There was no extra deserving win at Cromwell right this moment than that of Macandrew Aviator (Panspacificflight).
It was not solely his first win in a very long time (905 days), but it surely was the right approach for the horse’s coach Jeremy Douglas and one of many gelding’s principal homeowners Megan Reidie who’ve simply married, to rejoice the event.
“Megan and I bought married three weeks in the past and deliberate that this was nearly as good because it was going to get so far as a honeymoon was going to go. We’ve been to Aussie a few instances inside the final 12 months so we settled on this,” Douglas mentioned.
It was the 9 12 months previous geldings first win since September 2023 and the primary for Douglas who’s educated the gelding since March final 12 months.
“It’s taken some time for us to get him to drop again. He’s one of many victims of the re-rating of horses. He wasn’t fairly ok to go together with the nice horses and he needed to go off lengthy marks when he raced in opposition to anything.”
After starting properly off the twenty metre mark in todays $20,000 McNulty Transport Cromwell Fruit Bowl, driver Hayden Douglas positioned Macandrew Aviator again on the within operating line earlier than he moved him ahead to sit down parked. Contained in the final 400 he started to stress the chief Tabasco with Bettor Means stalking the pair.
Contained in the final 50 metres Douglas bought the perfect out of Macandrew Aviator and he bought as much as beat Bettor Means by a head with Tabasco a neck again in third. The fourth horse was seven and a half lengths away.
MACANDREW AVIATOR REPLAY
The race was marred when sizzling favorite Seashore Day broke dropping all probability.
“He hasn’t been a simple horse to handle. He’s had a lot of little points. Nothing tremendous critical however very annoying. He’s been a bit painful to maintain proper, however he’s Megan’s favorite so we’ll put up with that.”
Douglas mentioned he doesn’t have any critical targets for Macandrew Aviator.
“I see him as a horse that’s executed an excellent job for the homeowners, principally in Canterbury and now’s an opportunity for him to race domestically for some time and decide up a bit of cash the place he can and have a look at smaller targets.”
It was a great day for Hayden Douglas. He drove the Matt Brinsdon educated At all times A Menace (At all times B Miki) to win the Hygain – Revel Douglas Memorial Collection Cell Tempo.
For full race outcomes, click on right here.
by Bruce Stewart, for Harnesslink
