Seamer and Marshall Both City Winners
- Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00
Top jockeys Scott Seamer and Simon Marshall both
rode comeback city winners at different east coast meetings this afternoon.Seamer teamed up with top Gold Coast based trainer Gerald Ryan to win at Eagle Farm today with Sky Royal in the Phar Lap Handicap (1800m).
It was the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup and Golden Slipper winning jockey's first city winner since returning to the saddle from injury.
Seamer had only just begun a riding stint in Hong Kong last season when he suffered crushed vertebrae.
He made his comeback to race riding but missed a place on Calaway Gal in the San Domenico Stakes in Sydney.
Meanwhile, Simon Marshall has continued his
fairytale comeback to the saddle with a winner at his first meeting in Sydney.
Just over a week ago Marshall rode a double at his first meeting back, at the Gold Coast in Queensland - the first for Gerald Ryan, the trainer Marshall had based himself with in preparation for the return.
The Jim Lee trained Prude (20/1) was Marshall's second and last ride at Canterbury today and the four-year-old mare did the right thing to win by a length and a half.
Marshall, who was famous for teaming up with such champion gallopers as Durbridge and Hareeba, is basing himself in Sydney over the coming spring, restricting himself to rides of atleast 56 kilograms.
PICS - Quentin Lang.