PURCHASED for $340,000 at the 2012 Melbourne Yearling Sales, Jenuine Wish was sent to a tried horse sale in Sydney after an early race track failure and fetched a meagre $1200.
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Now raced by Mark Baker and trained at Coonabarabran by Wayne Martyn, Jenuine Wish won the Gold Medal Chinese Restaurant Maiden Handicap (1000m) at Gilgandra on Saturday.
Coming down the outside, Jenuine Wish (Ken Dunbar, $10.00) won by two lengths from Senoritaville (Adam Sewell, $26.00) with a head to the pacemaker Venus Amoris (Leanne G Henry, $2.80 fav).
By the top bracket sire Fastnet Rock, Jenuine Wish is out of the mare Elusive Wonder, which is closely related to several top-class gallopers.
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Bathurst trainer Kevin Higgins has a small team of mainly cast-off gallopers and has achieved remarkable results during the past two seasons.
He was in the winner's circle again at Gilgandra on Saturday with Tiger Bassie.
With champion jockey Greg Ryan aboard, Tiger Bassie ($5.50) tracked the pacemakers and was a convincing two-and-a-quarter-length winner over Enley (Nyssa Burrells, $21.00) and Dances On Rainbows (Michael Hackett, $10.00) in the Ahrens Benchmark 45 Handicap (1800m).
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Veteran trainer Les Willis from Rylstone won the Gilgandra Services Club Maiden Plate (1200m) with Melisandre.
Les Willis has trained some good gallopers, including smart sprinter School Prince, however Melisandre has taken 24 starts to break the ice.
Melisandre (Eleanor Webster-Hawes, $9.00) gained an inside run and lasted to beat Intombi (Darren Jones, $2.30 fav) by a half-length with I'm Away (Vad Bolozhinskyi, $6.00) a close third.
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The first leg of a winning double for talented young Dubbo jockey Kody Nestor at Gilgandra on Saturday was the Kylie Kennedy, Narromine-trained She'll Avago in the Wideland Ag and Construction Benchmark 45 Handicap (1000m).
From the inside draw, She'll Avago ($4.00) had a nice run and prevailed over Princess Bea (Greg Ryan, $8.00) and Justine (Darren Jones, $3.00 fav).
In the Gilgandra Sporties Benchmark 50 Handicap (1300 metres), the Mark Milton, Gulgong-trained Raised For Battle (Kody Nestor, $3.80) raced close to the speed and was a half-length winner over Layne (Adam Sewell, $10.00) and Romanticize (Leanne G Henry, $10.00).
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Dubbo's TAB meeting was postponed from last Friday to race this Thursday and will be followed by Duck Creek Picnics on Saturday, Coonamble's TAB meeting on Sunday and Bathurst's TAB meeting on Tuesday.
