ON HOLD SALUTES AGAIN

By Graham Potter | Saturday, May 11, 2024

You can make that two wins from two starts for On Hold since joining the Corey and Kylie Geran stable now, after the daughter of Headwater won for the second time in a eight days at Toowoomba, taking out a Class 3 Plate over 1000m on May 11 when backing up from her BM62 Handicap win at the same track over 870m on May 4.

On Hold ($3.50) had to work harder for victory this time but prevailed under Karl Zechner to beat off the game challenge of the $3.10 race favourite Upstart Legend by 0.80 lengths.

The first part of the race was a carbon copy of On Hold’s previous win ... jumping smartly from a wide great, showing good gate-speed to stretch out into the lead with the minimum of fuss.

Zechner was then able to dictate from the front and On Hold held a neat length lead over Upstart Legend and these two runners basically held station for the whole duration of the race ... Upstart Legend wasn’t going away, but he was also not making any real inroads into On Hold’s lead, while On Hold continued to maintain a strong gallop to the line with the win always looking to be safely in her keeping.

That’s a $25 000 return on investment with On Hold in a week for GG Racing, for whom On Hold is already well and truly proving her worth. Throw in the teams win with Jenni Moreese at Gatton inbetween On Hold’s double success and that is three wins from three runners for the relatively newly formed GG Racing over the last eight days.

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