Tallyman is far from the finished product but the experience of champion jockey Greg Ryan ensured the three-year-old gelding scored his maiden win at Coonabarabran on Monday.
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Tallyman has been a handful for Gulgong trainer Brett Thompson and that’s why experienced campaigners Ryan and Mathew Cahill had ridden him in his first four starts.
He’d shown promise and while Monday’s run still wasn’t perfect, he had enough pace late on to steal a narrow victory from favourite Nic And Run ($2.50) in the Imperial Hotel Maiden Handicap (1200m).
“He has been knocking on the door for a long time and he’s a horse that’s always had the ability but he just hasn’t been able to put it together yet. He’s still really immature,” Jay Thompson, representing his father, told Sky Thoroughbred Central.
“That’s why we’d had Greg and Matty riding him, because he’s such an immature horse.”
Coming from midfield, Tallyman ($6) got a rails run into the straight but Nic And Run had built a healthy lead.
He’s a horse that’s always had the ability but he just hasn’t been able to put it together yet.
- Jay Thompson on Tallyman
But Ryan got his mount to lunge and win by a quarter-of-a-length from Colt Prosser’s hope while Acraman ($6) was third.
Nick Guthrie
I started working at the Daily Liberal in 2013 and now hold the position of senior journalist. I cover all that's happening in sport in Dubbo and the wider western area and have a passion for doing so. If you've got a story that needs telling, reach out.
I started working at the Daily Liberal in 2013 and now hold the position of senior journalist. I cover all that's happening in sport in Dubbo and the wider western area and have a passion for doing so. If you've got a story that needs telling, reach out.
