Former top jockey-turned-trainer Danny Beasley is banking on quality rather than quantity at Wagga on Sunday when he saddles up one runner. Beasley will start form galloper Screen Spirit in the WIN Network Country Boosted Benchmark 58 Handicap (1200m), with the three-year-old son of Brazen Beau out to make it a hat-trick of victories. “He’s a nice horse that is heading in the right direction,” Beasley said. “He won well on the Riverside at Wagga two starts ago and then backed that up with another
victory at Narrandera. He’s racing very well and he only needs to have held that form to be hard to hold out again on Sunday.” Jack Martin, who was in the saddle in Screen Spirit’s Riverside victory at Wagga, is back on board on Sunday after Pierre Boudvillain rode the gelding to the Narrandera win.
Danny Beasley, Screen Spirit, Wagga, WIN Network Country Boosted Benchmark 58 Handicap, 1200m, Brazen Beau, Jack Martin, Pierre Boudvillain
Only one runner?? Kinda weird lol
They say he won well two starts ago and then again at Narrandera… so basically it’s the same track luck again? I dunno. Sounds like “Screen Spirit” is their whole plan and if it flops they’re done.
Wait, so Jack Martin rode him at Wagga then Pierre rode him at Narrandera and now Jack is back again? That seems like a lot of switching jockeys like it’s some kind of test. Also “hat-trick” like three wins in a row, right? Hope that’s true cause otherwise the headline’s kinda misleading.
I don’t know anything about horses but I always read these like it means the trainer knows best because he’s “banking on quality.” Like ok but what if the horse is tired or the track is different? 1200m doesn’t sound far but apparently it is. I’ll just say I’m rooting for Screen Spirit though.