Cape Falls Thoroughbreds owner Brett Fogarty is on fire this season with his multiple winning homebreds Hot And High, Hoba West and Salty Miss.

Unbeaten 3yo filly Hot And High (Too Darn Hot) completed a hat-trick in last month’s LR Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic (1400m) at Ascot and the Wilyabrup nursery bookended Saturday’s Gold Rush card with Hoba West (Epaulette) and Salty Miss (Astern).

Hoba West went out an odds-on favourite for the Bisley Workwear Hcp (1800m) and was never in danger leading from go-to-whoa under Austin Galati to score by over a length from Freedom Escape (Hallowed Crown) and Audio Boy (Sessions).

That made it four wins in six starts since transferring to a beach environment at Summer Dickson’s stable in Port Kennedy.  “He thinks it’s a holiday here and he’s a pleasure to train,” Dickson said.  “Brett told me he would get over ground and I thought that might be a bit tricky but he was dead on the money.

“He’s been in work for a while but he’s an athlete, light on his feet and recovers quickly.  We will nominate him for the Perth Cup and he should get out to 2400m bowling along with that big stride.”

The G2 Perth Cup (2400m) carries prizemoney of $1 million on New Year’s Day.

Fogarty had purchased his dam Hoba (Northern Meteor) for $65,000 from Patinack Farm at the 2012 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale.  Retired unraced, she foaled earlier winners Hoba Meteor (Smart Missile), South Hoba (Astern) and Southstar (Reset) and her latest is a colt by Newgate Farm sire In The Congo (Snitzel).

Salty Miss made amends after a couple of recent losses for Cape Falls and trainer Tiarnna Noske when she ran down Magnique (Magnus) in the TABtouch Bet Loop Hcp (1200m).

A Northam maiden winner in October, she had excuses at her previous start when fifth to Glanced (Pierro) at Belmont.  “We threw her in at the deep end after Northam,” stable spokesman Jarrod Noske said.  “And she was coming off a three-week break between runs last time and got away from us.”

Winning jockey Troy Turner also reported she rubbed her nose-band off in the barrier and it was probably put back on a bit low which interrupted her breathing in running.  “She was a bit hot early on but Tiarnna and Jarrod have done a good job sorting that out.  I think she can train on and be a nice horse.”

Salty Miss is the first foal to race from Cape Lady (Charge Forward) who won a Bunbury 3yo maiden on debut for Fogarty and trainer Simon Miller.  She is a half-sister to Seannie (Sebring) who won a LR Supremacy Stakes (1000m) for the same connections in 2017 before transferring to Melbourne where she won at Moonee Valley and followed up with a Group 3 placing in the MVRC the Typhoon Tracy Stakes (1000m).

Her homebred son Hot Sea (Too Darn Hot) was Group 3 placed in the Chairman’s Stakes (1000m) at Sandown Lakeside at his only 2yo outing earlier last season.  Seannie also has a yearling colt by Darley sire Bivouac.