After being kicked in foot behind the barriers before the first at Towac Park on Friday celebrated hoop Greg Ryan fought through the pain to pick up two winners at the Orange track, claiming the third and then closing the meet with a victory in the eighth.
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Ryan steered Bjorn Baker’s $3.40 chance Full of Beans to a narrow win in the third before piloting Joey’s Destiny to its fourth career win for Dubbo’s Clint Lundholm in the eighth, finding the lead early and cruising home in the straight.
The four-year-old gelding was a red-hot, $2.70 favourite leading into the Central West Trailers Class 3 Handicap (1300 metres), and proved exactly why in another impressive run.
Cafe Terrace ($31) got the best of the start but Ryan maneuvered Joey’s Destiny, from barrier 10, to the lead and the rail with ease, doing so by the 800 mark.
It was all she wrote from there.
Despite being the top weight and carrying 61kg, Lundholm’s gelding cruised to a one-length lead at the top of the straight and, as Scott Singleton’s Spinning Dawn ($4) started looming, Ryan gave him one more kick and saluted by a length.
Michael Lynch’s Verbal ($11) finished second and Peter Stanley’s Dungannon ($8.50) was a further legnth back in third.
“He’s so consistent so he seems to get the weight all the time, but he had dropped back in grade [on Friday] so he deserved the 61kg,” Lundholm said.
“Greg Ryan just let him coast along in front and he was too strong for them in the finish. It was a good win, Dave (Ringland, the owner) deserves those wins when they come along so it was good to get it form him,”