Nothing could be more satisfying for Dynamic Syndications to record our 300th race win in what was exactly 2 days short of our 7 year anniversary since our first race winner. The champagne corks were popped to celebrate this wonderful milestone.
We made an EXCELLENT POINT with our aptly named racehorse EXCELLENT POINT. What has turned out to be an incredible fact, Darren Smith also had trained EXCELLENT POINT to be our 200th race win on the 23rd February 2011.
Excellent Point winning at Newcastle on Saturday 20/10/12
EXCELLENT POINT (Exceed & Excel / Sharp Awakening) recorded a gutsy first up win over an unsuitable 900m trip but class shone through in this strong victory, in what was a
CLASS RECORD time of 51.36, sizzling home the last 600m in 33.16 secs. The margin was a Long Neck x Long Neck.
Past The Post - Excellent Point defeated stablemate Melburg
WATCH THE VIDEO OF EXCELLENT POINT'S VICTORY HERE
Congratulations to our Dynamic Team of owners who race our honest galloper:
Dynamic Synd Excellent Point Synd, P Bonilla, P Leeper, J Ward, Indelible Synd, A Boyd, Craigphil Synd, Brad & Scott Synd
In winning race 1 at Newcastle, the Diggers @ Newcastle Bm 70 over the 900m, the Darren Smith trained horse was piloted to perfection by Matthew Palmer who continues to ride Dynamic horses superbly.
Instructed to ride EXCELLENT POINT just behind the leading division and not to present into the running line before the 300m mark, Matthew rode him perfectly. A slight tremor of anxiety went through the owners when behind the barriers, the horse was found to have shifted a plate on the way there and had to be re-shod. However that was completed without issue and the field lined up in their gates.
Our speed map had this event with 4 natural leaders so we anticipated it would be run very hard. We elected to take a sit just behind the speed and under the 59.0 kgs wait as long as possible before sprinting. The race panned out as anticipated with favourite and track specialist Melburg with 55.0kgs after a claim from barrier 1, leading on the fence with top weight Floral Insight sitting at it's girth and the Waterhouse runner Sefra 54.0kgs, sitting on pace 3 deep. We wanted to track this line of 3 over the first 600m and then, at the final 300m present to the outside of these runners and hit the line. We anticipated that by doing this, we would get home hard in the concluding stages.
It's very satisfying when plans and race tactics come off.
Congratulations to Darren Smith who turned our horse out in great order.
EXCELLENT POINT is an absolute dry track horse but has had the disappointing knack of breaking droughts when he has raced.
This was his 22nd race start for 4 wins, 4 seconds, 3 thirds. Prizemoney $78,150.
12 starts have been on Dead, Slow and Heavy tracks for 0 wins, 2 second, 2 thirds.
Yet he's had 10 runs on Good tracks for 4 wins, 2 seconds.
He was back in work a few months ago and found one of the wettest periods in the Hunter region in many years and Darren was battling to get him fit on bottomless training tracks. He had 2 runs back in but was retaining his heavy condition as Darren simply could not get the work into him.
So we stopped with him at the start of August with the view of returning to the track at this time of year, heading into Summer and hopefully, dry tracks.
We sent him to Wild Oaks pre training operation where we put him in a paddock of a day, stabled at night and put him on the water walker each morning for a month. This was a masterstroke as he enjoyed the break, built up excellent foundation fitness and tightened up nicely before returning to Darren Smith's stables.
EXCELLENT POINT has always shown he is up to winning Saturday class metropolitan races but bad luck and racing’s weather gods have frowned upon him. Now he has come back in wonderful order, we are very upbeat about the preparation ahead. He will be much better suited at 1200m - 1400m.
Everybody at Dynamic Syndications is delighted that it was Darren Smith who recorded our 300th victory. Darren is a great team member and a valuable part of our Dynamic Syndications Success.
Darren trained our 100th win SALTATOR and our 200th win with EXCELLENT POINT so it was poetic he should train our 300th win ! To think he was able to do it again with EXCELLENT POINT is beyond belief.
Excellent Point under saddle