Karacatis surges through to win the traditional festive season feature at Caulfield yesterday. Picture: Mike Keating Source: Mike Keating / News Limited
IT was almost a very merry Christmas for Adelaide trainer Richard Jolly yesterday.
Stable star Karacatis scrambled home for a short head win in Caulfield's Christmas Stakes and minutes later Jolly's outsider Streetcar Valour failed narrowly to win the feature race of the same name at Morphettville.
Jolly opted to remain at home, leaving it to rising star rider Damien Lane to praise the efforts of both Jolly and Karacatis.
Karacatis surged through to lead the traditional festive season feature, kicking clear on straightening before staving off the late lunge of former South Australian Richie's Vibe.
Lane, who is now entrenched among the upper echelon of riders in Melbourne, said he did not regard Jolly's decision to stay home as a lack of confidence in Karacatis.
"I didn't think that, he's a very good trainer when he sends them over here he sends them for a good reason, as we saw today,'' Lane said.
Lane did what confident, capable jockeys do more often than most - applied Plan B.
Jolly told him to take a sit on Karacatis but the lead proved irresistible.
"The more they came the more he kept pulling out,'' Lane said.
"Leading's probably not his best role. I was told to ride him in fourth or fifth but when you lob there that easily it would be silly to hold him.
"It (adapting) is just instincts.''
Damian Lane drives Karacatis (rails) to the line in the Christmas Stakes. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
Lane, who turns 20 in February, notched his first milestone win aboard longshot Se Sauver in the Manifold Stakes at Flemington last spring.
Yesterday's listed race win came on the eve of Melbourne's rich summer/autumn, where Lane hopes to secure the ride on VRC Oaks runner-up Solicit.
Solicit is trained by Flemington cousins Mat Ellerton and Simon Zahra, Lane's best supporters.
"Mat and Simon have lots of nice young horses and hopefully a few step up,'' he said.
"I'd love to get on Solicit this time in. She's probably our most promising young horse.''
Lane said the absence of some of Melbourne's top riders had provided him with a good opportunity this summer, as did the recent Ellerton/Zahra purple patch.
"I'm having a good run and when Matty and Simon are having a good run too it always helps me,'' he said.
"A few of the top riders are suspended and a few are injured and that always helps the cause.''
Lane rides less regularly for Darren Weir than he did a year or so ago but made an interesting observation about Weir yesterday.
Weir, who has over 100 horses in work at Ballarat, trained a Caulfield treble.
"No doubt he could win the (city) premiership from Ballarat,'' he said.
"He's a very good trainer. He's getting better horses every year.''
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
It is the season to be Jolly
Dengan url
http://sportifoclube.blogspot.com/2013/12/it-is-season-to-be-jolly.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
It is the season to be Jolly
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar