Four-year-old Tennerson, a bargain buy at the Australasian Premier Trotting Sale in 2019, is proving a handy meal ticket for Parwan professional trainer Philip Chircop.
The gelding extended his winning sequence to four when he overcame a 20 metre handicap to prevail in a three-way photo at the Ballarat midweek meeting.
“He didn’t do a great deal early,” Chircop said. “But he’s getting better as he get’s older.”
Tennerson is somewhat of a standing start specialist, having notched five of his six successes from behind the tapes.
“He just pings away from the strands,” Phil stated.
The Skyvalley gelding was selected as a yearling by Bacchus Marsh owner Steve Carter, who races him in partnership with Jason Fenech and Chircop.
“I trained Wingatui Dew for Steve before he was claimed. He wanted to race another horse and so he went to the trotting sale and bought Tennerson,” Phil stated.
“He was only small so he wasn’t too dear.”
“He’s been a lovely find for my stable. He’s as honest as a day’s long,” Chircop said.
Tennerson has finished in the money in 14 of his 26 starts, netting $37,310 in stakemoney.
The Victorian Country Cups circuit in 2023 is his long term goal.
Bred by Clyde Little, Tennerson is a real trotting blue blood. He is out of the capable racemare Poet Laureate (9 wins), a half-sister by Keystone Salute to Cups winning trotters in Poet’s Corner, Con’s Poem and Poetic Device.
Other APTS sale graduates to win this week have been Bromwich (Melton), Hattie (Albion Park), Make Mine Muscle (Globe Derby Park) and Caledonian Spirit, a winner on the same program as Tennerson won.