Racing review 11 October 2023

Date: 12-Oct-2023

The midweek metros continued at Ipswich on Wednesday, where Australia’s leading trainer Chris Waller was to the fore, landing a winning treble.

Shares were spoiled amongst the jockeys, with eight different riders landing a winner each.

The Waller team was in full steam, lining punters’ pockets early in the day when the heavily backed Shy Guy ($1.95) won under Jimmy Orman.

As it turned out Shy Guy was the only favourite to win on the card, which featured three winners at double figures.

One of those was Waller’s second winner Skylon ($15), who sat on speed under Jake Bayliss and fended off the much more fancied stablemate Kureder ($2.30) to win the Thisisaconversationstarter Benchmark 68 over 2180m.

The final winner for the Queensland-based Waller team, which is overseen by Brett Killion, was perhaps the most impressive winner of the day. Admonish ($4.80), sporting Denise Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds colours, made it two career wins from as many starts when weaving in between runners to win the last event under Mark Du Plessis.

At her only other start, Admonish had won on Heavy 10 ground at Ipswich in May. It was a tidy effort to beat the older horses first up yesterday and she looks a filly capable of going through her grades over the next few months.

Jag Guthmann-Chester’s great recent form continued when he landed Fenton a $26 winner for the Indiana Turner stable in the Great Northern Maiden Plate (1200m).

And similarly, the recent hot Ipswich strike rate for Kelly Schweida kept rolling when Weigall Tiger ($3.70) won the opening event for Cejay Graham. The son of Saxon Warrior is from Schweida’s former smart mare Tiger Dimejan and is now the winner of two from four, with the likelihood of more to come as she continues to improve.

Ipswich holds another Metropolitan fixture next Wednesday, October 18.

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