GIDGET GOES ALL THE WAY

By Graham Potter | Saturday, October 7, 2023

A starting price of $5 for a last start winner (albeit at Goondiwindi) proved to be generous odds for the Corey and Kylie Geran trained Gidget, who made it back-to-back wins when she saluted in a BM60 Handicap over 1200m at Dalby on October 7.

With Nozi Tomizawa in the saddle for the first time in Gidget’s nineteenth career start, the four-year-old daughter of Outreach did it at both ends.

She surged into an immediate lead, but she was only allowed a brief time to enjoy a clear lead before two rivals, Barrymore ($13) and Mountbattan ($17) joined her to her outside, applying pressure, but Gidget remained unfazed, holding the inside line and maintaining her lead as she brought the field to the home turn.

There was still no respite for the Geran trained runner on straightening, with a line of horses snapping at her heels in the first half of the straight, but Gidget kicked on bravely, to the extent that she had shaken off all challenges by the 100m mark, expect that of Charged (the $4.20 second favourite), who kept coming at the long-time leader.

There was simply no room for any let-up on the part of Gidget, but the Geran runners wasn’t about to give anything away and she kept her eye firmly on the task at hand to hold Charged by a 0.75 length margin.

This was Gidget’s second successive win and the second time she has posted back-to-back wins in her career.
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The disappointment of the race won by Gidget was the Pat Webster trained Unassailable, the $2.20 favourite who finished second last, but Webster did stymy the Geran Training partnerships attempt to win the Country Cup’s Challenge qualifier later in the day with another favourite Office Jim, who kept the two Geran runners, Sammy and Vinasta, back in second and third place, beaten 0.75 lengths and 1.25 lengths respectively.

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