TASMANIA’S leading apprentice Sigrid “Siggy” Carr will represent the state for the first time when she takes part in the next round of the National Apprentices Series at Hawkesbury meeting on Thursday.
Carr, who has ridden 30 winners since she was first licensed in October last year, is leading in the race for the apprentices premiership and she is likely to extend her lead of nine over last season’s titleholder Rasit Yetimova in Launceston tomorrow night.
Carr has fared well in the first of two apprentice’s races on Thursday.
She will partner the Garry Frazer-trained Easyone in race one and that three-year-old filly has won two of her past three starts with the latest being in a class one handicap at Hawkesbury two weeks ago.
The filly has drawn well in gate four and is expected to be one of the favourites behind the Gai Waterhouse-trained Magnetron that races in the Star Thoroughbred colours.
Carr also will ride Hickory for Rosehill trainer Anthony Olsen in the second apprentices race (five), a benchmark 65 handicap over 1600 metres.
It will be Hickory’s third run back from a spell and the distance will suit.
“I am really looking forward to representing Tasmania. I’m excited but nervous at the same time,” Carr said.
“It’s my first time away from the state and that they go the opposite way to us so will be quite an experience.”
“I’ve been lucky because the horses that I’m down to ride have good form so hopefully they can both figure in the finish,” she said.
Carr has taken all before her since she took her first ride in Hobart in mid October last year but her debut was as forgettable as it was memorable.
She partnered Summer Downs for her father, Brighton trainer Royston Carr, but the stirrup strap snapped midrace and it was only Carr’s impeccable horsemanship that prevented her from falling.
However she rode her first winner soon after and hasn’t looked back.
She has already reduced her claim to two kilograms but that will fall to 1-1/2 kg quickly if she continues to dominate as she has done these past couple of months.
Carr rode four winners on the eight-event card in Hobart last month and she was unlucky not to have ridden five.
She has a goods book of rides in Launceston tomorrow night with recent debut winner Sweet Ginger Brown in the opening race and Devon Lass (race 8), that she rode to victory two starts back in Launceston, her two best winning chances.