Blake Hughes hits season ton with double

Cessnock driver Blake Hughes hit a century of winners for the season and edged ahead in the Newcastle harness racing premiership with a double on Friday night.

Hughes won on Soho Sinatra for boss Clayton Harmey and the Joseph Rees-trained Mammals Riddle to reach 100 statewide in 2019-20. It put him one ahead of Tom Ison in the Newcastle premiership. Ison had one win, on Roy Roots jnr-trained Artful Jack. Ison leads the state concession drivers' title on 104, four up on Hughes.

Harmey, the runaway leader in the Newcastle trainers' premiership, also had a double on Friday night.

Three-year-old Soho Sinatra was victorious on debut for the Cessnock stable before Gold Reactor won with Leigh Sutton in the gig.

Four meetings remain in the season at Newcastle Paceway, which races again on Friday night.

By Craig Kerry

Reprinted with permission of The Newcastle Herald