GALANT NSW sprinter-miler Youthful Jack made it back-to–back wins in the $100,000 weight-for-age Tatsbet.com Thomas Lyons Stakes over 1400 metres at Tattersall’s Park in Hobart on Sunday.
With his veteran jockey Robert Thompson aboard, Youthful Jack stormed home from near last on the home turn to score a runaway win over Cellarmaster and local mare My Temptation.
Youthful jack came to Tasmania last year and cleaned up the triple crown of sprint-mile weight-for-age races during the carnival that comprised the Tattsbet.com Stakes (1200m), Thomas Lyons and the George Adams (1600m) in Launceston.
He missed a place in this year’s Tattsbet.com stakes but he is well on the way to capturing two of the three features this time in.
The seven-year-old gelding is owned and raced by his NSW trainer Ross Stitt and Geoff Sheedy and trained during his Tasmanian campaign by Spreyton-based mentor Adam Trinder.
Trinder was thrilled with the win and admitted the gelding needed the outing in the Tattsbet.com Stakes to have him at his peak for the last two features during the carnival.
“He had two runs in NSW before coming to me and he probably went into the Tattsbet.com Stakes a but underdone but he has come on in leaps and bounds since that race and what we saw today was what we had expected in all three races that were planned for him in Tasmania,” Trinder said.
The win put Youthful Jack into an elite group as the $60,000 first prize money took his career earnings to beyond $1 million.
Thompson has had a great association with Youthful Jack having partnered the gelding to all of his 17 wins.
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