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\u201cIt wasn\u2019t what I expected \u2026 I thought the big horse (Alvin) might have got home over the top of the other one and I\u2019d let him have a run in The Droughtbreaker on Sunday,\u201d Fliedner said<\/p>\n
\u201cIn any case, we will take what we can get. We\u2019re pretty happy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a good money race \u2013 it will put a bit of food on the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis run at Seymour was enormous; he attacked the lead all the way and he just got tired the last little bit over 1300m.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought today would be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Swan Hill carnival marked the return to racing of Fliedner\u2019s former stable star Hi Stranger, who was retired in the spring of 2023.<\/p>\n
The Kilmore Cup and Echuca Cup winner had not raced in 583 days.<\/p>\n
After sitting outside the leader for much of the race, he faded late to beat one runner home over 1200m.<\/p>\n
Hi Stranger had been spending his retirement on the Riverina Downs property of one of his owners Mario Cesnick at Tarcutta in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was running in the mountains at Tarcutta and he was running with yearlings,\u201d Fliedner explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was just burning around the paddock and his owner said, \u2018if you don\u2019t put him back in work, I will\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we are going to give him a little try and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SWAN Hill continues to be a happy hunting ground for Bendigo trainer Shane Fliedner. The 2024 Country Achiever Award winner notched up a pair of winners with his small team at last week\u2019s three-day Swan Hill Cup Carnival. Fliedner was the first trainer to savour success at the carnival, saddling up the winner of the […]<\/p>\n