Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Veteran pacer Medieval Man is flourishing in the twilight of his career, and he completed a hat-trick of wins when Maddison Brown drove him to a tough victory in the $19,000 Happy 98TH birthday Hubert Tucker Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
He was generally overlooked by punters and started at the gift odds of $21.70, with the polemarker Lets Get Rockin ($2.10 favourite) and last-start winner Lamandier ($2.75) dominating betting.
Lamandier began from barrier five and challenged hard for the early lead but was unable to cross Lets Get Rockin, with Medieval Man settling down in sixth position in the one-wide line before Brown sent him forward in the first circuit to race without cover.
Medieval Man finished determinedly to get to the front at the 50m mark before winning by a metre from the pacemaker. The final three quarters were run in 29.5sec., 29.2sec. and 29.7sec. and the winner rated 1.57.5. This gave Brown the first leg of a double, with her second winner coming when Loucid Dreams won later in the evening.
“Medieval Man doesn’t get around the corners the best, so I thought he would be better off outside the leader, rather than making a three-wide run later in the race,” said Brown.
Medieval Man is prepared by Kiara Davies, who races the seven-year-old in partnership with her sister Patrice and their father Graeme, who bred the pacer, a son of Group 1 star Renaissance Man, and out of So Crimsonandclova, who raced 34 times for six wins, seven seconds, one third placing and $32,253 in stakes from 34 starts.
Medieval Man has been an excellent moneyspinner, with his 138 starts producing 22 wins and 22 placings for earnings of $204,554. Kiara Davies was not on course on Friday night when she was attending an end-of-the-season wind-up function for her netball side Mundijong.
Her partner Michael Young was in charge of Medieval Man on Friday night when he said: “He is not an overly talented horse, so to win $200,000 is a good effort.”
Veteran pacer Medieval Man is flourishing in the twilight of his career, and he completed a hat-trick of wins when Maddison Brown drove him to a tough victory in the $19,000 Happy 98TH birthday Hubert Tucker Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
He was generally overlooked by punters and started at the gift odds of $21.70, with the polemarker Lets Get Rockin ($2.10 favourite) and last-start winner Lamandier ($2.75) dominating betting.
Lamandier began from barrier five and challenged hard for the early lead but was unable to cross Lets Get Rockin, with Medieval Man settling down in sixth position in the one-wide line before Brown sent him forward in the first circuit to race without cover.
Medieval Man finished determinedly to get to the front at the 50m mark before winning by a metre from the pacemaker. The final three quarters were run in 29.5sec., 29.2sec. and 29.7sec. and the winner rated 1.57.5. This gave Brown the first leg of a double, with her second winner coming when Loucid Dreams won later in the evening.
“Medieval Man doesn’t get around the corners the best, so I thought he would be better off outside the leader, rather than making a three-wide run later in the race,” said Brown.
Medieval Man is prepared by Kiara Davies, who races the seven-year-old in partnership with her sister Patrice and their father Graeme, who bred the pacer, a son of Group 1 star Renaissance Man, and out of So Crimsonandclova, who raced 34 times for six wins, seven seconds, one third placing and $32,253 in stakes from 34 starts.
Medieval Man has been an excellent moneyspinner, with his 138 starts producing 22 wins and 22 placings for earnings of $204,554. Kiara Davies was not on course on Friday night when she was attending an end-of-the-season wind-up function for her netball side Mundijong.
Her partner Michael Young was in charge of Medieval Man on Friday night when he said: “He is not an overly talented horse, so to win $200,000 is a good effort.”