The Spackman stable has plenty of young ones in training and some older ones coming back in to work over the next few weeks. Just Google Me has taken out the Southern District Racing Association’s best 2 year old award after some impressive wins and placings last year. Now in the 3 year old category, it is hoped that Just Google Me may end up even higher in the search engine list.
The Times caught up with former Harden man and Wagga based Trainer Scott Spackman to yarn about Snake Gully Cup and Dolly who put another notch in the expert horseman’s belt.
“We had one winner at Gundagai and then went from the penthouse to the outhouse.
“Both days there are very hard and you have to draw gates. If you don’t draw gates you are in trouble.
“I wasn’t disappointed but I was disappointed with a couple of the runs on the Saturday. I thought they would be a lot more competitive than what they were, but they weren’t and that’s life.
“It’s just onwards and upwards and we will keep going forward.
“Just at the moment we will probably go to Wagga on the 30th. We have put a lot of horses back out and we are educating a lot of babies. We are just in and out at the moment with babies.
“It’s just where we are at as a stable for the moment.
“Notes (who placed second in the Harden Picnic Cup) came back into work on the weekend. He’ll fly the flag for a bit and Megaphone Miss and Dolly.
“Just Google Me has come back into work as well and he’s a nice little horse and he got SDRA two year old of the year.
“That’s a big wrap for a little horse.
“He won a two year old race and a class 1 at Albury and ran third in the Jack Maher Classic. He’s only had four starts and has performed very strongly for a two year old.
“He’s three now. We own him and the Country Championships would be our ideal situation, but it doesn’t mean we will be going. We will just have a look at things and go from there.
“Wagga racing is very competitive, very hard. It’s hard everywhere you go with the likes of Gai Waterhouse going to Queanbeyan. She’s a hard gig, but you have to keep poking along.
“Just Google Me is a cheeky little bugger. He has a will to win and he’s a strong little individual.
“I never thought he’d make a two year old as he’s big and open in the knees.
“His mother “Adapt To Survive” was blind. She went to Queensland to be sold and came back blind.
“She’s a beautiful mare by Written Tycoon and she has been able to look after her foals.
The horse racing game isn’t always an easy one with Spackman enduring the loss of two of her foals.
“We have another one with her by Denman and just got her in foal to Acrobat.
“We lost two out of her, but we will keep soldiering on.