Just a quick update on Tarpins. He ran a solid fifth last start at Kyneton, led around the straight and ran on well. He was coming third 50 metres from the line, but the leaders cut him off and Rawiller had to stop riding. He finished only 1.7 lengths behind the leader. Trainer and jockey were both rapt with the run.
He’s racing again at Cranbourne on Sunday in a 2025 metre race. The stable expect him to give a strong showing, now he’s had two solid runs under his belt and is back to his favoured distance.
1.20 pm – Race 3 Horse 3 – Jockey is Brad Rawiller again and he’s out of barrier 5.
Tarpins started off a fresh campaign with a run over 1400 metres at Bendigo yesterday.
Hopes weren’t too high – he’s being trained for 2000+ metres later in the spring, and it was a pretty strong Class 2 field.
He came in second last (10th of 11) but was only around 6 lengths from the winner and hit the line fairly strongly, which was what we had hoped.
We were fortunate enough to have gun jockey Brad Rawiller on board, fresh from his big win on Weekend Hussler on Saturday. I was very impressed with Brad – he conducted himself with the uiltimate professionalism, doing the meet and greet before the race then providing a detailed debrief after the race.
Next stop for Tarpins will probably be a 1700 metre race at Warrnambool on 23 September. Stay tuned.
I was fortunate enough to receive a comment on my blog the other day from Kerry Nott, the breeder of Tarpins.
Anyway, it turns out Tarpins’ dam sire (that’s his mother’s father for all you non-horsey folk) was none other than Sea Hero, who won the 1993 Kentucky Derby, as well as a couple of other major Group 1 races in the states.
I’ve included the link below. When I played it for Wakes, she was sooooo excited – I think she forgot it was a replay from 15 years ago!
Unfortunately Tarpins was scratched yesterday morning and didn’t get to run at Moonee Valley last night.
Wakes and I were pretty disappointed: not only were we looking forward to seeing him run again, but were very excited about the chance to meet with Damien Oliver prior to the race. I had planned to take some ‘Ollie and us’ and ‘Ollie and Tarpins’ shots and get Damien to sign them for our Tarpins Wall of Glory – but it wasn’t to be.
Ollie hid his disappointment well by picking up another (last-minute) ride in our race – the other jockey unfortunately fell in the race before ours – and booting home the winner. The race was run perfectly to suit Tarpins’ preferred racing pattern, almost identical to how his two victories were run, so we were even more disappointed not to have him out there.
For those of you who don’t know, Wakes & I are off to Hobart tomorrow to watch Tarpins run in the Tasmanian Derby on Saturday. It’s been a very exciting few weeks for us since his last win at Geelong. Hopefully he’ll run up to his ability and be in there with a chance.
Hobart (Elwick) Race 8 Number 6 at 4.06pm.
Watch out for some serious party antics if he does happen to win.
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