02 October 2017 | Tasracing
Tasmanian harness racing enthusiasts were treated to a number of spectacular displays of horsemanship on Sunday night at the Tasmanian Pacing Club meeting at Luxbet Park in Hobart.
Hall Of Fame reinsman Ricky Duggan showed his vast experience to pilot the Changeover -Glenferrie Miss four-year-old, odds-on favourite, Swap Me home in the first race on the card for the fourth win of its career.
Ricky’s expertise was again on show in race two as he guided the Adrian Duggan-trained eight-year-old gelding Grinable (pictured) to a runaway 11.8-metre victory, returning a mile-rate of 1:59:6, for its second win in the space of four runs.
Reigning 6ty° Youngbloods Challenge champion Jack Laugher completed a successful hit and run mission from Victoria with the Rohan Hillier-trained All My Savings and following up with the Ben Yole prepared Ultimate Courage.
All My Savings broke a frustrating run of three consecutive seconds to come from outside the second line over the sprint trip of 1609-metres for punters, as the $2.60 favourite, to score by 1.8-metres.
The form from race three stood up in the fourth as Ultimate Courage backed up from its victory last week over All My Savings to again land the money for trainer Ben Yole.
The Courage Under Fire-Quiet Talker six year-old-gelding has now won three of his last six starts.
Ben Yole completed his double with Stylish Trend scoring its first win of the season with Robert Walters in the cart.
The Bettors Delight-Trenzetter five-year-old gelding scored in the closest finish of the night over Pushkin by a half-head at odds of $6.50.
Justin Campbell and Todd Rattray were honoured to have joined forces to win the Vale Charlie Howlett Pace with Boltnmach.
The victory brought up a winning hat-trick for the Mach Three-Fake Madam nine-year-old gelding after two wins in August to finish the 2016-17 season.
It just wouldn’t be a Tasmanian pacing meeting if Im Barney Rubble didn’t salute the judge.
The 10-year-old Life Sign – Pebbles gelding, trained and driven by Rohan Hillier, scored his fifth win in a row and his sixth from his last seven outings.
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