De Campo Dominant In Westbred Heats

27 August 2025 | Ashleigh Paikos
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Wishing Belle

Wishing Belle Photo by Pacepix

Wishing Belle further asserted her two-year-old dominance, with the filly unstoppable in her heat of the 2YO Westbred Classic on Tuesday night at Gloucester Park.

The Aiden De Campo trained and reined stand out started from barrier eight in heat 2 on the night, with De Campo pressing forward from release point, leading throughout and kicking away to win confidently by 17.1m in a winning mile rate of 1:57:1.

With a picket fence next to her name, her connections will be looking to go seven in a row next Friday night when she contests the $215,000 Gr1 Westbred Classic, and barring any bad luck, the daughter of Bettors Wish USA will be hard to beat.

With just the two heats for the fillies, the first six across the line on Tuesday night secured their position in the Westbred Classic, with Im Category Five too good in heat 1 for father and daughter, Colin and Maddison Brown.

2YO Fillies Field:

Altas Last

Crunchnsip

El Raes Girl

Im Category Five

Ma Petite Dame

Maas Attack

Shes Super Charged

Skyhigh Adda

Slay Queen

Trixie Dora

Wishing Belle

Drop The Ace

The Sea Siren (EM1)

Shoo Boozy (EM2)

De Campo qualified three fillies for the final, with Altas Last finishing third in heat 1 and El Raes Girl finishing in sixth in heat 2 on the night.

Stablemate Shoo Boozy who finished in seventh place is the second emergency for the final.

The Westbreds have been De Campo’s bread and butter for many seasons now and this year is no different, with De Campo qualifying four horses for the 2YO Colts and Geldings Westbred Classic.

Bettor Move Matty was on his best behaviour last night when he took out heat 1.

With indiscretions at his past two attempts, he redeemed himself last night, with De Campo working forward in the early stages to lead all the way, with Wake Up Geoff and El Mystro finishing in second and third placings.

The stable took out heat 2 with Bettor Behave, giving sire Bettors Wish NZ a double on the night.

The third heat saw Pearl Classic winner Ideal Beach warrant his $1.02 starting price, with the Justin Prentice trained and Gary Hall Jnr driven American Ideal USA colt dictating terms for the majority of the 2130m trip.

De Campo finished in second and third placing in heat 3, with Wheelsofortune and American Machine getting their ticket to next weeks final at Gloucester Park.

The C&G Field:

American Machine

Bettor Behave

Bettor Move Matty

Butter Me Up

Cease To React

Chugach

El Mystro

Ideal Beach

Wheelsofortune

Toby George

Wake Up Geoff

Waves Of Fortune

Last King Of Capel (EM1)

Arma Mushu (EM2)

Tune into TABradio Monday, September 1 from 9am with the barrier draw live on air with Matt Young.

 

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