Echuca-trained Super Scholar, ridden by Mitchell Aitken, storms to victory in the $32,000 Master King Security Plate at Wangaratta today. Picture: Jay Town/Racing Photos
Lightly raced four-year-old mare Super Scholar has broken her maiden.
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Giving Echuca trainer Tayne Foster her first winner of the season – much to her relief.
The Super One bay had only had one previous start, running a third first up on her home track more than two lengths adrift of the winner.
But not the easiest horse to train, she went from the Echuca start in June to the paddock for the next 17 weeks.
Brought back in her first jump out was a fourth of six at Echuca before winning another one at Bendigo earlier this month.
A delighted Tayne Foster with her maiden winner Super Scholar after winning the $32,000 Master King Security Plate at Wangaratta today. Picture: Jay Town/Racing Photos
And this time around in the $32,000 Master King Security Plate over 1100m at Wangaratta she seemed a different horse.
With Mitchell Aitken aboard for the first time, Super Scholar showed she had paid attention in class, leaping out of the gate to be on speed from the get-go.
Well positioned throughout, as the field swung into the home straight, Aitken and Super Scholar ended up in the middle of the track but perfectly positioned for the run home.
Except at the 400m she seemed to be going up and down on the spot as a wall of horses started jockeying for the win.
And then, Foster said, she found a second wind and surged to the lead group, with Kinky Mistress sneaking through on the fence and looking the horse mostly likely.
Tayne Foster’s Super Scholar, ridden by Mitchell Aitken, coming down the outside to snatch victory in the $32,000 Master King Security Plate at Wangaratta today. Picture: Jay Town/Racing Photos
Until, literally, the last two strides and it was all over bar the shouting.
The only trick now for Foster is where to next?
“With the track getting a bit of rain I thought she would go well, and when I saw the scratchings this morning, I upgraded that from well to really well,” Foster explained.
“She’s not all that well behaved pre-race and can be a bit of a handful and has been lacking some maturity, which is why it has taken so long to get her going in the right direction,” she said.
“She is also a big, leggy horse and it has taken quite a while for the penny to drop.”
Foster said she was not sure where the mare would go next, but it won’t be Echuca on Melbourne Cup day.
With only two horses currently in work, and the other one not quite ready to go, she said she would look for something else in the next few weeks.
“It will also depend on what rating she gets after today, with a third and now a win from two starts – that will be part of the decision.”
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