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2 November, 2025
Zenario prevails in kerfuffle at Guineas
THE Shaun and Jason McNaulty’s 3yo Zenario survived a home turn kerfuffle to win the 43rd edition of the Mildura Guineas on Tuesday night.
THE Shaun and Jason McNaulty’s 3yo Zenario survived a home turn kerfuffle to win the 43rd edition of the Mildura Guineas on Tuesday night.
Drawing the inside of the second row at the start behind a $101 chance meant that the Kooreh trained pacer was always going to be back in the field in the run and he was still seventh as the field made their way into the back straight the last time.
He was still fourth coming out of the last turn when he was involved in the three horse incident that checked his progress around the field. When seemingly all was lost the Sportswriter gelding and his driver Luke Dunne were able to quickly regather their momentum and flew past the leaders in the short Mildura straight to win by 1.2m, rating 1.57.5 for the 2190m race. The winner is raced by his South Australian breeders Danielle Helbers and Paul Arnup and has now had nine starts for four wins and two placings.
The winning driver made it a double for the night when he drove the winner of the “Luke Humphreys, Good Luck in Korea Pace.” Humphreys, whose calls of harness races in Victoria were easily recognisable, has accepted a position calling thoroughbred races in South Korea.
Bendigo last Wednesday saw Andrea O’Gorman’s mare Fair Chance continued with her purple patch of form when she bought up a hatrick of wins in taking out the second race on the programme. The Leon Fanning trained, Luke Dunne driven 5yo, who started from barrier two on the second row, has now won five from her last seven starts and her mile rate of 1.55.6 was a career best time.
At Melton on Friday night Navarre trainer Toby Ainsworth and his wife Ada Massa were rewarded for their persistence with their trotter Rasengan who won its maiden race at its twenty eighth start. The 4yo gelding by Swedish born sire Sebastian K had been racing consistently this season being placed on nine occasions from its fifteen starts.
The Charlton club will try their first Cup Day weekend meeting on Monday.
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