Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Redoubtable seven-year-old gelding Classnmart recorded a memorable victory, his first at Gloucester Park, when Shannon Suvaljko brought him home with a strong finish to get up in the final stride and beat the pacemaker Alfredi by a nose in the $21,000 TCS Property Maintenance Pace on Friday night.
This was the WA-bred gelding’s 19TH appearance at Gloucester Park in a 116-start career featuring wins at Pinjarra (two), Bunbury (two), Northam (two) and Williams, Wagin and Bridgetown.
He was bred by Ross Waddell and is raced by Waddell’s Pacing WA syndicate and trainer Sarah Suvaljko, and his ten wins and 19 placings have produced $81,166 in prizemoney.
Sarah Suvaljko was at the Narrogin meeting in Friday night, and Joey, one of her sons, brought Classnsmart to Gloucester Park. Another of her sons, Daniel, drove Classnsmart’s ten-year-old stablemate and half-brother Isaidboo into third place behind Mega Mach in a 2242m event at Narrogin at the gelding’s 178TH start in a race.
Other half-brothers to Classnsmart have been durable performers, with Atlastalone earning $201,147 from 19 wins and 28 placings from 158 starts, and Reminder Call racing 103 times for 12 wins and 28 placings for stakes of $91,832. Isaidboo has earned $110,235 from his 12 wins and 44 placings.
All those pacers are out of the Fake Left mare Classy And Smart, who raced 73 times for 14 wins, 21 placings and $104,828.
Joey Suvaljko said that Classnsmart had always found it difficult to get around the Gloucester Park track and was better suited to the bigger circuits at Bunbury and Pinjarra.
“Classnsmart is a big tough guy, not blessed with a lot of speed, but he keeps fighting on in his races,” he said.