New Fitz fits nicely
Harrow district breeders Peter and Marie Fitzgerald have enjoyed plenty of harnessracing success over the years with horses carrying the ‘Fitz’ moniker.
The latest to fly the family flag, Blue Vein Fitz, brought up her maiden victory at Terang.
The three-year-old daughter of Betterthancheddar, USA, began smartly from gate two and when in front driver Matty Craven set a moderate tempo through the first half of the 1680-metre contest.
Craven gave his charge more rein at the 800-metre mark and the filly dashed home in splits of 28.7 and 28.1 seconds to score by 3.1 metres in a rate of 1:57.3.
Blue Vein Fitz is the fourth and final offspring of Hi Ho Fitz, 16 wins, and a half-sister to Ritzy Fitz, five wins, Sammy Fitz, two, and Big Mumma Fitz, five.
Concongella owner-trainer Kenneth Taylor Junior was also a winner at Terang, with his seven-year-old gelding Kempseys Delight leading all the way with Ararat reinswoman Emma Hamblin in the sulky.
The son of Bettors Delight, USA, is a veteran of 95 starts and has been a consistent performer for Taylor since debuting as a three-year-old at Charlton on December 31, 2015.
Although, in a frustrating run of outs, Kempseys Delight racked up 17 minor placings from his first 34 starts before scoring a victory at Hamilton in June 2018.
With the drought broken, Kempseys Delight has since built a more than respectable career record of five wins, 30 minors and $48,346 for the Taylor family.
Horsham owners Barry and Yvonne Dunn also celebrated a victory at the Terang meeting when their four-year-old gelding Glenavril King out-toughed the opposition in an $8000 race over 2180 metres.
Glenavril King has been racing in redhot form since joining the Grant Campbell team at Great Western about five weeks ago.
The son of Courage Under Fire, NZ, has notched up three wins and a second for the Campbell-manning camp and now boasts a career record of five wins, seven minors and a bank of $32,070 from 23 starts.
Metro class squaregaiter Deltasun resumed after an eight-week absence with a strong performance at Terang, taking out the trotters handicap with Kerryn Manning aboard.
The six-year-old gelded son of Tennotrump stepped away slowly but safely from its 40-metre handicap and made ground gradually to tack onto the field.
Manning was content to bide her time with Deltasun until the 500-metre mark when she eased the trotter out three and four wide and made a run at the leaders.
Deltasun sprinted quickly to have the race in its keeping at the top of the home straight and went on to score by 3.4 metres in a rate of 2:02.3 for the 2180-metre journey.
With a record of 18 wins, 19 minors and $241,385 Deltasun has already given owner Alison Young and her father-in-law and trainer Terry Young plenty of joy and barring injury there looks to be more in store.