Bangholme trots lifer Georgina Coram continues to taste that winning feeling through her six-year-old bay mare, whose winning streak has refuelled expectations of a six-figure career.
Fiftyshadesofbrown added a victory at Cranbourne on Tuesday to her success at Warragul on April 18, rewarding Cranbourne South trainer-driver Allan Lousada and owner-breeder Coram.
“I’m having a ball with her,” Coram said. “You don’t give up on the mares, they keep coming around.”
Aged 56, Coram has had a life spent in the sport. She is the granddaughter of Ben Coram – trainer of 1937 Inter Dominion winner Dans Son – and daughter of trainers Rosemary and Lloyd Coram, with the latter sadly passing when Georgina was just 15.
“I probably would have gone on to be a driver myself, but couldn’t because of the circumstances,” she said. “But I have continued breeding and have always had horses involved.”
Coram has a 900m track at Bangholme and said she had “bred and raised plenty of babies”, and added “I don’t know anything else”.
“I get up at 5.30, seven days a week and work them before going to work. It’s just what I do.”
At present the Cranbourne Harness Racing Club life member is training The Sharp Shooter, she has Fiftyshadesofbrown with Lousada and a yearling with Euroa trainer Cameron Maggs, while Wills Son is among those she has leased and who is racing with Paul Burt at Albury.
It is Fiftyshadeofbrown who is presently filling her with most joy, having saluted twice in Victoria’s east in the past month, enjoying the results Coram has long thought within her reach.
“My heart was set on racing her in the Group 1 races early and she run third in the Vicbred final and I was over the moon,” she said. “But it really did flatten her for a long time. It has taken her a long while to get back in.”
The six-year-old trotter has amassed 86 starts that have yielded 37 placings, including wins number nine and 10 this April.
“You always need a bit of luck in racing. We are just past $70,000 in stakes and believe we can get to the $100,000 mark.”
Coram said there was plenty of fight in mare yet, expecting at least a further 12 months of racing before tipping Fiftyshadesofbrown towards a career in montes.
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