Five-year-old Glengarriff, a product of the Australasian Premier Trotting Sale in 2018, is proving a fine meal ticket for a long-time supporter of the sale, Wedderburn hotelier Gavan Holt.
Bought for $5,500, the gelding lifted his stake tally to more than $40,000 when he came from near last to notch his fifth success at the Maryborough midweek meeting.
“Gavan has bought three or four horses at the sale over the years, but this is the first one to make it,” trainer Joanne Franklin said.
“He’s done a good job. He’s very honest and he’s foolproof. We’re hoping he can keep going through the classes.”
Franklin has eight horses in work – all trotters – at Moonlight Flats, on the outskirts of Maryborough.
The best horse she has trained is the trotting mare Royal Dream, who won seven races including the Breeders Crown Consolation as a three-year-old, while the standout she’s been associated with was the mighty mare La Coocaracha.
“When I was working for Les Chapman I drove La Coocaracha in most of her trackwork,” she said.
One of three winners sired by the US import Imperial Count at Maryborough, Glengarriff was bred by well known Kyabram trotting scribe Gus Underwood.
He is out of the Muscles Yankee mare Catchya Muscle, the dam also of a capable trotter in Hard Done By, who won 19 races and $91,418.
Other APTS sale graduates to win this week have been the Melton winners Zarem and Majestical Belle and the Globe Derby Park victor Make Mine Muscle.