By John Dunne (HRV)<\/p>\n
YOUNG teenage horsewoman Courtney Laker enjoyed a dream start to her career when she saluted with her first starter as a trainer, after Curly James ran his rivals off their legs in the Centre State Printing Pace at Tabcorp Park Melton last Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old Laker produced Curly James first up since April and the five-year-old didn\u2019t let her down leading all the way and holding off Vanquish Stride and Triple Eight in a slick mile rate of 1:51.3 for the 1720 metre journey.<\/p>\n
Curly James was previously trained by David Moran who partnered the son of A Rocknroll Dance to victory and Laker acknowledged Moran\u2019s role in her securing a training licence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked with David and he has helped me a lot, he\u2019s taught me so much since I\u2019ve been working with him and now I\u2019m 19 and wanted to get my trainers (licence) and he said that I could put Curly in my name,\u201d Laker said.<\/p>\n
Laker has spent her career to date working with Curly James.
\n\u201cMy nana and my father were lucky enough to buy him at the yearling sales and I\u2019ve been working him from the start,\u201d she said.
\nLaker said she was confident of a good first up showing from Curly James.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe always puts 100 per cent effort into his races and while his track work at home has been really good, his couple of trials haven\u2019t been the best as he\u2019s been very lazy and I\u2019ve been soft on him at the trials, so I knew when David got on him with a change of gear he\u2019d be hard to beat,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe looks good and feels good so we were extremely confident in him tonight if he found the front.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By John Dunne (HRV) YOUNG teenage horsewoman Courtney Laker enjoyed a dream start to her career when she saluted with her first starter as a trainer, after Curly James ran his rivals off their legs in the Centre State Printing Pace at Tabcorp Park Melton last Saturday night. The 19-year-old Laker produced Curly James first […]<\/p>\n