TRAUTMAN AND LITTLE SPARK BOTH WIN IN THEIR FIRST STARTS AFTER RELOCATING TO THE GERAN STABLE

By Graham Potter | Saturday, August 10, 2024

August 10 provided a good day out for the Corey and Kylie Geran stable as they completed a home track double Trautman and Little Spark saluting within an hour of each other at the Toowoomba meeting.

Trautman (a $3.80 joint favourite) was the first to strike, taking out a Maiden Handicap over 1300m.

The lightly raced four-year-old son of Hellbent was on debut for the Geran stable and having his first start in just under five months after transferring from trainer Brett Cavanagh for whom Trautman had six starts with the best result there being a second place finish at Ballina back in January.

Trautman gave his rivals start early when going back to race in eighth place, some seven lengths off the leader as the field went down the back straight.

Little changed in the first half of the sweep to the home turn but, on straightening, Trautman had improved up to fourth place, racing four wide with still four lengths to make up on the other $3.80 main fancy, Explosive Dragon, who had kicked away at the head of affairs at the stage,.

When Explosive Dragon was unable to sustain his run, Trautman, with jockey Kark Zechner hard at work in the saddle, was the first to go past Explosive Dragon, but Geraldine’s Wish ($4) was now also steaming down the centre of the track and these two runners now became locked in a private battle over the final 150m ... a battle which went the way of Trautman by half-a-length at the line, as he completed an important first career victory.
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Two races later, Little Spark completed the Geran stable double with Landan Sykes in the saddle ... and there were plenty of similarities between the two stable winners.

Like Trautman, Little Spark is a lightly raced four-year-old. Like Trautman, Little Spark raced several times for another stable (that of Ben, Will and J D Hayes) before coming out and winning in her first start for the Geran stable by the same margin (0.50 lengths) by which Trautman had saluted.

Again, like Trautman, Little Spark had to be strong all the way to the line to gain the result which, like Trautman, was the first win of her career.

Sykes got Little Spart away well from a wide draw before settling the Geran trained runner in third, then fourth sport, sitting on the back of the speed.

That was still the situation on the point of the home turn where Little Spark cornered three wide ... and then drifted out slightly further before producing a solid, sustained effort down the centre of the track

The leader Chief By ($6.50) was the target that Little Spark had to shoot down and that took some conviction but, by the 100m mark, Little Spark had the measure of Chief By and she continued to kick on all the way to the line to claim victory.

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