Telfers Extend Premiership Lead with Addington Double

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Steve and Amanda Telfer had a good night at Addington raceway last night, training two winners to extend their lead in the trainers premiership.

C C Ardern smashed them in the Garrards Horse & Hound Handicap pace with driver Tim Williams. The gelding negotiated the standing start well, was restrained but unable to slot in for the first six hundred metres of the race. From there Williams made all the right moves to end up 1×1 from the one thousand metre mark before the field broke up at the quarter. Williams and C C Ardern then shot clear to win by five and a quarter lengths from stablemate Carbon.

That was C C Ardern’s third win from ten starts.

Akatea made it four wins in a row by winning the Woodlands Winning Yearlings mobile pace. Williams went forward from the gate to lead quickly, before Spirit Of Anarchy and Carter Dalgety came out and around to arrest the lead soon after. From there Williams and Akatea were just biding their time for the passing lane, which they took, punching through to win by a neck from Cheer The Captain giving the Telfers a second stable quinella for the night.

“She’s been consistent, getting the right runs and doing the job,” said cotrainer Amanda Telfer.

“She will now go into the Silk Road final next week, so this run would have topped her off perfectly.

“She will probably have a fortnight to a month off after that, then get ready for the good mares race on Show Day.

The owners are the Stonewall Stud No.20 Syndicate.

“The owners are lucky, they have her and Seaside Rose.”

That was the four year old Art Major mare’s seventh win from thirty four starts.

The Telfers now lead the premiership with eighty wins for the season, ahead of Michael House who sits on seventy three wins.

It was a night of doubles at Addington, with Oamaru trainer Phil Williamson also making it a double with Atlantic City (Ricky May) and Jimmy Carter (John Morrison) bringing his total training wins to 799.

The Dalgety team also joined in the double party by taking out the first two races on the programme with Forever Dream and Sugar Babe both driven by Carter.

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