Murray Bridge trainer Michael Hickmott’s imposing strike-rate in season 2022-23 continued over the weekend.
Just over a week since he added a $1.1m yearling to his stable from the Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast, Michael Hickmott had four metropolitan victories and is striking at 23.4 per cent runners to winners this season.
Hickmott had three winners at the rescheduled Murray Bridge meeting with Lacrima, Lake's Folly and Exalted Fire all successful on Friday before stable newcomer Tanaawol scored his first win for 867 days first-up in South Australia at Gawler on Saturday.
"A huge amount of credit to my entire team for helping turn his career around,'' Hickmott tweeted about Tanaawol.
"He is absolutely thriving being trained from our farm on the heavy sand,'' he said,.
Hickmott, who claimed the 2020-21 Adelaide Trainer's Premiership, has produced 22 winners this season to sit third on the SA Trainers Premiership, 19 of those wins coming in the city where he sits just eight wins shy of Richard and Chantelle Jolly.
Lachlan Neindorf had riding a double at Gawler on Saturday, bookending the meeting winning the opening race with two-year-old Harley'n'Rose on debut for Gordon Richards and Damien Moyle before Victorian visitor Blonde Venture scored at odds in the last.
Todd Pannell was in the winners stall aboard Victorian mare Bundle Of Fun who claimed the Bung Fritz Cup adding to a double on Friday while Sairyn Fawke also had a double at Murray Bridge on Friday.
ACROSS the water on Saturday Hurricane Sonny strengthened his amazing record at Kangaroo Island recording his ninth Kingscote victory.
The David Page trained 12-year-old was first successful at KI in 2015, has missed a placed at just five of his 22 starts on track and was the second leg of a riding double for Britney Wong.
Paula Trenwith took training honours with a double with Oakfield Geronimo and Super Contender, the third of her three runners Magic Delta running second.
AT Mount Gambier on Sunday Dom Tourneur took riding honours with a double in combination with master local horseman Michael O'Leary.
Lightly-raced mare Picaroon got things rolling before they claimed the Summer Cup and third leg of the Limestone Coast Cup Series when Bossy Britches defied Clever Man in a driving finish.
AND apprentice Lizzie Annells recorded her first Tasmanian double at Hobart on Sunday.
Annells has racked up countless frequent flyer points over the past year as a regular visitor to the Apple Isle and scored a race to race double with Yanosha and Dark Wanderer.
