First galloping winner

Tony Barron
Tony Barron
Tony Barron trained his first thoroughbred winner yesterday, capping a big week after wins with a trotter and pacer on Tuesday.

Barron won a 2000m maiden race yesterday at Gore with Gothesting, a mare he races on lease from breeders Dean McKenzie, of Christchurch and Allan Sharrock, of New Plymouth.

Barron won with the trotter Lively Step and pacer Sand Fly at Invercargill on Tuesday.

Barron (44), who has a stable at Makarewa, has been training standardbreds since 1989.

He prepared 38 winners in a six-season partnership with his father, Ron.

He has had 222 wins on his own account.

He has tried several thoroughbreds in recent years and had seven placings from 11 starts with the Innate at two and three. She ran second to Senorita Dane in the 2004 Canterbury Belle Stakes for 3yr-old fillies before she went amiss in a knee.

Gothesting is a 4yr-old mare by Minardi from Redeno and thus a half-sister to Go Thenaki, the winner of 12 races including the 2004 Winter Cup at Riccarton for McKenzie and Sharrock (the trainer).

Redeno, a Racing Is Fun mare, has also left winners Go Thestags, Bee Woods and Micktheshu.

Barron will now turn his attention to the Tuapeka Trotting Club meeting at Forbury Park tomorrow. He has Hi Gun and Crafty engaged.

Hi Gun (race 8) ran sixth fresh up at Invercargill on October 3. "He was a bit unlucky," Barron said.

Crafty (race 1) is having her first start. The 4yr-old Village Jasper mare, who qualified 12 months ago, won a trial at Invercargill on September 24.

• Ellis Winsloe, the Knapdale trainer, added to a family record when Gladiator's Choice led for most of the way to win the Wyndham Cup yesterday.

His late father, Ted, won the race eight times as a trainer when based at Gore. Ellis rode Blue Day to win for his father in 1977.

Ted also had wins in the race with Amalgic (1980), Soberano (1974), Jane Marie (1973), Somelight (1970), Tundra (1966), Golden Glen (1965) and Liban (1958).

• Maysoon became the seventh winner left by her dam Abundant when successful in a maiden trot at the NZ Metropolitan meeting at Addington last bight.

Maysoon (by Sundon) is a sister to Genius and Noam.

Genius has won 17 races. He had won six on end before finishing second at Alexandra Park last night.

Noam is a recent winner in California as an 11yr-old.

Noam won four races in New Zealand when trained by Tim Butt and Murray Butt and further in Australia.

Other winners out of Abundant are Bizness, Whizdom, Sundon's Prize, and Stimulus.

 

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