WARRIOR HEAD LASTS LONG ENOUGH AT GRAFTON

By Graham Potter | Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Well placed by the Tony and Maddysen Sears training partnership, Warrior Head made the most of the opportunity offered to him in a BM66 Handicap over 1610m at Grafton on October 21 to claim a third career victory from his fourteen starts.

Two of those wins have come in his last three outings in keeping with the improvement he has been showing in recent times.

Dylan Turner, who was the fifth different jockey to get the leg up on the four-year-old in his last five starts, shot Warrior Head, the $2.50 favourite, into the lead from the number one barrier draw at the break, and the gelding, who was racing beyond 1500m for the first time, maintained an advantage of between one and two lengths all the way to the home turn.

Warrior Head kicked on well in the first half of the straight, but inside the final 200m the $4.40 second favourite Teser, who had always been closest horse to Warrior Head tracking the Sers trained runner throughout the running, and the third favourite Steele Impact ($5) both began to close ground on the leader.

Warrior Head had to be hard ridden over the final 100m to thwart the late effort of the now fast finishing Teser, with the line coming just in time to allow Warrior Head to take the honours albeit by a diminishing 0.24 length margin.