A STABLE QUINELLA FOR THE GERANS AT GATTON

By Graham Potter | Tuesday, January 23, 2024

The country track of Gatton provided the setting for the Corey and Kylie Geran training partnership to flex their muscles on January 23, and they duly saddled the quinella in the fourth race on the card, a Class 3 Handicap over 1100m with Seductive Spur and Tokyo Sins ... the only two runners they brought to the track on the day ... finishing first and second respectively.

Seductive Spur was winning for the second time in only three starts since transferring to the Geran stable. She had won first-up for Team Geran at Chinchilla in December in a BM50 contest and then finished second at Toowoomba in a BM65 Handicap ... before lining up this Gatton target in her sights.

In the race itself, Seductive Spur (a $3.70 second favourite) landed in the leading line under Justin Stanley while Tokyo Sins ($5) was slightly awkwardly away from a wider draw, yet, by the time the field had travelled 300m, the two Geran trained runners raced together holding down third and fourth spot, a couple of lengths off the two pacesetters.

Tokyo Sins, under Rob Thorburn, was allowed more rein than his stable companion in the sweep to the home turn and the mare improved her position to straighten in second place, but she was putting in that effort four wide.

Stanley, in the meantime, had been biding his time, saving ground along the inside ... and, on straightening, he was presented with a clear, uninterrupted run down the inside running all the way to the finish on Seductive Spur who, slowly but surely, then started to move into contention.

The very game Tokyo Sins had continued her run and taken the measure of Top Bird ($5) to lead halfway up the straight, but Seductive Spur now arrived on the scene and quickly headed his stable companion, who he then held to the line to win by 0.20 lengths as the two Geran trained runners fought out a very satisfying finish for the stable.

Both runners continued their consistent level of performance since joining the Geran yard.

Under the Geran’s, Seductive Spur has won twice and had one second place finish in three starts ... while Tokyo Sins has two wins, two second places and two third places behind her name since racing under the Geran banner ... two horses that are certainly paying their way!

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