Wyndham Workout Wrap

Yesterdays Wyndham harness racing workouts provided some valuable insight into the upcoming weeks both for the Southern region and further afield.

In the hands of Tyler Dewe the well bred unqualified Garonne (The Best Madrik) trotted nicely and opened up a big gap on his three rivals to win the Unqualified Trot over 2400 metres by eight lengths.

Trained by Kirstin Green, Garonne is a full brother to Madrik (4 wins) and a half to Smokin Bandar (13), Fiery Bandito (7) and Somethings Burning (6).

Spells To Love, (Love You) a recent new addition to Rebecca Heads stable, beat two quality trotters in Flying Without Wings and Hidden Talent in the 2400 metre trot. Spell To Love comes from Robert and Jenna Dunn’s stable where he won two races. He’s raced up against some nice trotters in the past and with a R45 rating should pick up a race pretty quickly for Heads.

Flying Without Wings finished a head back from Spells To Love with Hidden Talent a neck back in third.

Trainer Nathan Williamson was pleased with Hidden Talent’s improved showing.

“She trotted nice and seems like her old self today. She went to the line under her own steam and felt like she wanted to do it. She’ll have another run at the Workouts on Friday and then go to the Dark Horse,” he said.

Williamson was also happy with Flying Without Wings.

“We’re just working on his trotting gait. He only wears the aluminiums (shoes) in front and they may be a bit light for him. Everything else with him is really good. He’s looking stronger than ever before, his works as good as ever and I was pleased with his workout. The plan is to take him to Northern Southland on Thursday.”

Sly Bart (Captain Crunch) won the Unqualified Mobile Pace over 2400 metres. Trained by Alister Black and owned by Lindsay and Ian Thomson the two year old won his heat by a head, running the distance in under qualifying time. His second dam Coburg won ten races including the G1 New Zealand Standardbred Breeders Stakes.

Ultimate Weapon (Bettor’s Delight) looks a lot stronger this time in. He ran second on debut behind the talented Captain Meister but his form after that dropped away.

Trained by Nathan Williamson he’s a full brother to Ultimate Sniper (14) and Ultimate Machete (3). His winning margin in the Non-winners Mobile was two and a quarter lengths.

Talented pacer Captains Mistress (Captaintreacherous) beat her stablemate Miraculous by a head in the final heat. The 2400 metres was cut out in 3-03.1 with the last 800 metres run in 57.2.

Meanwhile Williamson reports that Dreams Are Free (Captaintreacherous) has pulled up well after running second to Advance Party at the Wyndham HRC meeting on Friday.

“He had a massive blow afterwards. I probably never got that real decent run into him at the workouts with the quality of horses he really needed. It might have been trainer error and I may not have had him sharp enough. In saying that I was very pleased with his run. He licked the bowl last night and was carrying on like a lunatic today.”

After getting on one rein at recent trials and workouts Williamson was pleased with the way the colt steered on Friday.

“He’d just been cross firing on himself. Franksie (farrier Brendon Franks) spent an hour on him changing round his angles. What I wanted to do was find out that it wasn’t a soreness issue.”

The Sophomore at Ashburton at Labour Weekend will be his first serious challenge.

For complete race results, click here

by Bruce Stewart, for Harnesslink