Tasmanian bred horses had a fantastic year in 2014/15 season with the likes of The Cleaner, Banca Mo and Like A Carousel winning black type races in Victoria and Kenjorwood, Lucks A Fortune and Magus Lad all winning at Metropolitan venues.
When you also throw in the likes of Bunchloch, Happy as Hell and Dandy Gent, Tasmania’s reputation for producing tough, versatile and good value horses continues to grow.
This was again evident at the first metropolitan meeting of the new season when once again Tasmanian bred horses came to the fore.
Three Tasmanian bred horses turned up at the Valley and walked away for two wins and a minor placing.
Valiant Warrior (West Quest – Fast Ride) a $9,500 purchase from Grenville Stud was super impressive wining race 6 beating the highly fancied Tawteen. The 4yo gelding trained by Adam Trinder and owned by Wayne Roser has now had 10 starts for 7 wins and $180,000 in prizemoney.
Valiant Warrior will continue his preparation in Melbourne before returning home possibly for a crack at the Listed $100k Newmarket Handicap in November.
In a Tasmanian bred, race to race double, the Darren Weir trained Lake Sententia won her first race since June 2013 when talking out the Jeep Handicap over 1600m. The 7yo mare by California Dane – Talk of Egypt was a $30,000 purchase from the Brooklyn Park draft in 2010 and was bought by Darren Weir and is raced by long time Tasmanian sale supporter John Richards. Lake Sententia has now won 7 of her 22 starts and $375,000 including the Listed Centaurea Stakes at Morphettville in 2013.
In the opening event the Armidale Stud bred filly Grisbi’s Run ran on strongly from back in the pack for third placing behind the promising Petits Filous. By the ill-fated stallion Savoire Vivre (GB) from Grisbi, the filly was knocked down to Redgum Racing for $30,000 at the 2014 sale. Trained by John McArdle she has won 2 of her 6 starts for $45,000 in prizemoney.
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