Hawkesbury Trainer Moving To Scone

Tuesday, 29 October 2019: Successful Hawkesbury trainer Scott Singleton is preparing to relocate his stable to the Hunter Valley's major racing and training centre at Scone.

"We're moving at the end of November," Singleton revealed.

"We have bought a property near the Hunter River only five minutes from the track at Scone where we will have stables.

"I'm sure it will all work out well."

Singleton has trained at Hawkesbury since he took out his licence in 2005. He prepared a personal best 34 winners in 2014-15 and has twice nearly topped the $1 milion mark in prizemoney with his runners earning $959,685 in 2016-17 and $939,585 in 2017-18.

His most important win to date has been G3 Hawkesbury Guineas in 2017 with the now retired Shazee Lee. She also won Hawkesbury's heat of the annual Provincial Championships over the same course in 2016.

Singleton won 18 races last season with his runners earning $615,650 prizemoney.

His stable has been through its own drought without a win since May but ended the run of outs when Stock Up won at Kembla Grange last Saturday.

"We've been a bit quiet but hopefully things will pick up and it will be a new start in Scone."

Another Hawkesbury trainer Mitch Newman has black type aspirations for his 3YO filly Piping Roller after her last start maiden win at Canberra.

The former successful jockey is excited by Piping Roller's potential after she recorded an impressive four lengths win at Canberra when having only her third start to give his small stable its first win for the season.

Newman trained three winners last season and he has since culled his team.

"I've got only half a dozen horses in work," he said. "We retired a few and I only bought one yearling last season and that slows you down a bi.

"But this filly is a bit exciting. There is still a lot of improvement in her.

"I expected her to win but she still had to go there and do it.

"She has pulled up okay and her progress will determine what we do with her next."

Newman retired from race riding in 2006 with a couple of G1 placings and wins in G3 and Listed races on his record.

"I rode a Group 3 winner and three Listed winners but never a Group 1 winner," he said.

"I'd love to train one and who knows if this filly can make the grade? Let's hope so."

Hawkesbury trainer Daniel Robinson also has a promising horse on his hands – and intends to look after him.

Karmazone, a lightly-raced four-year-old, made it two wins from as many starts with impressive performances at Orange and Canberra but Robinson is in no rush to chase a hat-trick with him.

"I've tipped him out for a break," Robinson said. "I'm a great believer in spelling a horse before they let you know they are ready for one."

Robinson and his wife Alexandra purchased Karmazone for $27,000 at the 2017 Magic Millions yearling sale in Adelaide with the intention of getting him ready to sell as a Ready 2 Race 2YO in Sydney.

But it didn't happen as the Robinsons took a shine to Karmazone and changed plans after he arrived at their Orchard Hills property where they operate a breaking-in and pre-training business under their DPR Breaking banner.

They gave him plenty of time in the paddock with the Eurozone gelding making his debut on September 23 when he won an Orange maiden over 1400m. Karmazone then started at Canberra and made easy work of jumping straight to a Class 1 (1400m).

"Karmazone pulled up brilliantly but by giving him a break now I'm hopeful he will come back even better and perhaps manage even longer trips," Robinson said.

Robinson rode over both the flat and jumps in his native England. He took out his NSW training licence at the beginning of last season.

He has now won four races – two with Karmazone and two with Dexluther, who gave him his initial success at Bathurst last December.

A maiden winner at a non-TAB meeting at Mudgee on October 26 was a special result for Hawkesbury training couple Mitchell and Desiree Kearney.

The Kearneys got a real "kick" out of winning at Mudgee with Heza Gentleman, ridden by their apprentice Zoe Connally, as he is the first foal from the Hard Spun mare Silk Spun, the mare provided Mitchell Kearney with his first victory when training in his own right at Hawkesbury in 2014.

He had been training for little more than a year and Silk Spun was the solitary horse in his stable at the time.

The Kearneys also have Silk Spun's second foal, a half-sister by Dane Shadow to Heza Gentleman.

They recently relocated to a bigger stable at Hawkesbury to cater for their increasing numbers.

"We moved to a bigger barn to enable us to expand," said Desiree Kearney. "We have 16 horses in work and that number will soon increase to 20."






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