Trainer’s early season patience rewarded
Trainer Guy Lowry's patience with his horses during the wet spring and early summer is starting to pay off. His stable produced four individual winners in the past fortnight. Can I Get An Amen started the ball rolling when winning a Rating 87 race over 1200m at Otaki on December 26. Pipers Fling, Love Letter, Zambezi Khan and Speakeasy followed. Zam bezi khan won a 1000m two-year-old race at Tauherenikau last Monday. Mark Evans bought the daughter of Mongolian Khan for $5000 when she was offered as a yearling on Gavelhouse in August 2021.
It was the first quinella for Waipukurau's Simon Wilson. He has a 50% share in both horses. Scutar won the race. Vidiano finished second. He is unsure where Scuttar will line up next. There might be another quinea at the end of the month. The Pierro mare has two seconds from four starts for Wilson so far. She has only been in his care since the start of this season.
Free Bee won at double-figure odds at the Hawke's Bay meeting on December 31. It was her second win in four days. Tayla Mitchell has been aboard the mare in her last two wins and produced almost identical rides on both occasions. Free Bee is owned by well-known racing identity Lucy Scoular. She races the horse in partnership with her son Andy, her daughter Sally Toothill and the estate of her late husband John.
Aussie win for HB owner Chris Russell. Makbeel scored a 5-1/4 length win in a maiden race over 1600m at Stoney Creek, Victoria. He is out of the Zabeel mare Donna Beel, who won one race from six starts.
Best Seller is training for the $30,000 three-year-old race at Trentham on December 31. She is trained by John Bary and will be ridden by Sam Spratt. She hasn't raced since finishing second behind Legarto in the Group 1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton on November 14.
