Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Champion reinsman Gary Hall Jnr notched his 50TH win for the season when he drove Im The Black Flash to victory in the Countryman Handicap at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
It gave Hall his third win for the night, and it completed a double for master trainer Gary Hall Snr, who had combined with his son to win the Cowden Pace with Mister Smartee 30 minutes earlier.
Im The Black Flash, the $1.20 favourite, began safely off the front line in the 2503m stand, and he dashed to the front after 550m and went on to set the pace and win easily from the early pacemaker The Wildcard ($23) and the 30m co-backmarker Ardens Horizon ($31).
“Im The Black Flash can lead in middle class races but when he gets up to the very top, he will have to be driven with a sit, like a sniper,” said Hall Jnr.
Im The Black Flash was placed once from two starts as a two-year-old in New Zealand, and his 18 starts in Western Australia have produced nine wins and four placings, taking his earnings to $149,246.