special day for Cummings family
Trekking won the Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm. It was the first time since Sincero won in 2011 that there has been a Straddbrok winner at single-figure odds. James Cummings has his first Strattbroker. His father Anthony had earlier won a Group I JJ Atkins. The Bostonian bumbled the start and finished 11th. The New Zealand galloper is aiming for a winter carnival three-peat. Tommy Berry rode runner-up Tyzone. Tony Pike trained third-placed finisher Endless Drama. He also trained the horse that won JJ. Atkins earlier.