Widely travelled Lass has city win

IF prizes were handed out for Australia’s most travelled racehorse, then Marymount Lass would be right up there.

A $26 winner at Morphettville on Saturday in a heat of the Skybeau Series over 2023m, the Trevor Daytrained seven-year-old mare is used to roaming far and wide for success.

Chalking up a sixth win from 41 starts, and career earnings approaching $100,000, the mare has now won at Morphettville, Oakbank, Quorn and Kingscote since Day and wife Julie took over the mare’s training about 12 months ago, and at Hanging Rock and Alice Springs with previous trainer Neil Dyer. Day, who races Marymount Lass with wife

Julie and Kingscote-based Donna Stanborough, said it was a thrill to win with the mare at headquarters.

“She just loves to race and we love to travel and especially in the days before there were travel restrictions,” Day said. “I knew we had a pretty handy one when we first had her.

“We are a very small stable so have the time to put in the one-on-one care horses need.”