Dyer On Top With Hawk's Bay
- Friday, 24 July 2009 00:00
After winning the Darwin Guineas the previous week with Hawk's Bay, the duo were back in the winner's circle again on Saturday taking out the Derby.
Now it is all stops out for the Darwin Cup over 2000 metres, and the $100,000 bonus attached to the race.
The Cup could not go to a more deserving cause than Dyer, he has been a great battler, and would have to be to tackle the 3,700 kilometre trip up the "Red Centre" to Darwin.
The team left sometime on the Sunday and arrived on the Wednesday afternoon non the worse for wear but preferred to stand up for a while rather than accept an easy chair for obvious reasons.
Naturally there are no immediate plans for Hawk's Bay, like the team that took him to Darwin, they may all be looking for a bit of a break.
Distance has never really bothered Dyer in all those years at Kyneton, he is still a regular around Millicent, Penola and Naracoorte over the border in South Australia.
He has a philosophy of taking a horse where it can win, there is no point in bringing home a loser.
Mrs Bentley is possibly the best horse he has trained, then there are some that say "the best winner was the last one".