Victoria wins Origin series in Queensland

Sunday 10 December 2017, 6:13pm

Clare Lindop has steered Witness to victory at Caloundra to help Victoria to victory in the third Origin Jockeys Challenge.

The challenge, which featured teams from five states, New Zealand and an All Stars side, was run over three days, at Doomben on Friday and Saturday and Caloundra on Sunday.

Points were allocated on the basis of five for a win, three for second, two for third and one for an unplaced runner, scratching or no ride.

After the second day NSW (15) led by a point to New Zealand (14) with Victoria (13) in third spot.

However, Lindop did the right thing by punters and Victoria wining on Witness ($2) in the first heat on Sunday.

South Australia's Jamie Kah found the in the final 200m to win the second and final heat on Social Vampire ($3.60).

Victoria was able to pick up two extra points from the last heat which was enough to give them the win from NSW (20).

The final points Victoria (21), NSW (20), South Australia (18), Tasmania (18), New Zealand (18), All Stars (16) and Queensland (15).

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »