08 June 2022 | Ashleigh Paikos
With just four starts in the state, Patched has added the STAWA TABtouch Trotters Cup to his resume on Monday with an impressive win in the feature for David Young and Aiden De Campo.
The five-year-old made his way to WA recently from the Victorian stables of Chris and Alison Alford and has now made it three wins and a second from just four starts, proving to be quite the asset to Young’s small stable in Pinjarra. After agreeing that the horse would be better suited to WA racing at this stage of his career, Patched made the journey across the Nullabor, with Monday’s win cementing that he appears to have a big future here.
“Unsure of his next start, but we’ll try pick off some more races and I might give him a break and set him for the Trotters Cup, but it’s a wait and see with him.”
“I was lucky enough that Alison recommended to her mum (Vicki Woodhouse) that she should send Patch over here as he wasn’t having much luck and due to our handicapping here, he goes into our system well and the rest is history,” Young said.
Idolising Chris Alford from a young age, David was able to meet him through his brothers Kim and Shane when he was 12 years old, but it wasn’t until 2015 when Alford was over for the Inter Dominion series in Perth that Young really forged his friendship. He gave Alford the drive on his stable favourite, Major Catastrophe through the Binshaw series at Gloucester Park, where he was victorious in the Group 2 Binshaw Final, on Inter Dominion Grand Final night.
When Young discovered that his pacing bred filly ‘Thats Not My Gait’ was in fact a trotter, he started conversing with Alison and Chris Alford, and the decision was made to send her East where they better cater for juvenile trotters. The Double Westbred four-year-old has now had 22 starts for three wins and five placings and is racing this Thursday at Kilmore in race 7, starting from barrier 10 at 6pm WST.
Young expects Thats Not My Gait will likely come home to WA at the end of the year, depending on how she is performing.
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