Glenkenick upsets to win maiden

Race Three at the Winton Harness Racing Club meeting today at the Central Southland Raceway was a bit of a slug fest and in a tight finish the Jeremy Douglas trained Glenkenick (Always B Miki) proved he was tougher than his rivals.

After two of the more favoured runners Flashpoint and Mystery Beach got back, Douglas’s son Hayden slotted Glenkenick back on the inside running line.

Flashpoint and Mystery Beach had to do a lot of work to firstly tag onto the back of the group and then circle the field with 1200 metres to run.

While Flashpoint and Mystery Beach were up softening the leader Dawn To Dark, Douglas plotted a path down on the inside of the pair. Just as Mystery Beach mastered Flashpoint, Glenkenick got up to win by a nose with three quarters of a length back to Flashpoint.

GLENKENICK REPLAY

“He’s always had a lot of bottom to him and hardly ever stops in his races. The heavy track today has slowed everyone down to his speed I think. It certainly feels like he will get speed eventually,” Jeremy said.

Glenkenick was bred by Brent and Sheree McIntyre from Macca Lodge.

“They (Macca Lodge) were having trouble getting him going so I thought I’d have a crack because he was well bred. When we got him he started growing. He’s gone from fifteen hands to sixteen two. Once he fills into his frame I think he’ll develop into not a bad horse. He tries but he just hasn’t grown a brain yet.”

Glenkenick Lodge is raced in lease by the Setarip and Appleby syndicates.

“Setarip owns sixty percent of him. The other forty is owned by the guys in the Appleby Cricket Club and that’s their first horse.”

by Bruce Stewart, for Harnesslink

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