You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy.
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Winslow trainer Ciaron Maher, who spends more time at his new Caulfield base than home in the south-west, was a happy man after galloper Heavy yesterday gave him his first winner at this year’s carnival with victory in the benchmark 64 handicap over 1700m. “It’s great to get on the board,” Maher said. “I was starting to wonder.”
Heavy was Maher’s ninth runner at the carnival, where he’d had three second placings.
He was delighted the three-year-old gelding had run down the $4.80 favourite Landslide, giving a big group of owners, many local, a thrill at their home carnival. “It’s good to get a win for Colin McKenna and Janice, Geoff and Lyn McLaren,” Maher said.
“It’s always good to win at the carnival. It’s just getting a little bit harder.”
Heavy ($12) will progress through his grades having won by three-quarters of a length from the Henry Dwyer-trained Landslide, with Darren Weir’s Unfurl ($7.50) a further long neck away in third.