First Treble for Craig Hynam
Make It Quick taking out the feature. Photo Credit: Carol Lewsley @ Craicpot Photography.
Getting a winner is a thrill for most trainers but managing to get three winners on the same day is no mean feat and Byford based trainer Craig Hynam found himself walking away with a training treble on Sunday at Collie.
With just the eight horses in work, Hynam set off for the Collie meeting with five horses in tow and was quietly confident that he had a chance for a treble on the day with his runners. Since making his training debut in the 2009/2010 season, Hynam has trained 38 winners, but Sunday’s effort was his first double/treble, with the 37-year-old having his most successful year this season with 13 winners and 28 placings so far.
“Yeah, it was my biggest thrill so far. Before this it was winning my first race in town with A Boy Named Rosie, but this is right up there with that,”
“I was over the mood too for one of the wins to be Shannon and Callan’s parents’ race, they are good friends of mine.”
The first of Hynam’s treble came up in race two, with the $1.80 favourite Patrikiar leading all the way from barrier two. The three-year-old made it two in a row at Collie and her fourth win for Hynam’s stable since joining his team in May.
Make It Quick took out the Joe & Margaret Suvaljko Memorial feature for Hynam and Shannon Suvaljko, a special win for the friends, after leading all the way from barrier two over the 2050m trip, in a mile rate of 2:02:5 around Collies tight circuit.
The final instalment of Hynam’s successful day came up in the last on the card, with Be Home Soon coming from behind the leader to win by 6.1m, but this time saw Emily Suvaljko with the winning steer.
Harness racing is in Hynam’s blood, with an introduction to horses at a young age, he recently made the decision to sell his removalist truck and concentrate on training his horses.
“I was born into it, my uncle Tony Hynam trained from my parents property growing up, so I was his stable hand as a kid.”
Hynam has recently branched out and is now shoeing horses along-side fellow trainer Donald Harper.
Ashleigh Paikos