Marina adds to tally
The well-related Marina has taken another winning trick for trainer and part-owner John Hickmott.
The Ocean Park mare’s latest success, the fourth of her career, came this week over 1100 metres at Gawler.
Marina is a half-sister to four winners with their dam Homeland Sheila.
She is a half-sister to the Gr.3 Blue Diamond Preview winner Northeast Sheila and the stakes winner Dashing Granada.
It’s also the family of the Gr.3 Star Kingdom Stakes winner and Group One performer Generalife.
The Corner with Garry Chittick
Well, I got a bit behind last week, with Friday slipping by without realising it; hence no Corner. I have said on too many occasions that negative messages are of no help to anyone, and yet there seems so often a reason to be concerned. Clearly, this week the well-constructed Guerin Report on the threatened downgrade of our Group 1 races demands our attention.
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Vale Ohope Wins, Ocean Park’s tough, kind and courageous daughter
Long before her Oaks double, Ohope Wins’ greatest victory belonged to the Waikato Stud staff and Matamata Veterinary Services vets who saved her as a desperately sick foal. Taken far too soon at Caulfield, her remarkable story is theirs too.
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