Warrnambool hobby trainer Charlotte Graesser added another Great Western Steeplechase to her record when Accounted Four scored an impressive victory in the time-honoured race at Coleraine on Sunday.
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Accounted Four, with Irish-born jumps jockey Chris McCarthy aboard, beat Jamieson by seven lengths with Lucques in third place in the $40,000 race.
The victory gave McCarthy his first Australian jumps win.
Graesser won the 2000 Great Western Steeplechase with Prince Allusa which was ridden by a young Ciaron Maher.
"It's great to win the Great Western again," Graesser told The Standard.
"I was pretty confident he would run well on the back of his last effort when he run third at Casterton. That run was full of merit. He's been running into form."
Graesser, who trained Raazaular to win the 2007 Warrnambool Grand Annual Steeplechase, is eyeing off a run in the $350,000 Grand National Steeplechase at Ballarat next Sunday, for Accounted Four's next start.
"I'm thinking of running him in the Grand National Steeplechase next Sunday," she said.
"We'll just wait and see how he pulls up after today's win. We could take the easier option and run him in the restricted steeplechase next Sunday but we'll decide later in the week.
"Accounted Four is fit, healthy, stays and jumps well. He also likes it wet.
"They are all great attributes for us to think about the Grand National but it looks looks like being a top field."
Graesser said she would consider running the 10-year-old in next year's Warrnambool Grand Annual Steeplechase if there was an early break in the weather.
"I would love to win another Grand Annual," she said.
"I would be hoping there's a wet April which would help out chances. We need a wet track for Accounted Four to show his best."
Accounted Four has won two steeplecase races.
