LEILANI SERIES This series for mares is named for Leilani, another Bart Cummings-trained champion who left an indelible print on Australian racing. Leilani won the 1974 AJC Oaks as a three-year-old before transforming into a dominant four-year-old race mare, winning the Turnbull Stakes, Toorak Handicap, Caulfield Cup and Mackinnon Stakes in the spring of 1974, before running a gallant second to stablemate Think Big in the Melbourne Cup. In the ensuing autumn, Leilani won the Orr Stakes, St George Stakes and Australian Cup, among other races. Winning 14 of her 28 starts, Leilani was a horse that Cummings was very fond of; so much so that he named his Sydney stables Leilani Lodge in her honour. Although Cummings was not one to talk much about his horses - especially those in the past as he preferred to look forward - it is well-known that he had huge respect for Leilani, known as a great horse with great fight. Leilani was raced by prominent Melburnians, The Hon Andrew and Mrs Susan Peacock as well as Mr Ian and Mrs Liz Rice. SILVER BOWL SERIES This series is for three-year-old milers with heats over distances of 1300m-1600m held across Melbourne at Flemington, Caulfield and Sandown. The final is a $150,000 quality handicap over 1600m on Flemington Finals Day. RIVETTE SERIES This series is aimed at three-year-old fillies over the 1200m-1400m distance and takes in heats across metropolitan and country venues. It is named in honour of Rivette, who as a six-year-old mare owned and trained by Harry Bamber at Mentone, emerged from obscurity in the spring of 1939 to become the first of her gender to capture the coveted Caulfield- Melbourne Cup double. By the time the great race started, Rivette was into 5-1 favouritism in a field of 26 horses. She won by a half-length in a time of
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