Bad Boys a Very Good Boy in NT Derby

Cape Cross colt Bad Boys sent his prizemoney earnings soaring for his connections yesterday when he scored a comprehensive win in the $101,200 Skycity NT Derby (2000m) at Fannie Bay in Darwin.

Prepared by Murray Bridge horseman John Hickmott, Bad Boys romped to a five length win over Just Don't Ask, while Filamony was another length and a half back in third place.

The win was the fourth win in 18 starts for the gelding who's most recent success came in a three-year-old event at Cheltenham in Adelaide on May 20.

At the start before that win he finished well down the track in Obglo's listed Chairman's Stakes - the main lead up to the Group One SA Derby.

Bad Boys is one of seven winners from the stakes race fourth placed Main Reef mare Loreef - a half sister to On the House and the dams of stakes winners including Art of War, Nuryana and Centre Stalls.

The latter is a good young stallion based at Ralph and Linda Satchell's Willow Grove Stud at Woodside in the Adelaide Hills. Centre Stalls is the sire of this season's exciting Adelaide three-year-old Amyjaye Power.

Denistoun Park trainer Alex MacPherson played his part in getting the colt to Australia after purchasing him as a weanling in New Zealand.

He then sold the youngster, for what would have been an unfortunate loss, at the Victorian Horses in Training Sale at Moonee Valley where he was purchased by his current owners.

PICS - Jenny Barnes