Four winners for leading WA trainers

Leading metropolitan co-trainers Grey and Skye Bond enjoyed a prolific evening at the Albany Harness Racing Club, notching four winners on the nine-race card at Harold Reid Paceway last Saturday night.

The co-trainers, who lead the State premiership in 2016-17, have been in red-hot form since returning to Albany this month as they scored a double on January 21 and added four more victories to their tally at the weekend.

Exciting three-year-old Hit It Rich kicked off their quartet of winners last Saturday, leading all the way to win the Vic Green Memorial 3YO Pace (1828m).

Driven by Ryan Warwick, Hit It Rich jumped a $1.30 favourite and held off Bad Boy Axel by 4.3m on the line to win her second race from three starts.

Short-priced favourite Shes Artful ($.190 chance) won the eighth race of her career later in the evening after junior driver Mitchell Miller guided the four-year-old home.

The Art Major mare went forward from the second line and sat outside the leader before powering home to defeat Crimson Floyd by 9.5m in the Harold Reid Memorial Pace (1828m).

Talented pacer Bungalow Bill ($1.40) was the third leg of the Bond quartet when he demolished his rivals in the Jock Whitelaw Memorial Pace (1828m), winning by 11.8 with Warwick in the cart.

Warwick and the Bond stable then teamed up in the Peter Thompson Conditioned Handicap Pace (2643m) as Mcclinchie prevailed by 2.2m holding off a fast-finishing Hez The Jazz Man.

Track The Navajo won her second race in Albany this season, driven superbly by Trent Wheeler in the George Hodgson Memorial Mares Pace (2258m).

The $2 favourite trained by Amy Stone stormed home on the final lap to beat Dont Be Teasing Me by a short half head.

The Bond partnership sits second in the AHRC trainers’ premiership with 31 points behind leader Nathan Turvey (36 points).

Last season’s leading trainer Courtney Burch made a return to Albany with Hez A Jazz Man her best result running second.

Albany’s next meeting is tomorrow night with a seven-race card starting at 6.35pm.