In Brief
- Rock The Casbolt lucky to be alive.
- Hector back in the winner's list.
- Yole trains four of the nine winners.
Rock The Casbolt is lucky to be alive, let alone winning races.
In 2018 the Deborah Williams-trained pacer underwent Colic Surgery with staff from the Longford Equine Clinic, Tasmanian Equine Veterinary Services Group and the Williams stable nursing the pacer back to the track.
Rock The Casbolt after a life saving operation conducted by the Longford Equine Clinic in 2018.
On Sunday night in Hobart, the seven-year-old gelded son of Rocknroll Hanover, recorded his second win of the season, to go along with his three placings from five tries when given a lovely drive by Ricky Duggan.
From barrier four the reinsman took the $4.00 chance straight to the lead and dictated affairs to hold off a late challenge by Jocund in a mile rate of 2m 1.8s.
The win was the first leg of a driving double for Duggan who scored on the Darryl Bates- trained Streetside Classic in the final race of the night.
Six-year-old Art Major gelding Call Me Hector bounced back into the winner’s list with a courageous win in the Crown Lager Pace.
Trainer-driver Matthew Cooper took the $2.80 chance straight to the lead and was allowed to get some comfortable sections early with the lead time run in 36.1s, before registering a 64.1s first half of the final mile.
Cooper allowed the pacer to run down the back in 29.6s before being clearly headed at the 400-metre mark before lifting again in the home straight in a 27.8s final section, to defeat the $2.20 favourite Lip Reader and Sea Double Ugrant.
Trainer Ben Yole had a night out with four winners on the nine-race card.
Yole’s winners were Oneofthelads (Troy McDonald) who broke through for a deserved win in race two, My Celebrity (Rohan Hadley) who found a gap to score in race five where only 5.4 metres separated the 12 horse field, Nine Diamonds (Troy McDonald) who was too good for her rivals first-up from a break before Earl Jujon (Gareth Rattray) scored a handy win in race eight.
Watch Call Me Hector lift off the canvas to score in the Crown Lager Pace.