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Christmas Races

My Name Is Chloe Lowe

Dec 16, 2024

TOOWOOMBA apprentice Chloe Lowe brought her incredible strike-rate over the border on Saturday with a winning double at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Christmas twilight races.

Lowe, 22, has ridden 48 winners despite only hitting the racetrack in March this year, and currently leads the Queensland country jockeys’ premiership with 28 wins.

Her Moree double on ultra-impressive My Name Is and Minimal comes on the back of a winning double at Texas the week before.

The Pat Webster-trained My Name Is, is part-owned by a big group from Moree, including David Watts, Austin, Robert and Murray Finlayson, Steve Haddad, Andrew Pitman, Alistair Jones, David Winter, John Greer, James Keen, Dan Reardon, Lenny McMaster and Pat Lane in partnership with Danny Bourke and Luke Berger.

The speedy gelding strolled home to win the 950m Agri-Storage and Logistics Grainspace Class 2 Plate by a widening two lengths.

My Name Is, backed from even-money into $1.85, clicked up a gear in the straight to easily beat Brett Cavanough’s Water Lad ($8) and Daniel Stanley’s Loving Angel ($21).

Saturday’s win was a quick follow-up to Skyforger’s demolition job of the  Country Cups Challenge Final at Doomben two weeks ago.

Skyforger, owned by the same syndicate, backed up on Saturday at Eagle Farm with a narrow second to Queen Air in the BRC Membership Plus BM-78 Handicap.

Apprentice Chloe Lowe brings My Name Is back to scale after its impressive win at Moree on Saturday.

“Austin is the main man, and he and Lenny put the syndicate together,” David Watts said.

“The fantastic thing about it all, is a lot of the members have never been involved in something like this.

“Even more fantastic is the fact this was Lenny McMaster’s first winner at Moree as an owner after being involved in the game for more than 40 years,” Watts said.

Minimal ($3.10fav) was just as impressive, winning the 1200m Moree Ag Supplies and Steel BM-50 Handicap by nearly six lengths from Wheredacrawdadsing ($8) and Sippity Sip ($5).

Meanwhile, heavyweight hoop Kody Nestor handed Inverell trainer Jo Methven a better day when Better Tomorrow won the 1600m Haddad’s Transport Class 1-Maiden Plate.

Better Tomorrow ($4.80) slotted in third spot early before sliding back to midfield approaching the 800m marker.

Nestor angled the gelding around the leaders on the home corner and wore away in the straight to win by a half-length from Nikki Pollock’s Prefer To Wink ($19) and early leader A Tent Hut ($2.05fav).

“It was an easy win, and the owners were confident,” Nestor said.

“I didn’t know a lot about the horse before the race and he got a nice run early, but the horse I was following was going nowhere.

“There’s a little bit of improvement in him, and he’ll go on and win another one without any doubt,” he said.

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