Cameron Crockett knows Sharpe Hussler will be an outsider in the $160,000 Ramornie Handicap at Grafton next month but he will head more with more confidence after the gelding’s win at Dubbo on Friday.
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Sharpe Hussler took out a competitive Touch Of Beauty Open Handicap (1000m) sprint event, apprentice jockey Chris Williams again showing his talent in a two-and-one-third length win.
“He tries his heart out and a dream to have in the stable. We like him a lot,” Crockett said, his six-year-old set for another rise in the ratings.
“We’ll go to the Ramornie and I know he’s probably not quite up to a race like that but these open handicap horses are impossible to place. Once his benchmark goes up again now they just can’t win with the weight.”
Friday’s event was an extremely open one with six of the eight horses involved jumping at less than $10.
The pace was rapid early but Williams wasn’t too interested as he and Sharpe Hussler ($5.50) sat well back, alongside Cockles ($5) and Mosrai ($8.50).
The Clint Lundholm-trained Snippety Sip (Jake Pracey-Holmes, $20) jostled for the lead with Just A Bullet (Chad Lever, $7.50) and the pair led the field into the straight.
But the field had bunched and once Williams saw a gap he and Sharpe Hussler moved clear.
Mosrai followed home well for second while Heza Thief (Ken Dunbar, $8) was third.
Crockett added Williams was a jockey “going places” after piloting Sharpe Hussler to a eighth win from 32 career starts.