Nominated this month was Gary Gifford part owner of three winners during May. These were Dark Image, Redeem Bounty and Loqueteux. Gary told this about his horses and his involvement in racing: Horse Details        Dark image (Dane Shadow-Brown Eyed Girl) is a lightly raced 3yo gelding, trained by Mark Minervini – 4 starts, 1 win, 2-2nds and 1-3rd breaking his maiden at Gawler on the 7th May. He certainly looks too be a young horse on the rise.      Redeem Bounty (Nadeem-Sparkling Bounty) 4yo gelding, trained by Richard Jolly – 21 starts, 5wins, 4 – 2nds and 3-3rds is rarely too far away from the placings, especially when racing at his preferred track Morphettville Parks, 1400m. His win was particularly pleasing as we had targeted that race. It’s always nice when a plan results in success as it did with his win on the 23rd May over 1400m at Morphettville Parks.     Loqueteux (Al Maher-Joyful Glow) 3 yo gelding, trained by Richard Jolly – 12 starts, 1 win, 3-2nds and 2-3rds. It’s fair to say he has taken a while to work out and I think Richard has found the key to his success with his 5 length maiden win on the 27th May at Gawler. He has been more than a little frustrating as he has started close to favourite at a lot of his starts and has taken 12 races to break his maiden status. Hopefully he will now transfer that success through to Saturday grade racing I have had an interest in racing since my early teenage years commencing with riding track work for Brian Searle at Cheltenham and getting into trouble with his son Garry around the Picnic racing circuit. I have had an interest in the odd Galloper over the years however over the past 5 years it has become a major interest for my wife (Julie) and myself. We currently have active interests in a number of horses and have been fortunate enough to enjoy a fair degree of success. As a side note both Dark Image and Loqueteux will be racing against each other today along with Julies horse Alcobro in race 7. (Note this was on June 20th) That would make a great Trifecta and make a lot of racegoers in the Diva Bar very happy. Unfortunately the trifecta was not forthcoming with Dark Image doing best running second. We wish Gary and Julie all the best with these horses and others in which they have shareholdings.

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