Caption: South Australian trainer Lauren Harris and nephew Leo Sutherland with Finniss Redeem, one of four winners for the kennel at a recent Angle Park meeting (Photo: KURT DONSBERG)
Chase’s MIKE HILL highlights trainers who have celebrated multiple winners at meetings across the nation in the past week
IT was the case of North versus South as trainers continued to rug up multiple winners across the country.
Steele Bolton and Harrison Brown traded ‘blows’ as they dominated a mid-week meeting at the Top End’s Winnellie Park, while the Rasmussens – Tony and Lisa – and Lauren Harris produced four winners apiece at consecutive meetings at Adelaide’s Angle Park.
Only one place separates Bolton and Tony Rasmussen on the nation-wide trainers’ premiership points table.
Currently Bolton is holding down fourth spot with 190 winners for the year and a points tally of 3050, while Rasmussen has 171 winners and 2680 points.
And they both head their respective club premierships.
Bolton, who has a stranglehold on the Darwin title, and Brown shared the eight-race program with four winners each and a host of placings.
Brown kicked off the meeting winning with Champaign Dame ($2.40 fav) as well as collecting the quinella.
However, Bolton quickly matched him in the following race, leading in Pretty Witch, also a $2.40 winner, as well as the second placegetter.
Bolton dominated the next, winning with $2.60 fancy Ruby’s Gem as well as providing the trifecta, before Brown hit back in successive races with $8.30 chance Gudgeon Pin and Whiskey Blue ($3.90).
Bolton then smashed race six with the short-priced $1.50 favourite Miss Wiseman, Brown immediately responded winning with Raw Eleven ($2 fav), before Bolton ended the night with another trifecta headed by Thunder Kick ($7.40).
In Adelaide, Tony Rasmussen rugged up a winning treble with Bernardo Bowl ($4), Undoing ($3.90) and Express Speed ($4.20), while Lisa produced the smart unbeaten juvenile Victa Damian ($2 fav) for a BON run of 30.27s over the 530m trip.
Then the following day at Angle Park, Lauren Harris was the punters pal when she presented four winners – all favourites – Finniss Redeem ($1.70), San Lorenzo ($1.70), Orejtas ($2) and Craggy Island ($1.75).
Harris, who is running fourth on the Angle Park trainers’ table with 38 victories for the year -at a 25 per cent winning strike rate – is no stranger to leading in multiple winners at SA tracks.
Based at Finniss, south-east of Adelaide, she posted her first metropolitan treble back in November 2016 and has been a top 10 trainer for the past six years.
A group of trainers rugged up winning trebles during the week – Anthony Lord (at Goulburn), Scott Atkinson (Townsville), Brad Belford (Townsville), Robert Ryan (Tamworth), Chris Brydon (Capalaba), Matt Payne (Murray Bridge), Adam Poulter (Darwin) and Jason Schmidt (Ipswich).
