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News.com.au
23-05-2025
- Sport
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Patrick and Michelle Payne-trained The Open primed to strike at Sandown
Consistent performer The Open has a perfect third-up record to uphold on Saturday at Sandown in the 1400m Benchmark 100. The Patrick and Michelle Payne -trained five-year-old, a seven-time winner from 16 starts, placed fourth the past two outings at Cranbourne and Caulfield respectively. The Open finished 2¼ lengths behind War Machine last start, a $3.60 favourite on Saturday in the Group 1 Stadbroke Handicap-qualifying Group 3 BRC Sprint at Doomben. 'He's a lovely horse,' Michelle Payne said of The Open. 'We'd love to have a stable of horses that honest, he's not a world beater but he's as consistent as you could hope for and lovely to work with. 'Hopefully gets his luck in running and he should put his best foot forward all going well.' Payne's nephew, apprentice jockey Tom Prebble has the chance to bank a third win on The Open. • Prebble has ridden The Open four times previously for two wins and a second. The 22-year-old rode his first stakes winner last Saturday at Flemington. 'Absolutely thrilled for him,' Payne said. 'He's very hardworking, down to earth, a lovely kid and improving all the time. 'He's resilient. He's determined. Hopefully he can keep taking the next step, progress through his apprenticeship and into his senior career.' Prebble has ridden 110 winners to date including a combined 21 for the Payne siblings, individually and in partnership. 'Anytime you win with family it makes it even more special,' Payne said. • Payne praised Prebble's dedication to the craft and determination. Despite a rich racing pedigree Prebble, son of champion jockey Brett Prebble and Maree Payne, only started riding horses seriously about five years' ago. 'He wanted to do it, I think that's half the battle when you've got someone very determined,' Payne said. 'Even though he didn't have the upbringing we had (riding from an early age) and the interest, he's a good little athlete, and he's from two of the most competitive people in the world, Maree and Brett. 'If he wasn't determined it was definitely going to be a shock, thrown to his parents that's for sure.'
News.com.au
17-05-2025
- Sport
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Clayton Douglas praises Tom Prebble ride on $71 outsider Title Fighter in Straight Six at Flemington
Punters wouldn't have enjoyed the race but apprentice Tom Prebble won't forget Saturday's Listed Straight Six (1200m) at Flemington. Prebble continued a terrific day for bookmakers when he posted his first stakes win aboard the $71 chance Title Fighter in the $175,000 feature. Most punters expected the Grahame Begg-trained King Zephyr to stretch his winning streak to five but their hopes were gone at the halfway point as the $1.80 favourite struggled in the deteriorating ground. Trainer Clayton Douglas said Prebble rightly went early to challenge the leaders on Title Fighter before the sprinter held on to beat fellow roughie Deekay ($26) and former Singapore star Lim's Kosciuszko ($12). The young rider was thrilled to notch his first stakes win, especially as his father, former champion international jockey Brett Prebble, was on course. The apprentice, who was unable to use his claim in the Straight Six, winning his maiden stakes contest was only part of his bigger plans. Good work if you found Title Fighter at $69! 🫨 Title Fighter wins the Straight Six at Flemington in the pouring rain! @c_douglasracing @thomas_prebble â€' 7HorseRacing ðŸ�Ž (@7horseracing) May 17, 2025 'I just see every race as the next and I want to win all of them,' Prebble said. 'When I got the opportunity to ride in a Listed race, I just took the opportunity. It unfolded awesomely. 'When I was travelling on the back of (Lim's) Kosciuszko, I knew being a class horse, when I was going better than him, I had to push the button.' Douglas, who himself rode successfully on the flat and over jumps before taking to training, said Prebble rode Title Fighter perfectly. 'I couldn't have asked for a better ride,' Douglas said. 'He rode him terrific. 'He's got a big future, this kid.' Douglas said Title Fighter went around over the odds considering the son of Lean Mean Machine had little luck in the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool at his previous outing. 'He's a quirky horse,' Douglas said. 'You just need to get the first furlong right, then he's right. 'We drew the outside gate today so it worked out perfectly.' Title Fighter's shock win went a little way to easing the disappointment of stable star Giga Kick's third-placed run in last Saturday's Group 1 Goodwood in Adelaide.
