Captain Mannering coasts home a comfortable winner at Gloucester Park for Chris Voak and trainer Giles Inwood Photo by Hamilton Content Creators
The husband and wife team of Greg and Skye Bond produced a winning treble at Gloucester Park last night.
Gary Hall Snr also trained a winning treble at the meeting.
Pretty much a standard Friday night’s fare at Australia’s historic city venue with the leading trainers dominating.
Hopeland trainer Giles Inwood hadn’t trained a city class winner for seven years, September 2012, when he took three starters to Gloucester Park last night – he left the course with a winning double.
Giles has been training since 2005 and after last night he has a total of 93 winners including 11 city class winners at Gloucester Park.
In the eighth race Giles geared up two runners in Batavia On Fire and Gangbuster which had drawn alongside each other in the 2096 metre standing start event.
Michael Grantham got Batavia On Fire home at the odds of $6.50 while Morgan Woodley finished second on the $11.00 chance Gangbuster.
Thirty minutes later Giles put the gear on the former New Zealand pacer Captain Mannering and driver Chris Voak didn’t panic as he landed the $8.00 chance ahead of the $2.80 favourite Sergeant Oats – a shame for all Dad’s Army fans that it wasn’t Sergeant Wilson in second place.
Three runners for two wins and a second was the perfect result for Giles Inwood.
