REINETTE scooted away with the MJ and NJ McInnes Plumbing Maiden Handicap (1000m) yesterday giving her Tamworth jockey a welcome happy homecoming.
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The Craig Martin-trained chestnut mare was having her 12th race start for her Tamworth trainer and made it a one act affair when Drury and the daughter of Dream Ballad raced clear at the top of the straight for what became a two and three quarter length win from unlucky Cut The Jazz (Gavin Groth).
Craig Martin was delighted with the win and hopes she will win a few more.
Drury too was delighted with the lightly raced mare.
At 25 she has been back in the saddle for just a few weeks after a six month break on a West Australian cattle station.
She had won at one of her first rides back at Inverell two weeks previous.
“That was great,” Drury said.
“I won on one of Rockie’s (stable foreman Chris Rock) at Inverell. And then today. It’s really good to be back after a good break. I went over to Western Australia on a cattle station near Carnarvon in the Kennedy Ranges. I loved it. Something completely different and something I’ve always wanted to do. I had six months over there – it’s another world.
“I had a really good break and cleared my head.
“But I’m glad to be back too.”
She’s riding at 56kg at the moment but hopes to drop that as her fitness and riding demands increase.
A little over half an hour later and she had a double after Deedles waltzed in with a four and quarter length win in the MW and LM Single Builders Maiden Handicap (1400m).
Craig Martin also trains four-year-old Deedles, a full sister to Jefferson Park.
“She’s a nice horse, totally different to Jefferson Park though,” Drury said.