First win result of couple’s teamwork

Riverton trainer Ashley Frye with her first winner, Boyslightup, at Gore yesterday. Photo: Wild...
Riverton trainer Ashley Frye with her first winner, Boyslightup, at Gore yesterday. Photo: Wild Range Photography
Rider Brett Murray gave his fiancee Ashley Frye an early wedding present at Gore yesterday.

Frye scored her first win as a trainer when Murray rode Boyslightup to win over 1200m.

"I was quite confident [about Boyslightup’s chances] after the weather forecast had the rain coming because she went a really nice race when she was only beaten by a nose at Oamaru on a heavy track," Frye said.

Finding more heavy tracks for Boyslightup might be a tricky task  but Frye is confident the Duporth-Twice Shy galloper can measure up on firmer surfaces.

The training victory added to the 75 wins, including the Canterbury Belle Stakes and Metropolitan Trophy, the former accomplished jockey achieved in two seasons of race-riding.

Frye’s career as a jockey was ended by a fall at Ashburton in 2014 in which she sustained severe head injuries.

The horsewoman has four horses in work and also works alongside Murray in trainer Kelvin Tyler’s stable.

Boyslightup’s victory was a family affair. Murray’s mother, Marie Hodgson, races the horse with Frye.

Riverton trainers dominated the seven-race card at Gore.

Murray rode Timy Tyler for Tyler, breaking a 50-race winless streak with victory over 1200m.

Timy Tyler’s last victory came in October, 2015 in the Coupland’s Bakeries’ Mile Trial at Riccarton. The 8yr-old had placed 15 times during his winless streak.

Apprentice Amless Bohorun scored the first winning double of his New Zealand riding career with Moss Jazz and Wild Jack.

They took the 27-year-old’s career tally to 12 wins.

Both horses are trained by his employer, Riverton trainer Stephen Blair-Edie.

Bohorun is unbeaten on Moss Jazz, who won over 1200m.

Moss Jazz produced a carbon copy of the front-running run that resulted in her win at Wingatui earlier this month in her first start for Blair-Edie.

Bohorun sat Wild Jack outside the leader, The Bumper, before he went on to win over 1355m. 

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