RED WAVE WASHES HIS OPPOSITION AWAY

By Graham Potter | Saturday, November 5, 2022

A week after Yellow Brick had done the stable proud at Eagle Farm, the Tony and Maddysen Sears training partnership were at it again on the Metropolitan scene with another stable favourite Red Wave ($4.40) getting the job done when outgunning the $5 chance Hillcrest Avenue to take out a BM75 Handicap over 2200m at Doomben on November 5 to claim a second successive win.

That’s four starts in a row now in which Red Wave has finished in the first three places.

Ben Thompson, who has been a contributing factor in the Sears’s latest run of results, settled Red Wave in fourth …then third spot, three lengths off the lead as the field left the home straight for the first time.

Red Wave was then just two lengths back going down the back stretch … perfectly positioned and racing at a comfortable gallop.

There was no movement from Thompson until the field approached the home turn, at which stage Thompson got busy, pushing Red Wave through on the inside to get into second place before switching around the heels of the leader, Applications, so that he could be ready to strike on straightening.

And strike he did … with Red Wave surging into a narrow lead early in the straight, but Applications (the $3.50 favourite) still had some fight left in him at that stage … and there were also four horses to Red Wave’s outside all trying to quicken into contention, so, for a moment there, the battle was well and truly on.

Red Wave’s gameness has never ever been in question though and he gave another rousing example of his unfailing commitment to the cause by holding a wall of challenges at bay all of the way down the home straight to score by 0.30 lengths from Hillcrest Avenue who was making up ground late.

It was a great result for the ever-consistent four-year-old whose race record now reads four wins and nine minor placings from twenty-one starts with $293 550 banked in prize-money.

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