TEPARY was trained by Graham Moon until a recent move to Andrew Ison’s Warral stable.
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Last Thursday, the five-year-old mare won her second race for Ison when she led all the way to win the Graham Moon Plumbing Pace (1980m).
Moon, who moved to Tamworth from Goulburn to set up a new plumbing business and pacing stable, has also played a major role in the development of teenage driver Tom Ison.
Young Ison drives most of Moon’s pacers and is a rising star.
Moon also handed Andrew Tepary to train recently and it was ironic she almost won the Graham Moon Plumbing Pace.
Graham’s wife, Jenny, still owns the daughter of Ohoka Arizona.
And Ison still presents that widest of win grins after a success.
Ison rated her perfectly in front, leading all the way to hang on for a head win from the Tony Missen-trained Im Mached Out last Thursday.
Ison was as chirpy as ever afterwards in his trackside interview with on-course interviewer and THR deputy chairman Mark Lowe.
“I was worried turning for home,” Ison said.
“We were very lucky.”
Lowe reckoned it more the good drive than luck.
Tamworth trainer Missen would have been hoping for Ison to make a slight mishap after his $3000 claimed, I’m Mached Out, had a tough run to finish stoutly and go within a head of a 16th career win.
The 10-year-old gelding was having his 103rd race start.
“We’ve won four with him, two of them last season and one, at Dubbo, he paid $75,” Missen said.
“Bucko used to own him too and won two with him before he got out of him.”
The Bucko Missen was referring to is former Tamworth trainer/driver Trevor Buckingham, who also owns Samuel Thomas, who won last Thursday’s Kootingal Hotel Pace (1980m) by 4.25m from the Julie Weidemann trained and driven Dreamy Nukes.
Unfortunately Buckingham is extremely ill in Tamworth Hospital.
“He’s pretty crook,” Missen told The Leader after Samuel Thomas’s win.
Samuel Thomas found his best form to run away with Thursday’s race, the five-year-old gelding son of Dawn Of A New Day clocking 58.8secs for the last 800m.
Josh Osborn drove Samuel Thomas and was hopeful the win was a tonic for “Bucko”.
“Hopefully it gives him a kick along,” Osborn told on-course interviewer Mark Lowe.
Osborn himself is just back from a Thai holiday “eating and sitting around the pool”.
Samuel Thomas, Osborn said, won easily.
“I grabbed hold early but he led easily,” he said.
“He cruised home from there.”
He ran 58.8 for the last 800m “on his ear” the young reinsman said.
Missen hopes that win is not only a kickalong for the owner but a launching pad for the gelding.
He won a trial last week (before the race) going 2minutes.
“Got to the line really good in that trial so I thought he had a good chance today. But that was an impressive win. It’s the first time he’s drawn a barrier too.”
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Racing Club race again on Thursday, February 18 when they stage their Joan Bullock Memorial.
