David Lewis
LEWISTON trainer Clint Trengove’s decision to bring down some of his better greyhounds to Mount Gambier for last Sunday’s Category 2 meeting paid dividends when Bruisin’ Bull, Bedrock Will, Paua Of Silence and Anasazi Monelli were all successful.
This had been the former Broken Hill trainer’s best day at Tara Raceway since March last year when he had won with Gypsy Boy, Zipping Loxley and Racey Kasey at a Thursday time-graded meeting.
Bruisin’ Bull kicked Trengove’s day off in winning style – albeit narrowly – when leading all the way in the 400-metre Progreyhoundtips.com Stake and defeating Barra Banjo by a nose in 23.49 seconds.
Now a winner of 10 races, the blue dog is by Blue Moon Rising out of Stitch ‘em Baby, an eight-race short course winner – one of those wins over 400 metres at Mount Gambier in November 2019.
With four runners engaged in the 600-metre Greg Martlow Autos Stake, Trengove looked to hold a strong hand, especially given Bedrock Will had won at Angle Park and Gawler over 595 metres and 643 metres respectively.
That is how the Grade 6 race played out.
Bedrock Will never looked in any danger of defeat after quickly finding the front from box six before running out a 7¼ length winner over kennelmate Daisy Maisy in a time of 35.70 seconds.
By My Redeemer, the winner is out of Dashing Dee Dee – a well-bred daughter of Cosmic Rumble and Little Looper – who was a middle-distance winner both at Angle Park and Gawler.
Paua Of Silence was always going to be hard to beat in the Carlin and Gazzard Mixed Stake over 512 metres, especially if he could recapture some of the Sandown Park 515-metre 29.33 second form he had displayed in May last year.
The son of Sennachie and Paua To Admit – and a great-grandson of the former terrific race bitch Paua To Burn – had spent most of the last half of 2023 in recovery mode at Broken Hill with Wade and Chad Hipwell.
Paua Of Silence joined Trengove’s kennels in early December and after a 30.94 seconds satisfactory trial over 530 metres at Angle Park he followed up with a win in 31.04 seconds.
It is probably fair to say Trengove probably was not quite expecting what was to follow on Sunday afternoon come the seventh race and after he had placed the 35 kilogram black dog in box eight.
What did happen was Paua Of Silence simply exploded from the boxes, crossed down to the rails and was never going to be beaten.
On the line he had 7¾ lengths to spare over Here To Burn after running a quick 29.69 seconds.
Wrapping up a pretty good day for Trengove was Anasazi Monelli, who also led all the way from box eight in the 512-metre Exchange Printers Stake when defeating In The Bug by 3½ lengths in 30.01 seconds.
In Trengove’s kennels since October, the daughter of Fernando Bale and Corona Monelli quickly strung together six wins on the trot at Angle Park and Gawler for Munno Para owner Lena Dureikina.
Following were a couple of misses at Angle Park but it took only to last Sunday for Anasazi Monelli to bounce back and give her trainer four winners for the day.
Actually, it could have been his best day ever at Tara Raceway although with the number of Trengove trainers in circulation keeping a tally can be a little confusing.
After all, Jack Trengove (Clint’s nephew), was at Tara Raceway with 20 runners for the time-graded meeting.
Meanwhile, following a disappointing stint in Victoria which resulted in six unplaced runs, Paw Some Storm bounced back at Tara Raceway last Sunday with an all-the-way win in the 400-metre Trackside Pet Meats Pick 6 Open over Compton Yap in 22.94 seconds.
By Bernardo out of Dusseldorp, Paw Some Storm is raced by Jason Newman and Dave Green and trained by the latter at Millicent.
On track to enjoy the win were Green’s wife Keston and daughters Kaia and Hadlie.
Not only did Paw Some Storm win but the family also celebrated Kaia’s 11th birthday.
