Heathcote chalks up 100 wins at Doomben

Wednesday 17 July 2013, 5:04pm

Robert Heathcote chalked up his 100th winner for the season at Doomben on Wednesday when St Andrews won the Panasales Handicap.

Heathcote has been poised to break the century of winners since July 3 when Princess Lyca won at Doomben and it took until the last race on Wednesday to achieve the milestone.

"I had the feeling it was more like a gorilla on my back getting the 100th win," Heathcote joked.

"But in all seriousness if you'd said to me at the start of the season you'll train 100 winners I would've said `no way' because I didn't think I had the stock."

St Andrews carries the same colours as Toorak Handicap winner Solzhenitsyn and bears a striking resemblance to his more-famous stablemate.

"The uncanny thing is he reminds me quite a lot of Solzhenitsyn and I don't think leading like that is the best way to ride him," Heathcote said.

"I've got a very healthy opinion of him and his future looks bright especially when he gets to a mile or even 2000 metres."

The Townsville Cup, on Saturday week, is on trainer Jeff Caught's wish-list for in-form stayer Moment To Remember after his win in the Qld Home Solutions Handicap (2220m).

Caught hails from Townsville where he was involved in harness racing before shifting to Cairns where he started training thoroughbreds.

"It would be great to win the Townsville Cup, and it's worth $100,000, but my only worry is whether his rating is high enough to get into it," Caught said.

"The truck is leaving on Monday morning and I suppose I could put him on it and take the punt that he'll make the field.

"If he doesn't there's a benchmark 74 race over the same trip as the Cup the same day which might be our back-up plan if we miss out on the Cup."

Caught showered apprentice Ashley Butler with praise after he lifted Moment To Remember ($3.80) to a half-head win from Dane Princes, the $3.50 favourite.

– AAP

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