Talented sprinter Tiger Tees has certainly played his part in trainer Joe Pride's excellent start to the new season, notching his third win this month at Canterbury on Wednesday.Tiger Tees' impressive all-the-way win in the Hyland Race Colours Handicap (1100m) brought up Pride's eighth city success for August from just 22 runners.The Warwick Farm-based trainer took plenty of confidence out of Tiger Tees' victory over a strong midweek field, with the four-year-old powering to the line after takin
Talented sprinter Tiger Tees has certainly played his part in trainer Joe Pride's excellent start to the new season, notching his third win this month at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Tiger Tees' impressive all-the-way win in the Hyland Race Colours Handicap (1100m) brought up Pride's eighth city success for August from just 22 runners.
The Warwick Farm-based trainer took plenty of confidence out of Tiger Tees' victory over a strong midweek field, with the four-year-old powering to the line after taking up the running to defeat Shamus by 2-1/4 lengths with Exploitable Doubt another 1-3/4 lengths away third.
"It's been a fantastic start to the season and three of the wins have been from this little bloke, so he's doing his bit," Pride said.
"That's just what we wanted to see and there's always these good months and then there's some bad months, so you've got to make the most of it when it's going good."
Pride will raise the bar again with Tiger Tees next start and believes the gelding is stamping himself as a horse of the future.
"He's a pretty genuine style of horse and you've got to say he's the real deal," Pride said.
"Any doubts about him on a dry track or anything else have been cast aside today.
"I am going to give him a go in a Saturday race after this provided he pulls up well and he's exciting.
"He really is a baby still. He's the same age as Rain Affair now and I've got some really nice horses out of that age group. He looks like he's up there with some of them."
Tiger Tees has now won four of his five starts and Pride said the gelding's performance to win on Wednesday was his best effort yet.
"I think that was a really good race today with a lot of depth to it," he said.
While Pride notched his eighth city winner of the new season, Darley head trainer Peter Snowden's winning double took his team's season tally to nine to join Gai Waterhouse in the early premiership lead.
Snowden's first winner of the day came courtesy of former smart juvenile Secession who broke through for just his second victory, and his first since winning in stakes company on debut almost two years ago.
Later in the day three-year-old Trapunto, a half-brother to Warwick Stakes winner Pinwheel, led in a Darley stable trifecta when he defeated Tunes and Kukri in the TJ's Champagne Bar Handicap (1550m).