Captain Red Tin’s 23.24 seconds all the way win by 6½ lengths in the Carlin & Gazzard TG1-4W Stake (400 metres) at Tara Raceway last Thursday set the time standard for this month’s short-course Fast Forward series.

With five heats decided, the fastest eight, irrespective of finishing position, advanced to Thursday’s Category 2 prize money final – the five winners, two seconds and one third, as it turned out.

Owned by the Nineofus Syndicate and trained at Allendale East by David Peckham, Captain Red Tin completed a good week for the Bernardo x Dusseldorp litter after Peckham’s Bourne Nicko won up the straight at Murray Bridge on the Tuesday.

And Bourne Nicko also won a 512 metre Fast Forward series in May when defeating Hannah Rocks in 30.29 seconds.

Fast Forward (400 m) winners for the first half of the year have been Master Shameem (Nicole Stanley) 23.02, Jive Queen (David Peckham) 23.03, Bungaloo Rachele (John Little) 23.42, Honey Rocks (Tracie Price) 22.90, Jayville Zorro (Tracie Price) 22.95 and Gypsy Chick (Jason Newman) 23.35.

Meanwhile, the Scott Blacksell owned and trained Mocambora Izza ran a personal best time of 23.11 seconds when leading all the way in the Trackside Pet Meats Pick 6 TG5+W Stake (400 m) for a 1¼ length win over Cadillac Star.

Also on track to enjoy the win were Blacksell’s grandkids Archie, Sienna and Georgie. And young Archie, standing at the finishing line, certainly didn’t hold back – punching the air wildly with a fist in an obvious display of delight.

By My Redeemer out of Raz’s Girl – a winner of 12 races over 400 metres at Tara Raceway – Mocambora Izza, also now a winner of 12 races, was purchased as a four-month-old pup from Peckham. She was then reared at Blacksell and partner Jude Tait’s Cape Bridgewater property.