Ozzie horse runs twice in 24 hours

THE Anthony Cummings-trained Secretively will take the term ‘quick back up’ to a whole new level when he contests the final event at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday afternoon.

That’s because the five-year-old gelding heads into the race fresh off a third placed finish in the last race at Canterbury Park on Friday night when beaten just under two lengths by the Gary Moore-trained Bergen.

Secretively’s Rosehill assignment on Saturday gets underway at 6.00pm while he contested the final event at Canterbury on Friday night at 9.30pm, meaning a mere 20 hours separates the in-form galloper’s two runs.

“It’s something I did a lot of with good success back in the day,” trainer Anthony Cummings said.

“He went over a few jumps this morning at home and is as bright as a daisy so there was no reason not to back him up. He’s a horse that really thrives on work and I wouldn’t back him up if I didn’t think he will be competitive.

“The way the race played out on Friday night there was still something left in the tank and he’s come through it great and is really full of himself this morning.”

The unorthodox approach for Secretively isn’t deterring punters from believing the son of Dawn Approach can be in the thick of things when the Precise Fire Benchmark 78 (1400m) gets underway late on Saturday afternoon.

After 9am race morning Secretively was a quick firmer, trimming up from $10 to $8 within minutes and his place in the market suggesting victory is well within the realms of possibility.

And there will be no concerns with leading jockey Tommy Berry familiarising himself with the galloper having steered him to his third placed finish at Canterbury less than 24 hours earlier

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I think there was a Corne Spies filly that won 3 times in the space of 7 days on the Poly in PE,I remember as I'm sure it was one of John Sweet's questions in his quiz that he and his daughter put together for us in the Covid lock down period?
John can you provide the name if I'm correct

For those of us that grew up in the Cape in the era of the Cape Hunt meetings,I recall horses winning twice on a day
I think they were penalized 5 kg for the first win ,but often came home lonely to win the second race they ran in later in the day ,

Felix wrote:

For those of us that grew up in the Cape in the era of the Cape Hunt meetings,I recall horses winning twice on a day
I think they were penalized 5 kg for the first win ,but often came home lonely to win the second race they ran in later in the day ,

If I can remember correctly, there was a "champion" named Sandy who ran like that.

Felix wrote:

I think there was a Corne Spies filly that won 3 times in the space of 7 days on the Poly in PE,I remember as I'm sure it was one of John Sweet's questions in his quiz that he and his daughter put together for us in the Covid lock down period?
John can you provide the name if I'm correct

Velvet Verona.

I read somewhere that Binda won with a horse on two consecutive days. The late Buddy Martin, I think also achieved this. I remember in the 1990s that a horse called Bwana Bahati ran on Boxing Day at Clairwood then won the next day at Greyville. Alot of horses have won in the UK in two consecutive days.

In Australia horses have run on the Saturday before the Melbourne Cup and then ran in the Cup on the Tuesday.

Early in the twentieth century, Sir Barton, won the American Triple Crown and won another race inbetween, thats four races in a month to 36 days. I think another horse also accomplished the same feat.

Thanks Naresh

You are correct horses is Aus often run in big races a couple of days apart, UK especially over jumps have won twice on same day or a day apart.

The majority of SA trainers have the 4 to 6 weeks between races and Buddy Maroun was first to very successfully break the tradition.

For the Melbourne Cup any hopeful marginal qualifiers race on the Saturday prior to the Tuesday’s cup.

In the days of yore it was quite common for heat races where the horse ran twice (perhaps more) on a day.


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