A close third in Friday's Mudgee Cup was Slick Sniper, a 5-year-old gelding raced by a partnership, including his breeders Roger and Nerida Atkinson of Yeoval, and trained at Mudgee by Tracey Bartley.

Prior to Friday's engagement, Slick Sniper had won 8 of 23 starts including appearances in Sydney, Newcastle and Sunshine Coast.

He is mentioned specifically as 24 hours after missing out on the Mudgee Cup, the Andersons and the Bartley stables attoned for the loss on the other side of the continent in fine style, winning the $500,000 Group 1 Kingston Town Classic with Slick Sniper's year-older brother Sniper's Bullet.

It was the second successive big win in Perth in a fortnight for Sniper's Bullet as he took out the million dollar Railway Stakes on November 21.

That was his first win since he scored in the Stradbroke in June 2007, but he placed in some big races since then including the Kingston Town and Railway in 2008.

Sniper's Bullet and Slick Sniper are both by the American bred sire Bite the Bullet, a resident at Michael Fitzgerald's Bengalla stud, Muswellbrook, and from a daughter of Yallah Prince, a handy sprinter who stood for at time at the Kendel Park stid, near Willow Tree on the northern fringe of the Hunter Valley when it was owned by Newcastle motor dealer Ken Delforce.

One of the horses Ken bred and initially raced in the Hunter Valley, Daka's Gem, tailed the field home in the Queen's Cup over 2400m at Saturday's Perth meeting.

It was an effort that suggests it is time this 10-year-old gelding was retired.

He has been a good and faithful servant, racing to date 97 times for 15 wins and $753,000.

He has won stakes races in Western Australia and Victoria.

Delforce stood Daka's Gem's sire Sedaka, a non winning half-brother by Danehill to Lonhro now standing in Tasmania.

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