CROOK PERFORMANCES A TESTIMONY TO CHRIS' PATIENCE
“Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can – seldom in a woman, never in a man”.
Personally, I doubt the veracity of such a statement given that after 40 years of punting I’m still patiently waiting for my ship to come in, but our ‘patience’ award for the month definitely goes to Tasmanian trainer Chris Crook.
Chris is the trainer of Cardannic who turned the Brighton Hotel Maiden over 1100m at Hobart into a cakewalk yesterday (7 December), winning by close to five lengths.
Chris was given the filly to train after Dudley Clark (who sponsored a race later in the program), picked up the Bel Esprit yearling at the 2006 Gold Coast Magic Millions from the Eliza Park draft for $47,500.
Trialling the filly in December of that year, Cardannic won by three lengths and Chris reckoned she had a pretty handy type in her stable.
Trouble was, the filly kept on knocking herself at a full gallop and, when she ran last of 11 on debut in October last year, Chris tipped her out.
Having her second start almost 12 months to the day, the filly again knocked herself and finished eighth of 14.
Undeterred, Chris gave the filly two months before starting her again yesterday.
This time the only one’s knocking themselves were those who hadn’t backed the daughter of Bel Esprit at the juicy odds of $12.90 (word is that a certain Eliza Park staffer got himself an early Christmas bonus after chatting with Chris at Equitana!).
One of five Bel Esprit winners in the past week, Cardannic is a half sister to dual Group winner Cahuita and is out of a half sister to Group One winner Zaparri and the granddam of Magic Millions 3YO winner Tereschenko.
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