March 5, 2016
John and Gaye Harvey, the principals of Croyden Park Stud at Cottonvale on the Granite Belt, are inadvertent Burnett tourism promoters.
The couple’s livery has been carried by Eidsvold and the full brothers Monto and Mount Perry, a sound winner of the HSF Fitness (BM 60,1400m) at Beaudesert last weekend.
All three are by the Rustic Amber entire Sir Topaz and were bred by Charlie Hughes, a resident of Ceratodus in the north Burnett.
The naming game actually started with a colt called Ceratodus, a 2006 born member of Sir Topaz’s first crop.
The Burnett place-name horses have successfully appeared in scattered parts.
Monto has won at Bell, Tara, Stanthorpe and Toowoomba while Eidsvold took out a Gold Coast Maiden.
The Mark Palmer-trained Mount Perry has saluted twice at his home patch at Beaudesert.
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Almost A Dynamic Disaster
The Stephen Jones stable landed the quinella and the bonuses in the QTIS Maiden for two-year-olds at Dalby with the outsiders Red Wayne and Sportstar Samuel last Saturday.
The side’s representatives at Beaudesert in the Straight Up Fencing Maiden Plate for the males were the Star Witness three-year-old Dynamic Star (Ben Cornell) and the Court Command juvenile Meal Ticket (Rick Johnston -Bell).
The former recorded the easiest of victories while the latter flashed home to complete the quinella.
However, pre-race drama is revealed in the stewards’s report.
“On presentation to the saddling enclosure, a steward’s check revealed that the incorrect saddles and saddle cloth numbers had been placed on stable-mates Dynamic Star and Meal Ticket,” the stewards report noted.
“At a subsequent inquiry, trainer S. Jones pleaded guilty to negligence under AR175(k) in that he placed the incorrect saddles and saddle cloth numbers on his respective runners and was fined $500.
“Stewards ordered both riders to re-weigh which resulted in a delay to this event.”
The vigilance of officials certainly averted a potential fiasco.
Just for the record, there was a three and a half kilo difference between the weights to be carried.
In all probability, the jockeys involved would y have noticed that they were hoisted on to a seat that they did not own.
Nevertheless, the business-like work of the officials meant that it did not come down to that kind of risky prospect.
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Bits And Bridles
- Shouts All Round, a recent competitor at Nanango, returned to the winner’s list at Beaudesert on Saturday. The lightly raced mare by Kenfair from Shout With Pride should be of interest to those who love greys. Four of the stallions that extend across the the top of the five-year-old’s pedigree, namely Kenfair, Kenmare, Kalamoun and Grey Sovereign, were greys. Shout With Pride, Shout About, Raffelate and Correlate, the four consecutive matrons at the bottom of the lineage, were also of that colouring.
- Hannah Phillips is making up for lost time with Saturday’s bookings for Azusa (trained by Jackie Crompton), Alemana (for her father Barry) and Bush Beat (Andrew Donnelly) at Chinchilla. She then heads to Toowoomba to handle Smooth Talker (Donald Baker), Caracas (Kevin Kemp) and Kenkerjoca (John Byrne).
- Hannah English continues to display superb, sustained consistency. At Dalby last Saturday she booted home Dr Deejay for Kevin Kemp and collected placings on City Market, Squeemi, Awesome Sight and Peter Blackwell’s game player Count Romano.
- The Nanango apprentice is concentrating on Toowoomba this Saturday. She reunites with Count Romano, steps out on the Patrick Sexton quartet of Ibelieveicanfly, Lontana, Typhoon Red and Nothin’ Zappenin’ and will be aboard Clangoranda (Greg Cornish) and Jill’s Shadow for her master Glenn Richardson.
- Hivesville conditioner Lindsay Anderson is aiming at a Gympie purse this weekend with Glenthorn Avenue. Richardson is set to saddle up Lucks In and Canid at Chinchilla. Barry Phillips has also accepted there with Baremin.
- It may be advisable that meetings at Gympie and Gladstone are staged on different dates. Although the geographic distance between the pair of sand tracks is considerable, connections of runners based in the middle at Bundaberg have to chose between the venues.
- Reminder: the Esk Jockey Club will be holding its first meeting for 2016 on Saturday, March 12.
- Nanango will be the centre of interest and attention on Easter Saturday, March 26. The Moffatdale Ridge Wines Fashion theme is an imaginative one: Royalty – Vintage, Lace and Pearls.
