The spicy Luvaflair made her way back into the winner’s circle on Monday at Pinjarra, with the red-headed six-year-old bringing up her 19th career win at start 105, with her earnings now just shy of $80,000.
Always knocking about in the placings, the in-form mare got the job done in race five on the card for trots man Nigel Johns, but this time with Donald Harper in the cart.
Johns, who piloted Aldebaran Sundown in the race, finished in fifth place after racing roughly and finishing 39.5m behind his stablemate, but it was all smiles in the Johns/Woodley camp with Luvaflair getting the win at $26 odds.
“Ruby” as she’s affectionately known around the stables is quite the handful at the races, but there’s no denying Johns passion for the square trotters, and his association with Luvaflair goes back to her dam, All Flair, who raced for stable from 2012 to 2016, before going in foal to trotting stallion Love You (FRA) before making a comeback in 2021 for a short stint, placing three times in 15 starts, including racing Luvaflair, which was quite the spectacle.
After missing three times, All Flair foaled a bay colt by Majestic Son CA in October 2023 for breeders and owners Kaye and Noel Boyd/
“The colours she carries are Kayes father’s colours but with a pink ‘K’,
“Frank Evans trained and ultimately started the breeding of this trotting line by bypassing buying True Roman to buy Lunah Lass, she won the Derby and Oaks in her year,
“We struck the friendship when we purchased Compressor, Kaye and Noel would let us purchase horses and attend the Redwood All Trotter Carnival.” Woodley said.
Johns passion for the trotters is like no other, and the team has plenty of fresh stock coming through the ranks, with a filly out of Goeslikeluna ready to start working at the track, as well as the brother of Peachee, a two-year-old, with both youngsters by stallion Majestic Son CA.
The stable has plenty of youngsters to work through, with generational interest as well. Upandgone, a winner of eight races, six for the Johns/Woodley stable has a now three-year-old colt in work for the team, as well as a filly out of Xenon who is nearing being broken in.
