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News.com.au
26-04-2025
- Sport
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Tony Gollan may rethink winter carnival plans for Tenzing after ‘career PB' win in Brisbane Mile
Brisbane's top trainer Tony Gollan has hailed Tenzing 's victory in the $300,000 Brisbane Mile on Saturday at Eagle Farm as a 'career PB' but he's unsure where the talented gelding's future lies this winter. 'I hadn't really planned past today. This is a career PB (personal best) for him,' Gollan said after Tenzing's courageous win over Miss Joelene ($4.60) and Lee Freedman's $101 shot Encoder. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 'Whether we go any further or give him a breather now and come back after the carnival … I just have to look at what his rating adjusts to after this and then we'll make plans.' Gollan, who also picked up victories with Hurts So Good and Rockribbed on Saturday, said Tenzing had come back a 'different' horse this preparation. 'A bunch of work has gone into him for various reasons and he's really found his groove again,' Gollan said. 'He's got that sharp turn of foot now. When he can get those low draws, I was desperate to get him down in the weights. Tenzing wins the Brisbane Mile! A great @Reganbayliss ride for @tonygollan. â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) April 26, 2025 'With the light weight he can sprint really quick. He's only got a sprint of about a furlong or maybe not quite even 300m but it's fast when he goes and that was the difference. 'He's a fit horse on the scene early in the carnival and he can handle the cut out of the ground. I'm sure there are others in this race who will go on to better races but for him, he deserves it. 'The ownership group stuck by me to run him in this race and everything worked out well, she's apples. 'I don't know how deep into the carnival he can go, he might not go any deeper than this.' Favourite Just Folk, trained by Victorian Gavin Bedggood, dropped back to finish a disappointing fifth in the Brisbane Mile given the gelding normally thrives on soft tracks. Gollan also collected a victory in the last race of the day when Emily Lang increased her lead in the Brisbane jockey's premiership race after steering Rockribbed ($4.40) to a dominant win over Hatchet ($6.50) and I Am Artie ($4). She is now on 52 wins – seven ahead of Angela Jones and Jimmy Orman, who is currently riding in Hong Kong.
News.com.au
25-04-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Victorian trainer Gavin Bedggood praying Brisbane's big wet continues for wet-tracker Just Folk
Victorian trainer Gavin Bedggood has been performing a rain dance this week as he prepares veteran gelding Just Folk for the $300,000 Brisbane Mile at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The wet weather continues to plague South East Queensland this week, not that Bedggood will mind at all, with a heavy track this weekend a distinct possibility. TAB was offering a 'crazy price' of $9 on Wednesday for topweight Just Folk to win the Brisbane Mile, behind Port Lockroy ($4.40) and local mare Miss Joelene ($4.60). But with the rain tumbling down in Brisbane, that price had plummeted to $5.50 for Just Folk on Friday morning. 'If that track is proper heavy, you wouldn't get many better wet-trackers in Australia than him,' Bedggood said about Just Folk. 'You go through his form card, on heavy ground it's seven starts for three wins and two placings and on soft ground he's had 17 starts for five wins and eight placings. 'Then you look at his good form and he's 23 starts for two wins and three placings. 'He's not the same horse on a good surface and at the level he's racing now, he needs things to suit and that's why he's made his way to Brisbane.' Just Folk finished a disappointing 17th in this month's $4m Doncaster Mile at Randwick, in a race won by Stefi Magnetica, but Cranbourne trainer Bedggood was willing to forgive that result. 'He was very good winning the Doncaster Prelude (at Rosehill over 1500m on April 1) when they went along at a good gallop and they got wet conditions (Soft 7 track),' he said. 'In the Doncaster it was a drying track and they went very slow. He was going low 11s the day he won (the Prelude) but they were running sub 12s in the Doncaster Mile. 'On drying ground in that class of race he needs to run up to his best but the race wasn't run to suit him whatsoever.' Bedggood said Just Folk would also contest the $500,000 Group 2 Hollindale Stakes (1800m) on the Gold Coast on May 10, which was a 'line-in-the-sand' run for whether he pushes on to the Group 1 $1m Doomben Cup (2000m) two weeks later or goes to the Group 3 Lord Mayor's Cup (1800m) on May 31 which he won last year at Eagle Farm. Ryan Maloney, who triumphed in the 2024 Brisbane Mile on Mighty Ulysses for Annabel Neasham, will ride Port Lockroy, who finished ninth in the Doncaster Mile. Neasham trains four-year-old stallion Port Lockroy in partnership with her now husband Rob Archibald, with the power couple tying the knot on Thursday. Cejay Graham will be hoping to make it back-to-back victories on Miss Joelene, who won impressively on a soft track at Doomben over 1350m on April 16. 'It's not ideal but not much you can do about it when they keep calling off races (due to the rain),' trainer Kelly Schweida said about the quick turnaround for his mare. 'She needs to keep improving. You'd seem to think a Caloundra Cup (over 2400m on July 5) would suit her but I don't know. 'It's so hard because every time you pick up a paper and listen to the radio, there's another (star southern) horse coming through to all the big races. 'I'll take it step by step but she can run the trip and she can handle soft ground. That helps but her (winter carnival) program will depend on what horses are coming up.'
