Courtesy of The West Australian website:

Unfancied six-year-old Yelmar Boy (20/1) and strong grey stayer Money Is Magic (11/2) fought out a dramatic dead-heat in yesterday's $100,000 Swan Draft Bunbury Cup.

The judges studied photo-finish prints for almost 10 minutes before declaring the result to a record crowd of 11,500.

Yelmar Boy's jockey, Paul King, performed a victory salute at the winning post, thinking he had scored outright.

King, 34, said he decided to drop Yelmar Boy back from his outside barrier. "We had to come round the whole field and it was a great performance," he said. "I thought on the line we had won."

Money Is Magic's trainer, Colin Webster, 62, who has trained four Bunbury Cup winners outright, said he had set Money Is Magic specifically for the Pinjarra and Bunbury cups double.

"He ran a good second at Pinjarra and we thought he'd run a top race today," he said.

"We lunged at Yelmar Boy right on the line but I thought we must have been beaten when Paul King waved a victory salute to our jockey Troy Turner. I was very happy to get a dead heat result."

Webster figured in his second feature event dead-heat of the season. Last spring the Webster-trained Eastern Standard dead-heated for first in the Coolgardie Cup with Lawmaker.

Webster won Bunbury Cups with Beau Heed (twice), Preened and Rogan Josh.

Turner, 28, shared in Webster's Bunbury Cup wins with Beau Heed and Rogan Josh.

Money Is Magic was bred by Jill Lewis who has leased shares in the four-year-old to Webster, Harry Bowling and Russell Kirkham.

Yelmar Boy was bred by Albany owner/trainer Kevin Smith, 74, and the horse is raced in partnership with Smith's son Alan.

The first dead-heat of the Bunbury Cup was recorded 11 years ago when the judge could not separate Feverish and Hard Act.

Last Saturday night's Bunbury Pacing Cup also featured a dead-heat for first.

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