The amber liquid is again flowing in Victoria and there’ll be even more froth spilling over on Sunday should Sue Crick’s much-loved trotter land Sunday’s Volstead Redwood Classic.
Unbeaten in her two starts for trainer Maree Caldow and reinsman John Caldow, Tipsy Turvy will step from gate 11 in Sunday’s $50,000 Group 1 at Maryborough, part of the Redwood all-trotting day that’s drawn an outstanding 12-race card.
The moment of truth will lob at 3.39pm for owner-breeders Evan and Sue Crick, who joined Jason Bonnington and Blake Redden on SENTrack’s Talking Trots today to preview the two-year-old classic.
“I’d really love to win this race, but the fact that I’ve got a horse in it is enough for maybe me to get Tipsy Turvy,” Sue Crick said.
This moment has been some time in the making, with Tipsy Turvy a third generation of the family’s breeding lines, being out of six-time winner Titillate, who was in turn out of pacing bred mare Nothing To Hide.
“After 20 years of picking up other people’s horses and getting nowhere, my husband said let’s go to the sale and I’ll buy you a mare to breed from,” Crick said. “So we bought Titillate’s mother and I called her Nothing To Hide.”
And their warm sense of humor quickly emerged.
“I bred her to Die Laughing and – Nothing To Hide and Die Laughing – Titillate just popped into the mind and we thought it was a good name.”
And when the moment came to call time on her 41-start career, it was off to the breeding barn and more naming opportunities, with Titillate pared with Bacardi Lindy.
“Well, bit of Bacardi and off you go,” Crick said when explaining how they landed on Tipsy Turvy, whose name may well be on many lips at 3.39pm on Sunday when she steps out for the standing start Group 1.
“I went 20 years before I won a race. Titillate’s been good to me and this filly’s really a nice little filly,” Crick said. “She’s a strong filly, she hasn’t probably got a real burst, but she just keeps going. She just gives her heart out to you.
“John Caldow’s done a great job with her. He’s taken it slowly. He can put her just about anywhere he wants and she just goes along with it, which is really good.
“We trialled her this week and she got away (from the standing start) fine – once she gets away she’s fine. John’s put a lot of work into that to make sure and her two wins have both been stand starts.
“I think she’s as close as she can get at this stage, but then again they’re all two-year-old trotters.”
Rob Auber will head up full coverage on Sunday’s feature day at Maryborough with race caller Lachie McIntosh, with the extended coverage to be streamed live and free on Trots Vision at thetrots.com.au.
For those having a bet, please note the quaddie legs will be races seven to 10, the treble races eight to 10, the daily double races eight and 10, the early quaddie races three to six, and the Big 6 races five to 10.
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