Quothquan targets another country cup success

The 2025 Townsville Cup winner Quothquan will attempt to add the 2026 Rockhampton Cup to his resume on Saturday.

The John Dann trained son of Rothesay comes into the race on the back of a Class 6 win over 1350m on Ipswich Cup day, three weeks ago, where he raced first-up after a three-month break from race action.

The six-year-old had been given that break because he had appeared to have come to the end of his five-start last preparation with an unplaced finish in the Gold Coast Stakes.

Quothquan’s fifteen starts prior to that Gold Coast Stakes run though … dating back to March 2025 … shows the high level of consistency achieved by the Dann-trained runner.

The return on those fifteen runs was three wins, two second places, five third places and four fourth-place finishes … the only ‘miss’ coming in the Gold Coast Stakes.

Those results came over distances ranging from 1200m to 2000m, on both good and soft going, at no less than seven different race-tracks, so the gelding’s honest commitment to the cause cannot be questioned and it comes supplemented by Dann’s proven ability to send his runners out primed to perform fitness-wise.

Dylan Turner, who partnered Quothquan in that Townsville Cup victory, gets back on the gelding for what will be only the second time in the gelding’s seven starts since that Townsville success.

They will jump from barrier 10 in a field of 13 runners as a $10 chance.

The Rodney Hay-trained Give Me Space tops the betting at $4.20 ahead of the local hope, the Alisha Taylor-trained Pepperdine at $5.50, who will be looking to keep the major share of the $150,000 prize-money at home.

Trainer Ricky Vale will have the same ambition. He sends out Pipistrelle, the only other Rockhampton-based runner in the Rockhampton Cup line-up. The mare is an $18 chance.