Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Maddison Brown made the most of an unexpected opportunity at Gloucester Park on Friday night by driving experienced mare Wall Street Girl to an easy win in the www.gloucesterpark.com.au Pace.
When Jocelyn Young became unwell, Brown was engaged to drive Wall Street Girl, who had impressed when Young drove her in the breeze to win a 2130m event from Benji and Loucid Dreams at Gloucester Park on Tuesday evening.
Wall Street Girl, trained by Debra Lewis, was a $4 third fancy from barrier five, and she settled down in the one-out, one-back position while the polemarker Get Ya Bets On ($3.60) was setting the pace from the $3.50 favourite Im Eugene in the breeze.
Im Eugene was overracing and contacting his own sulky, and with about 1150m to travel he shifted out and Dylan Egerton-Green eased him back to the rear and from then on didn’t drive him out.
This left Wall Street Girl racing without cover. But she was full of running when Brown sent her to the front 300m from home on her way to winning by a length and a half from $26 chance Soho Gigolo.
“I thought that Wall Street Girl could race in the breeze again like she did on Tuesday, but when Im Eugene got pulling in the breeze, I was happy to sit in the one-one position,” said Brown.
Brown has enjoyed a successful association with Wall Street Girl, a seasoned campaigner she had driven three times earlier in her career for a win,a second and a sixth placing.
Wall Street Girl has been a handy moneyspinner who has now earned $127,852 from 13 wins and 24 placings from 70 starts. She is by Alta Christiano and is out of the South Australian-bred Elsu mare Manhattan Dream, who raced 71 times for 17 wins,15 placings and $35,241.
Manhattan Dream’s dam Miss Holmes had four starts in WA in April-May 2004 when Gary Hall Snr prepared her for her victory in the WA Oaks. She was retired with a record of 49 starts for seven wins, eight placings and $78,789.