Kelly gunning it in Aussie

Gore owner Paul Pearce hadn’t intended to send his harness racing mare Braeview Kelly (Bettor’s Delight) to Australia, but it’s proved to be a bit of a master stroke.

From six race starts for her new trainer Jack Trainor she’s won five and recorded a career best mile time of 1-50.6.

“I never thought I’d send her over there. Mark (Jones) had been on to me to send her. I was dialling the stud (to book Braeview Kelly to Captaintreacherous). I hung up. I couldn’t go through with it,” he said.

Pearce says he’s unsure how long Braeview Kelly will stay in Australia but he says the horse will tell him that. 

“I said to Jack two things. Put the horse before the owners, she has to come home (after she finishes racing).”

This time last year Braeview Kelly was struggling to find form and trainer Mark Jones couldn’t pinpoint what the problem was, so she was sent to the vets to be scoped.

“She had a weak muscle in her throat. They scolded it and when you do that it becomes hard. I talked to Lindsay Colwell (vet) about it, and she said the longer you turn the horse out afterwards the better, so she was out for eleven weeks. It was the best thing. It’s definitely worked.”  

He said he and wife Mandy are heading back to Australia on Friday. The horse won’t race this Friday but will line up on October 8th.

“If everything is going okay the $100,000 Queen of the Pacific at Melton is on the 29th of October. Emma Stewart’s good mare Lady In Red is likely to be there, but you have to come up against these good horses at some stage.”

In a podcast “On the Pace” Trainor told Michael Guerin that her last win was her best.

“It’s the happiest I’ve ever been with her. She sat parked, really let down and showed a real sign of class. That’s her most impressive win since I’ve had her,” he said.

by Bruce Stewart, for Harnesslink