Paul Perry's love affair with the Quirindi Cup has continued, with the gun Newcastle trainer winning his third Cup in four years after Nothing Too Hard's triumph in the 1600-metre race at Scone on Friday.
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The eight-race TAB meeting was transferred to Scone after the Quirindi track was made unsafe by rain.
The Perry-trained San Francisco beat local hope Vega de Lago in the 2019 Quirindi Cup.
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On Friday, five-year-old gelding Nothing Too Hard (Mikayla Weir) edged the Rodney Robb-trained A Magic Zariz (Clayton Gallagher), with the Wayne Collison-trained A Martin Placepick (Jake Pracey-Holmes) half a length behind the winner in third place.
Perry won the 2017 Quirindi Cup with Secret Web. All up, he believes he has won the race "four or five". "We've won a fair few," he said.
Perry summed up the race thus: "They raced, I thought, a bit on speed. "And he [Nothing Too Hard] probably had to be ridden a bit closer [to the front] than probably normal, and he raced a bit deep. I thought it was a game win."
Perry praised apprentice Weir's performance. "I thought she rode him well," he said. "You know, she done what she was told to do and let him flow into the race. She was handy when she had to be."
Nothing Too Hard - who paid $10 for the win (TAB fixed odds) - now has four wins form 39 starts, for almost $146,000 in prize money. He returned from a five-week spell with a second placing over 1500m at Newcastle on February 8. Perry described that run as "terrific".