Romary’s mile romance continues

Smart mare makes it two wins on the bounce.

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ROMARY. Picture: Tas Racing

Smart mare Romary again showed her liking for the 1600m trip with a strong all-the-way win in the Rod Thirkell-Johnston BM68 in Launceston on Wednesday night.

The track and distance specialist has had eight starts over 1600m for six wins, and at the Launceston track and trip her record is now five starts for four wins. Overall, she has now won eight times, all since joining the John Luttrell stable 18 months ago.

Apprentice Chloe Wells allowed the grey to bowl along in front and she held off Imagine Howe and Namabaale.

Stable representative Nicole Luttrell was delighted with the effort.

"She's very tough, she won very well at Hobart last start and the claim tonight has really helped, full credit to Chloe she's done a lot of work for us lately and we repaid her with the win tonight".

Luttrell and Wells then made it a race-to-race double when Move On Over kicked strongly to make it two wins from as many starts in Tasmania.

Darma double


Senior rider Anthony Darmanin gave what could only be described as a 'peach' of a ride to land Enchanted Spy a winner in the Neil Herbert Maiden (1120m).

From an awkward draw, 'Darma' had Enchanted Spy in the box seat, third on the fence after the field had travelled just 100m.

From then on, the lightly raced John Blacker trained 3YO was always travelling like a winner.

"All her runs this campaign she's been improving and I really think tonight if she hadn't have drawn where she did (11), and had an inside gate, she would have  started a lot shorter but it was a good ride.

"Her gate speed got her into a good position and from the 600m she always looked like she would run top three, and she was strong late," Blacker said after the race.

Having just her fifth start, Enchanted Spy was easy in the market from $10 out to $17 before late support saw her start at $14.

Darmanin had a bookend double on the night when he partnered the Glenn Stevenson-trained Malevolent to an all-the-way win in the final race of the evening.

Punters blow out early

Rarely does Adam Trinder train a $51 winner but they was the case in the R.M Bertram Maiden (1620m).

Golden Prophet, part owned by popular Seven Tasmania weather presenter Peter Murphy, came with a well-timed run to score first-up from a spell at just his second race start.

The 3YO had been placed at two Longford trials leading into Wednesday night's race but was a big drifter after opening at $19.


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