WA Pacing Cup winner joins Stanley's Burrumbeet stable

The last-start WA Cup winner will have his first start for Stanley in the $500,000 AG Hunter Cup, 2760m, at Melton on Saturday, February 3.

He will then target Soho Tribeca at the $750,000 Miracle Mile in Sydney on February 25.

Myrniong-based Greg Sugars, who has taken on the role of number one stable driver for Stanley, will take the reins.  

Stanley has a close association with Soho Tribeca’s breeder and owner Robert Watson, who owns the “Soho” Standardbred empire.

Stanley has been training for Watson for several years, enjoying success at group level.

This is not the first time Soho Tribeca has spent time at Stanley’s Burrumbeet stable.

His former trainer Kim Prentice used Stanley’s property as a base when he campaigned Soho Tribeca in the Vicbred Super Series last year.

Soho Tribeca, which has won 19 of 50 starts for $880,000 in earnings, joins Stanley off the back of an expansive WA campaign.

He won two Inter-Dominion heats and finished second in a third before running sixth in the final in December, and has three starts since, culminating in the WA Cup victory.

BIG milestone for Michelle Payne at Ararat on Sunday - training her first winning double.

Silver Pathfinder ($4.80) scored in a benchmark58 for fillies and mares, 1300m, and De Kurnell ($20) in a benchmark58 for entires/geldings, 1300m, in back-to-back races.

Jockey Jordan Childs shared the double.

Formerly trained by Brad Cole at Bendigo, Silver Pathfinder was having her third start for Payne and now has two win 13 starts.

De Kurnell is also a newcomer to Payne's Ballarat team, having previously been with David Pfieffer in New South Wales.'

This was her second outing for Payne and third career win.

Payne has a career training strike rate of 10 per cent with six wins since taking out a dual riding/training licence at the start of last season.

DARREN Weir is quickly closing in his 200^th win for the season.

He had a win at Terang on Tuesday to move to 196 - 182 in Victoria.