CROOKED Blaze appreciated a good barrier and being back at home for the first time in many months as the Tamworth gelding skipped clear for a decisive win in today’s $20,000 Allsopp Signs Open Handicap (1200m).
The Melissa Dennett-trained six-year-old son of Ad Valorem has been in work for almost 12 months and has raced in Queensland, the North Coast, out west and even in Sydney at his most recent trek.
Through all those, he hasn’t been far from the winners.
He’s also been “knocking on the $200,000 prizemoney door’ for all that time too, Dennett said.
Today she had just one main instruction for 19-year-old apprentice Clayton Gallagher: “Be patient”.
He was.
Gallagher, who is apprenticed to Rodney Robb but currently on loan to Brett Cavanough at Scone, made the most of barrier one.
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