Bannockburn horseman Geoff Webster has pretty much done it all in the standardbred world as a successful owner, trainer and driver. He has trained the winners of 1,750 races including 13 Group 1’s and has driven over 2,150 winners in a long and storied career.
Webster can now add Group 1 winning breeder to his impressive resume.
Jacwill Kid, a two-year-old bred and raced by Geoff and his wife Helen and trained by Geoff, led from pillar to post to capture the Group 1 $150,000 Gold Crown Final at Bathurst last Saturday night.
The Huntsville gelding won the fastest of the five heats contested eight days earlier.
Jacwill Kid, who is named after Geoff’s two grandchildren Jack and Willow, is out of the successful racemare Ruby Delight.
“Helen bought Ruby Delight off the internet for $7,000 as a four-year-old. She had a bowed tendon before I got her,” Geoff said.
“We bought her with the purpose of breeding with her. She’s by Bettor’s Delight from a good maternal family.
“We won a couple of races with her. I only raced her until the breeding season.”
Ruby Delight’s first foal is the smart I Sea Red (by Downbytheseaside), a Melton two-year-old winner and Sapling Stakes placegetter last season.
Jacwill Kid is her second issue.
“I’ve also got a Stay Hungry yearling filly out of her that’s in work at the moment,” Geoff said. “She goes around pretty good too. I’m sure she’ll make it as well.
“She has a Downbytheseaside filly foal at foot and is in foal to Captain Crunch.”
Geoff and Helen currently own three broodmares in Ruby Delight and the siblings Doug’s Courage and Doug’s Cino.
A South Australian Oaks winner, Doug’s Courage was originally bred from by Webster’s late brother Doug and has left four winners from four foals including the Vicbred champion Doug’s Babe, who is still competing successfully in America, and the Listed winners Doug’s Platter and Doug’s Flame.
- Notanotha Naughty, bred and owned by Dr Hugh and Lorraine Cathels, gave Victoria its second feature success on the final night of the Bathurst Gold Crown carnival winning the Listed $60,000 Yabby Dam Farms Gold Coronet for three-year-old trotters
- Zippin Past, who won the Vicbred Voucher two-year-old trot on debut at Maryborough, was bred by Cranbourne president David Scott and is raced by members of the Gippsland club
- Inexorable, a winner at the Cranbourne meeting on Sunday, is out of the Group 2 winning Art Major mare Kira Jo and was bred and is raced by successful reinswoman Viv Tomren
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