Laurie Steels Saturday Success
- Sunday, 01 August 2010 04:17
Young up and coming Mornington trainer Matt Laurie celebrated his first Saturday metropolitan winner as The Big Steel took out the $70,000 Join MRC & Receive $2,000 Instant Value Handicap (1800m) at Caulfield.
The Big Steel ($26,$31) jumped well and was ridden positively by Ben Melham travelling in the first two throughout.
Melham made his move on the gelding before straightening and kicked clear to record a solid length and a quarter victory over the fast finishing Cheerful Jury ($51,$81) with King Cobweb ($14,$21) a further three quarters of a length away.
After five years of training Laurie was thrilled to taste Saturday success and was already looking to the future.
“Thats our first Saturday win so I’m really excited,” said Laurie.
“He begins well, relaxes and now he is really flattening out too.
“He is going to be an exciting horse, I expect him to get a trip and think we will have some really good times with him.”
Melham concurred with Laurie’s assessment of the three-year-old attributing the win to a terrific training performance.
“Matt has done a terrific job with him and had him in tremendous order,” said Melham.
“I have a really big opinion of this horse and he won very well in the end.”
The win takes Big Steel’s career earnings to almost $60,000 from just eight starts.
Photo by Fiona Tomlin.
