Tracy Reay reached a milestone on Monday when she trained her 100th winner in Posseidon.
Making her debut to training during the 1999/2000 season, Reay was destined to be involved, with her parents training a small team when she was a child.
“Les Marriot was my godfather and I used to help dad, I was track working when I was quite young and I also rode them for show work, and all of that stuff, then I worked with gallopers,
“Then I just decided that I liked the standardbreds better.” Reay said.
At last year’s Harness Award event, Reay took out the 2021 Trotter of the Year with her horse Tenno Sho, just weeks after losing the promising square gaiter in a track incident. Tenno Sho took out the $30,000 Gr2 Wake Up With Sunrise on Seven Trotter Sprint in March 2021. The win was a career highlight for Reay, who had a special affiliation with the then 8-year-old.
“Well, it meant a lot because he wasn’t trotting that good when we got him and when he come right then he just started to trot and was just getting better and better, but it was his personality as well, he was just real special.”
It was fitting that Reay’s milestone win was brought up in a trotters’ event, with the Pinjarra based trainer confirming that both horses shares similar qualities.
“I think it’s the same sort of thing, because he’s got that many problems and we’ve managed to straighten, hopefully, touch wood, straighten most of them out.”
“So, if he keeps going and we can keep on top of everything, and it keeps going like it is, he should do well I Think.”
Reay currently has 14 in work, including Baltic Ace NZ who races this Friday night at Gloucester Park in the DTS Web – www.dtswa.com.au Standing start pace over the 2503m, and although it’s the 7-year-olds first start in a stand, his jump-out trial earlier in the month at Pinjarra showed that the gelding was more than capable of stepping well from the stand.
Eloquent Mach has recently entered her stables and is around three weeks into his preparation. The $200,000 earner hasn’t been seen on the race track since May 2021 due to feet issues and a leg injury.
With the 100 training wins milestone now reached, Reay hopes to one day claim a Trotters Cup, but did make mention that any win will do.
Ashleigh Paikos