By Tayler Strong
The Williamson stable will pin their hopes in Madison Jane at Roxburgh today after scratching her half sister Alderbeck.
The stable won both trotting races at Omakau on Monday with Brads Kenny and Monty Python and have won six races since December 17.
Alderbeck was among those winners when successful at Gore on December 27. The Pegasus Spur – J D Pat mare has won six of his 13 starts since she began racing at Roxburgh 12 months ago.
Her Gore win was his second in four starts this season, “She is just not 100 per cent with some filling in a leg,’’ said Brad Williamson, who was to have driven her. He has the drive on Madison Jane, who along with Pyramid Mustang will represent the stable in race 2.
Madison Jane has not raced since July when she won at Forbury Park, a race that was penalty free as she was a 2yr-old. She won a trial at Cromwell last Saturday.
Pyramid Monarch is also starting afresh after four placings in nine starts last season.
A 40m handicap may not be beyond Mossdale Conner in the Roxburgh Cup. The winner of 12 races including a Taylor Mile and the 2016 Northern Southland Cup, Mossdale Conner was running on late for fourth in the Central Otago Cup free-for-all at Omakau won by Classie Brigade in track record time on Monday. Mossdale Conner was held up in the closing stages.
It Ain’t The Money, the winner of three of his five starts, has been scratched from race 10 after a hind leg injury.
‘’It is nothing serious but he has hurt a back leg in the paddock. He was feeling it when I went to hopple him yesterday,’’ said Allan McVicar, his Chatton owner-trainer. “He was alright jogging on the grass but not so good on the all-weather. It will take a while to heal.”
The Lis Mara 4yr-old began racing in October and he has since won at Ascot Park (twice) and Gore on Boxing Day.
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