrack Stakes (1100m).
Refemme is the dam of Shooting To Win’s black-type performer Charlton Eddie and Femmette who won a Westspeed 2YO Plate at Ascot. Camera Action is the first winner for Femmette and the mare has a yearling colt by Gingerbread Man.
Oakland Park is standing Shooting To Win for $6,600 this year alongside Ingratiating ($9,900) and Sessions ($9,900). Service fees (inc GST).