Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Young reinsman Corey Peterson celebrated his first week as a stablehand at trainer Nathan Turvey’s Ravenswood stable by driving Lets Get Rockin to victory in the SEFS The Asset Finance Specialists Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
The win gave the 23-year-old Peterson his 246TH driving success, and apart from working for Turvey he will continue to train a team of five pacers.
Lets Get Rockin, a six-year-old by Mach Three, is showing excellent promise and his first three starts in WA for the Turvey stable have produced two wins to take his career record to 61 starts for 12 wins, 19 placings and $205,825 in prizemoney.
He raced 49 times in New South Wales for nine wins and 18 placings, and his nine appearances in Queensland resulted in one win and one placing.
Lets Get Rockin showed considerable early promise, with a win in a Group 3 feature event for two-year-old colts and geldings at Newcastle in November 2020, and in May 2022 he won a $100,000 Group 1 feature event at Menangle.
He is the first foal out of the Sportswriter mare Ravishing Girl, who raced 45 times for nine wins, five placings and $39,798. Ravishing Girl has also produced the brilliant five-year-old Captain Ravishing (18 starts for nine wins, five placings and $518,140) and three-year-old Ravishing Sloy (13 starts for seven wins, two placings and $90,216).
“Corey started working as a stablehand for me this week, and it should be a good opportunity for him,” said Turvey. “He will be doing a fair bit of the stable driving.”
Lets Get Rockin was the third favourite at $5.20 in Friday night’s 2130m event in which he began from the No. 2 barrier on the back line.
Adda Spoilt Major was the $3.40 favourite who surged straight to the front from the No. 4 barrier and withstood an early challenge for the lead from the Turvey-trained mare and $11 chance Rocknroll Sass.
Gary Hall Jnr quickly angled Rocknroll Sass to trail the pacemaker, while Lets Get Rockin settled down in ninth position. Lets Get Rockin was in seventh place when Peterson sent him forward with 950m to travel. He sustained a strong three-wide burst to get to the front 300m from home, and he went on to win by a neck from $10 chance Thomson Bay, who followed the winner in the final circuit and fought on determinedly.