By Colin Hodges.

Blackhill Kitty, runner up to Bush Warrior in the Picnic Championship Final at Coonamble last year, won the 1400 metres Lane Cove Legends-Doug & Jill Allen Memorial Grenfell Picnic Cup on Saturday for Dubbo trainer Connie Greig.

In front of a big crowd at Grenfell, the Cup was a good spectacle with Namarari winner of the recent Picnic Cups at Crookwell and Yass, leading the 8 horse field from Incantata and Blackhill Kitty.

Reaching the lead in the straight, Blackhill Kitty (Leandro Ribeiro, $3.50 equal favourite) won by almost a length from Hit Song (Arthur Pollock, $4) with four lengths to Incantata (Tamsin Gough, $6).

The other legs of a winning treble for Connie Greig were Stromness in the 1000 metres Mawhood’s IGA Maiden Plate and Joshua in the Cooper Civil & Crushing--Presidents Cup Class 1 Trophy Handicap which at 2150 metres is the longest race at the Picnics in NSW.

Ridden a good front running race by Todd Bailey, Joshua ($4.40) held on to beat Son O’ War (Paul Zerafa, $4.60) and Allande ( Leandro Ribeiro, $1.50 favourite).

Starting the $1.40 favourite, Stromness (Leandro Ribeiro) set the pace and survived a late challenge to win from Sweet And Sour (Anaelle Gangotena, $3.50) and Flirty (Emily Waters, $4).

From the Warren Ganderton stable at Nowra, Artieos (Dylan Parrott, $3.20) established a good lead in the 1000 metres CL Commodities Picnic Bracelet and scored by nearly five lengths from Joanneski (Arthur Pollock, $1.70 favourite) and Rebel Love (Todd Bailey, $5).

The other winners were Spirit Lake (Anaelle Gangotena, $2.60 favourite) trained by Darrell Burnett at Wagga and the Nikki Pollock, Scone trained One Command (Arthur Pollock, $1.60 favourite).

As is customary at Grenfell, trainers were exceptionally well looked after with a big range of additional bonuses including special prizes for even the last horse to finish in each race.

Bourke Picnics are on Easter Sunday along with a Mudgee (TAB) meeting.

Blackhill Kitty, trained by Connie Greig, won the 1400 metres Lane Cove Legends Doug & Jill Allen Memorial Grenfell Picnic Cup on Saturday for Dubbo trainer Connie Greig.

More photos from the social scene of the Grenfell Picnic Races to come.