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Tassie star misses berth in Ladyship Mile

17 February 2015
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Last season’s star Tasmanian harness racing filly Barynya proved why she probably should be contesting next month’s Ladyship Mile by registering a record breaking win in the Charlton Cup last Sunday.

With experienced local driver John Caldow in the sulky, Barynya demolished a strong field in a sizzling rate of 1.56.5, which carved 3.3 seconds off the previous 2570-metre mark.

The Dick Eaves-trained four-year-old cruised to the front early and was never seriously threatened on her way to a two-and-a-half metre win from another Tasmanian-bred star Villagem, with multiple Charlton Cup winner Uncle Wingnut two-and-a-half metres away third.

Barynya was brilliant last season with the Tasmania and Victoria Oaks included in her 10 wins from 15 starts.

She also clinched four placings, ending her three-year-old season with a game second in the Breeders’ Crown Final behind Just Cala.

Eaves entered Barynya first-up in the Group Three Harness Breeders Ladyship Cup at Tabcorp Park Melton, which was one of the preferred qualifying races for the Ladyship Mile – considered the most prestigious mares’ race in Australia.

Unfortunately driver Rohan Hillier was a victim of circumstances in that event and the daughter of Blissfull Hall finished towards the tail of the field.

Unfazed by the first real blemish on her race record, connections nominated Barynya for another Ladyship Mile qualifying race at Menangle last weekend, but owner Lloyd Whish-Wilson explained how that turned sour.

“We entered her for the qualifying event at Menangle last Saturday, believing that with her high points tally for her outstanding form in last year’s major three-year-old events, and allowance for the interference in the Ladyship Cup at Melton, she would automatically get a start,” Whish-Wilson said.

“However HRNSW officials balloted her out, in their words because she did not have form against older horses.

“When I contacted them  I was told they did not work on the points for performance formula that Victoria and Tasmania use, and did not consider her faster times and higher prize-money won as sufficient justification to place her in the front of older mares.”

The Ladyship Mile field has been finalised and will be run at Menangle on March 1.

Barynya was named Australian Three-Year-Old Filly of the Year last season, and while she did miss a place in that Ladyship Mile qualifying event, there is no doubt she would have started one of the favourites had she been given ample opportunity to find a way into the race.

The winners of each of the selected qualifying events are guaranteed a start in the Ladyship Mile.

However, the conditions of the race then dictate that the balance of the field is selected from mares that competed in qualifying races held in New South Wales, one of which Barynya was denied a start.

If Barynya’s lack of form against older horses was the reason for her being balloted from the qualifying race at Menangle then she certainly proved that to be misjudged by thrashing her older rivals in the Charlton Cup.

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