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Pennant Tennis Grade 1 returns to the Peninsula: Tennis Victoria Pennant is Australia’s largest inter-club competition and marks its 136th consecutive year in 2019. This year the Mornington Peninsula will be fielding a Pennant Men’s Grade 1 Team representing Ranelagh Club for the first time in close to 20 years. Daniel Byrnes, head coach at Ranelagh Club, will be the number one player. Commencing 27 April and every second Saturday at Ranelagh Club you will see the best of Victorian tennis players. All welcome to watch and support the Mornington Peninsula tennis team.
In the swing of things: Bryan Raine was named men’s champion, Ilsa Troy ladies champion and Janet King runner up after Mt Martha Golf Club’s fourth and final round of Match Play, Saturday 2 March. Picture: Supplied
Freedman unveils talented two-year-olds By Ben Triandafillou JUST one month after claiming the $1.5 million Group One Blue Diamond Stakes with Lyre, Pinecliffbased trainer Anthony Freedman has unveiled yet another two talented two-year-old’s. Coming off a Mornington jump out on Wednesday 13 March, the Freedman-trained youngsters Chenier and Super Seth, who respectively finished first and second in their heat, have come out and scorched the track at their debuts. Chenier, one of five Godolphin owned two-year-old’s that Freedman trains, was heavily supported on debut at Sandown the following Wednesday 20 March and duly saluted with a dominant five-and-half length win. Super Seth then reinforced their potential with a bullish six length victory at Ballarat on Sunday 24 March. Trainer Anthony Freedman was on hand at Chenier’s debut victory at Sandown and said his colt looks to have very good potential. “He’s come very quickly to hand, he’s only had seven weeks’ work, normally you’d give them another trial (before racing) but he seems to have very good ability and great natural fitness,” Freedman said. “This race came up a bit quick, but
Talented 2YO: The Anthony Freedmantrained two-year-old Chenier wins on debut at Sandown. Picture: Supplied
it fitted in well with what we’ve got in mind.” Freedman said Chenier will run at Sandown Hillside on Wednesday 10 April in a $50,000 two-year-old race over 1400 metres before travelling to Sydney for the $500,000 Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Rand-
wick, 10 days later. Freedman was also suggesting that the colt could potentially be a Derby candidate in the Spring. “It’s not unrealistic to think that,” he said. “He’s a very, very promising horse so if he keeps going the right way,
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and his temperament suggests he will, then he could get to a good level.” Chenier is bred to get over ground, by Medaglia d’Oro, out of Zabeel mare Zydeco, which Freedman also trained. While racing under Sheikh Mohammed’s ‘Darley’ banner, Zydeco won
the 2012 Group 2 Wakeful Stakes. She also achieved minor placings in the Thousand Guineas (1600m) and VRC Oaks (2500m) at Group 1 level that spring. Super Seth’s victory at Ballarat was just as dominant and left Freedman’s racing manager, Brad Taylor, just as excited for the future. “Chenier franked the form on Wednesday pretty impressively, and it’s good to see this guy do it as well,” he said. “He’s still pretty green but it was nice to see him really flatten out and put them away nicely.” The win provided Freedman with his seventh two-year-old winner from his 14 starters this season. It also continued the stables successful run for racehorse owner and breeder, Jonathan Munz. “We’re thankful for Jonathon for providing us with these lovely horses,” Taylor said. “We’ve got a number of nice horses for him and it’s good to get this result for him.”
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