22 October 2020 | Duncan Dornauf for Tasracing
Many horses continued their winning runs registering back-to-back wins in Launceston on Sunday night including Blame It On Me with a dominant win in the Faithful Park Stud Three Year Old.
Driver Natalee Emery positioned the Big Jim filly outside the leader and proved too tough for her rivals scoring by 12 metres in 1m 58.0s, which was 0.7s outside Lanercost’ age record and only 0.3s outside Nostra Beach’s age/sex record.
Hobart staged a rare Tuesday night meeting where leading trainer Ben Yole prepared a treble on the eight-race card.
The Stars
Yatsenyuk Leis – the Shelley Barnes-trained pacer recorded his third win of the season in a rating 65 to 79 event on Sunday. The gelding settled one-out and two-back before leading up the three-wide line over the final lap to record a tough win in a 57.5s last half mile.
Conor Crook – could win on a broomstick in recent months notching up winner after winner and that included a treble in Launceston on Sunday night, with Crook training one of those winners, Loch Ness Franco.
Jocund – produced brilliant standing start manners to lead all the way to score in the Rare Earth Pace by 5.2 metres for trainer-driver Todd Rattray.
Geoff Smith – Believe In Forever recorded back-to-back wins and continued the winning run for the Northdown based trainer. The win was courtesy of a lovely drive by Rohan Hillier, he weaved his way through the field.
Michael Laugher – has enjoyed a good run in recent weeks and that continued in Hobart on Tuesday night with a training double.
Multiple Winners
Launceston – Sunday evening
Conor Crook – driving treble; Loch Ness Franco, Donny In Paris and Bridwood Bella.
Hobart – Tuesday evening
Ben Yole – training treble; Hear the Call, Kiavino Stride and Gauci,
Michael Laugher – training double; Emjays Black Chip and Karalta Courage,
Rohan Hillier – driving double; Emjays Black Chip and Karalta Courage.
Calculated Sectional Standouts
Quickest last halves (800m) from last week’s action.
Launceston – Sunday evening
Believe In Forever and Bridwood Bella 55.70s, Demand Respect 55.90s, Scotlynn Beach 56.36s and Live For Peace 56.43s.
Hobart – Tuesday evening
Hezatoff 57.05s, North Star Lad 57.15s, Victoria Pass 57.26s, Albayzin 57.38s and Wattabout Spangher 57.42s.
View all available Tasmanian Sectional Data by clicking here.
Tasracing Official Price
Launceston – Sunday evening
Hit’s: Blame It On Me $2.25 into $1.90, Loch Ness Franco $1.50 into $1.35, Believe In Forever $7.00 into $4.00, Donny In Paris $8.00 into $3.80, Jocund $5.00 into $3.90 and Bridwood Bella $1.35 into $1.22.
Missed: Lord Stark $3.30 into $3.00, Somedan $4.20 into $3.60, Kardesler $5.50 into $4.20, Baccarat $8.50 into $7.50 and The Thug $3.80 into $3.00.
Hobart – Tuesday evening
Hit’s: Emjays Black Chip $20 into $16, Resolute Ruler $7.50 into $5.50, Victoria Pass $4.80 into $3.80, Kiavino Stride $2.60 into $2.25, Big Bang Raj $5.00 into $4.40 and Karalta Courage $9.00 into $8.00.
Defied The Drift: Hear The Call $18 out to $26 and Gauci $12 out to $21.
Missed: Gentleman Red $5.50 into $4.20, Mach Charm $3.70 into $2.70, Black Ops $2.25 into $1.85, Coveffe Hustler $8.50 into $5.00, Black Eight $8.50 into $7.00, Guys Bettor Bet $61 into $26, War Chest $4.80 into $3.70, Semowillrev $3.50 into $2.80, Oneofthelads $3.60 into $2.70, Pardoe Plugga $14 into $7.50, Got The Goods $4.80 into $4.00 and Heidi Go Seek $7.00 into $3.50.
Trial File
Hobart – Monday evening
Three trials were staged on Monday where veteran pacer Upanatom recorded the quickest winning mile rate of the session in 2m 1.1s.
Trained by Tammy Langley, who is a recent addition to the training ranks, the 10-year-old gelded son of Christian Cullen was handled by Tammy’s son Dylan Ford.
From barrier five the pacer showed a little bit of early speed to settle behind the leader before working one off at the 500-metre mark to go on and win the trial by 1.5 metres over Resurgent Storm and Star Chamber who was doing his best work late.
Other winners included Miss Ruby Rose who took out the opening trial in 2m 9.6s for the mile trip and Alaphilppe who rated 2m 3.2s for 2090 metres.
You can view the trial replays by clicking here.
FORMPLUS Black Book
Scotlyn Beach
Trained at Sidmouth by Mark Jones, this six-year-old gelding has had two runs in Tasmania and has led up the three wide line over the final 1000 metres of the race on both occasions. At his most recent effort in Launceston on Sunday, the pacer just peaked on the run late to finish third behind Believe In Forever and Lord Stark after racing wide in a fast last half mile. With a cart into the race, or with better luck with the barrier draw this pacer should be registering his first Tasmanian win in the not too distant future.
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Week Ahead
A bumper 10-race card will be staged on Sunday night with two Group 2 features on the card.
The barrier draw has played well for the favoured runners in each event.
Rocknovertime has drawn barrier two in the Tasracing Dandy Patch Final, while his main danger Lancelot has drawn wider on the track in the 2090-metre event.
The Tasbred Fillies will do battle in the Tasracing Evicus Final where Melnrowley has drawn well once again in barrier three.
Sunday’s meeting will feature a hosted live stream on TasracingTV, with the first race scheduled at 17:34.
Sky Racing’s coverage will see race one on Sky 2 with the remainder of the card on Sky 1.
Some Tasmanian pacers doing battle over the next few days at metropolitan venues include;
Melton – Friday Night
Race 2 Horse 6 Blingittothemax.
Menangle – Saturday Night
Race 2 Horse 1 No Apachemee.
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