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Australia Day Races at Warwick Farm Horses Tony McMahon Premium Content Subscriber only Parochial Rockhampton racing followers will have to wait until next Wednesday for Marway’s much-awaited next Sydney start after he was scratched from his engagement at Canterbury Park on Friday night. Marway, the 2019 Rockhampton Jockey Club Horse of the Year, was to run in a heat of the Sprint Challenge but because of drawing barrier 14 he was scratched from the race. Instead, Marway is likely to start on the Randwick Kensington track next Wednesday. Randwick trainer Mark Newnham has nominated Marway for the $50K BM 72 Handicap (1000m) and the sprinter has been handicapped on 60.5kg. ....
Jockey Matthew McGillivray, owner-trainer Mary Hassam and Phill Gattenby with Daunting Queen. Horses Tony McMahon Premium Content The rapport that coexists between horse and rider has been documented down through time. It was on display at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse last Friday when a little bay thoroughbred mare and her sprightly trainer greeted each other in the winners’ stall. There was the six-year-old mare Daunting Queen a model of consistency and her 72-year-old trainer Mary Hassam basking, albeit humbly in the sense of achievement a race win evokes. Mary, of slender build and looking as fit as a fiddle would have fooled me if she divulged being 10 years younger. ....