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AARON’S LEAP INTO HISTORY
May 5, 2021 3:05 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
As jumps hero
Steve Pateman was being bumped around back in the field and
Clayton Douglas was on the ground with ripped britches after being bumped off, it was up to a first-timer to perfectly navigate the steeplechase course at
Warrnambool today.
Aaron Mitchell had never ridden the tricky course because he’d never ridden in a steeplechase, or a hurdle race, before today.
The 24-year-old’s impeccable display aboard the
Patrick Payne-trained
Can anyone recall a first-timer winning a jumps race at the Bool?
Five of the 12 starters either failed to finish the course or fell. Douglas (Ascot Red, lost rider) and
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