Godolphin’s interim trainer Darren Beadman may be about to hand the reins over to James Cummings but the former hoop capped off a top Ipswich Cup Day on Saturday with Maternal and Kinshachi running the quinella in the Gai Waterhouse Classic 2017 results.

Earlier in the day Beadman and Godolphin took out the $60,000 Bundamba Plate (1100m) with race favourite Revenire, before dominating the card closer when Maternal also saluted for the punters in the $100,000 Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic (1350m).

Ridden by veteran Queensland hoop Jeff Lloyd, the four-year-old Street Cry mare jumped favourite in the Gai Waterhouse Classic, tipped to enjoy softer going at Ipswich after her lead-up ninth behind Bonny O’Reilly on a Good (4) Doomben track on June 3 in the Listed Helen Coughlan Stakes (1200m).

Jumping from the outside barrier (14) on Saturday, Maternal ($2.90) didn’t disappoint holding on narrowly to beat home the fellow Beadman-trained Kinshachi ($5) by a neck.

“I rode a lot for Gai over the years and to win her race gives me a great thrill,” Beadman told the media post-win on Saturday.

“And Jeff is a good mate of mine. We were both in Hong Kong at the same time and when I was riding for John Moore, he would often ride a lot of the lighter ones.

“He left a bit of meat on the bone for me!

“He’s riding like a 20-year-old at the moment. He’s a legend.”

Rounding out the Gai Waterhouse Classic trifecta in third over two lengths further back was the Stuart Kendrick-trained Banda Spice ($13) ridden by leading Queensland apprentice Tiffani Brooker who won the Listed Eye Liner Stakes the race prior aboard the Darryl Hansen-trained Monsieur Gustave.

Beadman said that going forward on the well-bred Maternal proved the winning move on Ipswich Cup Day and that it was nice to tick-off the important Black-Type success with the mare.

“We wanted to ride her forward again today,” he said.

“That’s how she won at Sandown [over 1300m on April 17] and the same again at Doomben [over 1350m on May 13].

“So back up to the 1350m today we put her right there and she responded.

“For Maternal to win Black-Type is very deserving.”

Beadman is keeping the option open to run both Maternal and or Kinshachi at Doomben this coming Saturday in the $500,000 Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m).

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2017 Gai Waterhouse Classic Results & Finishing Order

Ipswich Race 9 – 17/06/2017

Place	#	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Br.	Wgt.	SP
1	5	MATERNAL	Darren Beadman	Jeff Lloyd	–	14	54.5kg	$2.90F
2	1	KINSHACHI	Darren Beadman	Damian Browne	0.2L	3	59kg	$5
3	4	BANDA SPICE	Stuart Kendrick	Ms Tiffani Brooker (a)	2.5L	7	54.5kg	$13
4	17e	SLUMBER PARTY	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Ms Tegan Harrison	2.7L	6	54kg	$12
5	14	MADAME DE BAN	Matthew Dunn	Corey Brown	2.9L	5	54kg	$21
6	2	I AM ZELADY	Joseph Pride	Glen Colless	3.2L	9	58kg	$8
7	11	MARAAM	Peter & Paul Snowden	James Orman	4L	13	54kg	$17
8	7	HERMOSA BEACH	Matthew Dale	Michael Cahill	4.3L	8	54kg	$26
9	8	QUEEN OF WANDS	Bryan & Daniel Guy	Paul Hammersley	5.6L	10	54kg	$26
10	15	BAROQUE GIRL	Scott Henley	Josh Oliver	7.6L	12	54kg	$81
11	10	LUCKY SHOW GIRL	Matthew Dunn	Ronnie Stewart	9.6L	1	54kg	$41
12	3	DEE NINE ELLE	Tony Gollan	Jim Byrne	10.6L	4	55kg	$9.50
13	16	ROUND MOUNTAIN GAL	Philip Kimmet	Andrew Spinks	11.4L	11	54kg	$151
14	18e	GALWAY TOWN	Kellie Monckton	Ms Bridget Grylls	16.2L	2	54kg	$301
–	6	NOTONYOURLIFE	Tony Gollan	Robbie Fradd	–	0	–	–
–	9	MY LITTLE FLICKA	Ben Ahrens	–	–	0	–	–
–	12	ABOHAR	Richard Laming	–	–	0	–	–
–	13	CRIQUETTE	Kelso Wood & Patricia Gesler	Micheal Hellyer	–	0	–	–