Adelaide trainer aims for career-best season on home track

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Morphettville-based trainer Paula Trenwith is poised to extend her most successful season to date, with as many as four runners slated for her home track.

Trenwith currently has a stable of just six horses in training at Morphettville, meaning a potential two-thirds of her team could compete on Saturday.

Remarkably, six of Trenwith’s eight victories this season have been at metropolitan venues, marking her most significant haul since records commenced on the Racing and Sports database.

While Trenwith has previously trained 12 winners in a single season on two occasions, those successes were predominantly on the country circuit with a few provincial placings.

Savatoff, entered in the Sportsbet Get On Extra Handicap (2500m), will be vying for his third city win of the current term.

The gelding achieved a victory at Morphettville Parks last August, with his most recent triumph being in the Onkaparinga Cup (2150m) at Oakbank back in April.

Savatoff is set to make his ninth start of a campaign that commenced in February, and Trenwith indicated that he will continue racing while the tracks remain wet.

“He really does like the wet tracks, so he’s in at the right time of the year,” Trenwith stated. “When you look at him, there’s still plenty of him. He holds his condition really well in the stable and he’s always really enthusiastic about his work. I don’t work him too hard on the track, or gallop him too much, so hopefully he can be in for a good winter campaign. I took to him Casterton last time chasing a wet track and I had him nominated for the 2500-metre race at Flemington on Saturday as well, but that was a very strong race. If it dries up here, I would be more than happy to go over the border with him, especially if the tracks remain wet.”

Newcomer Aysgarth is set to compete in the Polywave – your partners in poly Handicap (1100m).

A former charge of the Anthony and Sam Freedman stable, Aysgarth is a galloper bred in the UK. He finished second in his debut run for Trenwith on June 6.

“Sometimes with these horses that come from England, they can take a long time to acclimatise,” Trenwith explained. “His feet were terrible when I got him. I tried to get him going, but I couldn’t get him sound, so I tipped him out and he had the whole summer out. His feet are fantastic now. I’ve got a wonderful farrier. He needed that time to acclimatise, and where he went, it was a hot summer, and if he didn’t get used to Australia after that, he never would. He’s a portly little thing and he was underdone going into his last start, so he’s definitely got improvement in him.”

Similar to Savatoff, Ginger Sinner will be aiming for his third win of the season in the SAJC Membership Available June 27 Handicap (1200m).

“He likes a wet track and is well into his campaign and is lovely and fit,” Trenwith commented.

A potential start for Babayka in the Sportsbet Race Replays Handicap (1050m) is uncertain due to the gelding drawing barrier 14 in a 15-horse field.

“He needs a good draw to show his best,” Trenwith concluded.

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