A tree which crashed over during the latest storms almost caused serious injury to jockey Daniel Pitomac before the biggest ride of his career at Randwick. ‘’It was a bit of fright but we’re okay,.’’
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Pitomac will be aboard exciting three year old Cheeky in Saturday’s TAB Highway Handicap (1200m) his first shot at the big time. The galloper has drawn 15 and bookmakers are quoting the horse at 15-1 in early betting.
The storms hasn’t helped preparations for Cheeky’s Sydney debut but trainer Cecil Maxwell says the flighty gelding is good.
‘’We took him to Dubbo and gave him a swim,’’
The Wellington trained galloper has hit a purple patch. Three bush wins on end but it hasn’t always been smooth runnings.
‘’We’ve spent a lot of time with him and its taken time for him to mature.When he was young, he was cheeky, he would just walk around and bite ya,’’
The partnership between Daniel Pitomac and Cheeky has been remarkable both their share of trouble, both on the comeback trail.
‘’I was out for just a year, 3 operations on my shoulder, then a horse snapped his leg, broke my big toe in 3 places, did me hip.’’
Cheeky and Pitomac have developed a real mateship all is looking up for their big day at Royal Randwick.
‘’He is improving with every start.. We’re going to come against some harder company now, thankfully only in his own class, this is the time to testing the waters out.’’ Pitomac said.
