O’Shea and McDonald get 4 winners with Havana Cooler in Doncaster Prelude

Trainer John O’Shea combined with stable jockey James McDonald to collect four winners at Rosehill today when Havana Cooler stormed home to take out the Group 3 $150,000 Hyland Race Colours Doncaster Prelude (1500m).

Doncaster Prelude winner Havana Cooler was the 4th winner for the day at Rosehill for trainer John O’Shea and jockey James McDonlad. Photo by Steve Hart.

Havana Cooler was having his first run back since running third in the Group 3 $300,000 Lexus Stakes (2500m) at Flemington on the first day of the 2015 Melbourne Cup Carnival and a first class training performance from O’Shea saw the English import record his first win on Australian soil.

O’Shea and McDonald had teamed up earlier in the day to record wins with Federal in the Security Handicap (1400m), It’s Somewhat in the Group 3 $150,000 The Daily Telegraph Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) and with Old North in the Group 2 $175,000 Tulloch Stakes (2000m).

“All our horses really ran well and we are really happy with how they turned up,” O’Shea said.

“James was at his stellar best today which is always good to have him like that.”

“It was a wonderful team effort.”

Havana Cooler will now be set for the Group 2 $300,000 Brisbane Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm during the Brisbane Winter Carnival and O’Shea will now have to map out a program for the six year old stayer.

“That is ultimately where he is headed. Just on how we get there I don’t know,” O’Shea said.

“We will just space his runs every three weeks and he will have a couple of more runs before going there.”

McDonald settled Havana Cooler ($7.50) in the second half of the field and he finished too strongly to beat Cosmic Cube ($6.50) by a neck with Rudy ($10) fighting to the line for third a further half a length away.

Sadler’s Lake ($5.50) was sent out as the favourite even though he had drawn the outside barrier but after crossing to the front, faded in the straight to wind up in tenth spot.

Doncaster Prelude Results

Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Starting Price
1	9	HAVANA COOLER (IRE)	John O’Shea	James McDonald	–	3	54.5kg	$7.50
2	14	COSMIC CUBE (NZ)	David Vandyke	Blake Spriggs	0.2L	9	54kg	$6.50
3	10	RUDY	Helen Page	Craig Williams	0.7L	8	54kg	$10
4	15	SNIPPETS LAND	Peter & Paul Snowden	Thomas Huet	0.8L	6	54kg	$15
5	5	AMOVATIO	Chris Waller	Damien Oliver	1.5L	15	56kg	$8.50
6	6	HAWKSPUR	Chris Waller	Jason Collett	1.6L	10	56kg	$101
7	2	BEATEN UP (GB)	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	2.3L	4	57kg	$9
8	11	DANCES ON STARS (NZ)	Gerald Ryan	Tim Clark	2.4L	7	54kg	$6
9	4	MORIARTY (IRE)	Chris Waller	Opie Bosson	2.7L	12	56.5kg	$101
10	8	SADLER’S LAKE	Chris Waller	Blake Shinn	3.2L	16	55kg	$5.50F
11	3	ROCK STURDY	Joseph Pride	Dwayne Dunn	3.4L	14	57kg	$9
12	7	INDEX LINKED (GB)	Chris Waller	Glyn Schofield	3.8L	2	56kg	$101
13	13	SHOREHAM	Gerald Ryan	Brenton Avdulla	3.9L	13	54kg	$61
14	16	SPY DECODER (NZ)	Anthony Cummings	Daniel Moor	4.3L	11	54kg	$26
15	12	MAGICOOL	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	4.4L	1	54kg	$31
16	17	TREMEC (NZ)	John P Thompson	Craig Newitt	6.9L	5	54kg	$101