Another Milestone Meeting For Young
Sagatious bringing up the first win for Maddy Young on the day. Photo Credit- Photography by Jodie Hallows
Maddy Young has been in the spotlight of late, with a string of firsts in the industry in the past few weeks, with Friday’s day meeting at Bunbury the host of the 28-year-olds first training double. The wins also gave Darren and Nic Schofield an owning double on the card.
With almost a year between wins, Sagatious was restrained at release point, and after settling three back on the pegs over the 1609m, Young found herself with a clear run 100m from home after patiently biding her time, pulling out three wide to win by a half neck in 1:56:7 in race three.
Young didn’t have long to wait for her training double, with Pivotal taking out the fifth on the card in another narrow margin finish. After settling in the one-one position throughout over the 2100m, Young had to make her move three wide 700m from home, but with a winning mile rate of 2:00:6, the five-year-old managed to get the cash for the Schofield family, as well as giving dam ‘Sagacity’ a progeny double on the day.
“I got them because Darren works up north, and I was driving Sags (Sagatious) for him, so he asked if I would take him, which later led to taking Piv (Pivotal) when he went back up north.”
A dual licenced trainer, Young currently has a team of five standardbreds in work, as well as two gallopers, with Young mentioning that she has one nearly ready to trial.
“I enjoy riding them (the gallopers) and find them more comfortable to ride than the pacers. More so a little challenge that is proving to be very hard to win a race.”
Young obtained her thoroughbred trainer’s licence in 2020 and although she is yet to experience a win in the gallops, she does plan to continue to train both standardbreds and thoroughbreds for the foreseeable future.
Pivotal’s win on Friday at Bunbury.
Other winners on the day included two-year-old Spiritofanangel breaking through for her maiden win at her eight start for Terry Keenan and Nathan Turvey in race one.
Justin Prentice and Gary Hall Jnr joined forces for a treble on the day, with Rambo Rabbit kicking off the successful day for the duo, with a comfortable win in race two. $1.09 favourite Tricky Miki claimed a narrow victory in race six, with the third instalment of the winning treble coming up in race seven, with Mr Fantastic NZ running down the leader and race favourite to win by a head in the second heat of the John Higgins Memorial.
Aiden De Campo trained and reined Navy Street to victory in race four, with the $1.50 favourite bringing up his second win in just nine starts.
Team Bond took out the last on the card with their new recruit Himself NZ winning on debut with Ryan Warwick in the cart. The $1.18 favourite started off the 40m handicap in the standing start over the 2503m, and after eventually working his way to the lead, kicked away to win by 7.3m in 2:03:2.
Ashleigh Paikos