Back with a bang and raring to go

IN an outstanding training performance, Billingshurst racehorse trainer Luke Dace has hit form with a vengeance this month, sending out three winners in four runs by January 18.
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Jan 2009, 13:52 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:06 BST

And if the final race of the day at a recent Great Leighs meeting had not been cancelled because of fog, it would have been a full house of four wins.

Luke, who trains from Copped Hall Farm, between Billingshurst and Five Oaks, ended a lean spell of five months without a winner when American Spin spreadeagled the field and came home in style in the William Hill Auction Maiden Stakes at Kempton early this month.

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The five-year-old had not raced since October 2006 when he finished third at Newmarket on his racing debut as a juvenile, then trained by Brian Meehan.

"He was injured after that race, doing a tendon, and then did the other leg. He went to another trainer who couldn't get him fit enough to go back on the track. He came to me last April and I have had to take things gently with him," said Luke.

He has a fine reputation for getting injured horses back on the track and educating quirky horses '“ and patience paid off with American Spin, who romped home at 7-2 and has come out of the race sound.

For full feature about this in-form trainer, and the chance to buy a share in winning horses, see Sussex Horse World, West Sussex Gazette, January 28

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