The Tamworth Rush was predicted to be an exciting race at the Tamworth Jockey Club and that prediction came true - just not for the reasons punters envisioned.
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A number of horses were using the race to highlight their credentials for The Kosciuszko but things went amiss for some of the local hopes.
Firstly, last year's winner of the Tamworth Rush - the Brett Cavanough-trained Dubai Tycoon - was scratched in the morning on vets advice.
The hot favourite in the race - Edit who is trained by Tamworth's Cody Morgan - then followed suit.
The New Zealand gelding was set for his first race in Australia but was a late scratching, just 12 minutes before the race was set to jump, on vets advice after reportedly hitting its head in the stalls.
If that wasn't enough, Cassy's Sister, then missed the start by 10 lengths.
The reason? As the gates were opening, the Tamworth mare stuck her head into the neighbouring stall.
By the time Mikayla Weir got Cassy's Sister out and running, the rest of the field had gained a big head start.
The Troy O'Neile-trained mare got going to finish third, just behind the Ross Dawson-trained Gold Bracelet.
Those two finished about four and a half lengths off the winner Superior Witness.
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The four-year-old jumped the best of the field from barrier seven and found the front.
From there the Luke Thomas gelding never let go of the lead to score the big win.
Jockey Jake Pracey-Holmes said the query heading into the race was the distance.
It was the first time Superior Witness had raced over 1200m with all its previous wins coming over 1000m.
"He's just so brilliant out of the barriers," Pracey-Holmes told Sky Thoroughbred Central.
"I'd said 'just leave it up to me'. He'll either relax or he won't and obviously he relaxed enough to put them away."
Ben Jaffrey
Ben is a content curator and journalist for The Land. He has been with ACM since 2015 and first worked at The Area News and then at the Northern Daily Leader. Ben first joined ACM Agri as a digital journalist for all seven agricultural mastheads in 2022 before shifting to The Land full-time in 2023.
Ben is a content curator and journalist for The Land. He has been with ACM since 2015 and first worked at The Area News and then at the Northern Daily Leader. Ben first joined ACM Agri as a digital journalist for all seven agricultural mastheads in 2022 before shifting to The Land full-time in 2023.
