Flaming Moon scorches them at Orange

*Article by John Curtis for hawkesburyraceclub.com.au

Hawkesbury trainers are on a roll at present, with four winners last Saturday followed up by another two at the Orange meeting.

As well as O’Halloran, Ed Cummings (who scored with the promising Exfortythree at Kembla) also won with another Mitchell Bell mount Flaming Moon.

A clever Bell ride paved the way for Flaming Moon ($2.90 favorite) to easily take the Benchmark 58 Handicap (2100m) to give Cummings his seventh success of the season.

A four-year-old daughter of Too Darn Hot, Flaming Moon appreciated dropping back to country grade and was too good for her rivals.

She had broken through in a 1400m Nowra Plate last February when prepared by Cummings’ father Anthony at Randwick.

Flaming Moon was an $80,000 purchase for Ed Cummings’ Myrtle House as a 2023 Inglis Classic yearling.

Image Courtesy of Bradley Photos