Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Veteran square gaiter Nickys Son maintained his wonderfully consistent form when he came from a seemingly hopeless position to score an easy win in the $21,000 Never Trot Lodge Trot at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
The eight-year-old who started from the inside of the back line and at the attractive odds of $15.40, raced in ninth position, four back on the pegs and was hemmed in on the inside in second last place 400m from home.
However, Chris Lewis was able to get Nickys Son into the clear 100m later and the WA-bred gelding stormed home to hit the front at the 50m mark and win by a length from the pacemaker and $1.90 favourite Hold That Gold.
Lewis never gave up hope of obtaining a clear run in the final circuit. “Down the back I thought it would unfold,” he said. “It doesn’t always work out that way, but it looked like it was going to unfold just right with the horse in the one-out line dropping back, and once we got clear Nickys Son motored home and won comfortably.”
Nickys Son, who is trained by Michael Munro, now has raced 54 times for eleven wins, 19 placings and $89,321. Munro celebrated the victory at Bunbury on Saturday night when he trained and drove Queenie Daisy to win a 2100m event for three-year-old fillies.