Randy Goulding: Arduous work is beginning to repay for apprentice jockey Fraser Aebly

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Arduous work is beginning to repay for apprentice jockey Fraser Aebly who’s at present sitting in fourth place within the jockey standings at Hastings Racecourse.

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Contemplating he’s the one apprentice rider at Hastings, he’s a cinch to be the main apprentice.

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He’s additionally the one apprentice jockey using at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, the place he rides Monday by way of Wednesday.

Logically sufficient, he would be the first rider to be the main apprentice at each tracks in the identical yr.

Aebly, 19, grew up in Grande Prairie, Alta., the place he first began getting on horses on his dad and mom’ farm. He got here to Hastings final yr to gallop horses for coach Steve Henson earlier than starting his using profession. He ended up successful three races from 23 begins at Hastings in 2022 and to date has received 13 this yr.

By way of Tuesday, he has 5 wins at Assiniboia. The explanation for the lengthy commute is he simply desires to get higher at his craft.

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“I need to journey loads of horses,” mentioned Aebly. “The extra I can journey the extra I can be taught. It’s powerful using two days per week right here so when the chance got here up I took it.”

Assiniboia Downs is bigger in circumference than Hastings and Aebly says he has to regulate his technique when using there.

“They’re very totally different racetracks and also you simply have to concentrate on it,” he mentioned. “Place is all the things at Hastings and racing is little tighter than on the seven-eighths-of-a-mile observe at Assiniboia.”

Henson likes the best way Aebly is progressing as a rider.

“His future is vivid,” mentioned Henson. “He has a ardour for the enterprise and day by day he learns one thing new. Going to Manitoba has been an excellent factor for him and you may see the polish in him now. He’s additionally well mannered and only a nice child.”

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Aebly at present doesn’t have any plans when the racing season ends, however, with a gazillion frequent flyers’ miles, he could have loads of choices.

CLOCKER’S CORNER RETURNS

The favored Clocker’s Nook is again Sunday. It begins at 8:30 a.m. with racing analyst Mike Heads internet hosting.

Free pastries and low is served in addition to a contest and giveaways. There’s a slight change with the occasion being held on the Trackside Patio for the primary time. It’s positioned subsequent to the Winner’s Circle.

A few of my youthful pals think about the tarmac at Hastings “the most effective patio within the metropolis,” and will probably be open for enterprise the following 4 Friday nights.

Put up time for the primary of seven races is 7 p.m.

FRIDAY PICKS

RACE 2: Navy Cross took a pleasant step ahead in his final begin as a juvenile and the three-year-old son of Cross Site visitors has been working like he’s prepared to fireside a giant shot coming off the bench for coach John Morrison.

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In accordance with Each day Racing Type’s Formulator, since 2019 Morrison has a 30-per-cent strike charge with horses getting back from a layoff of 180 days or extra.

With simply three begins, Navy Cross ought to have some upside and may very well be powerful to run down if he breaks alertly from the rail with jockey Kerron Khelawan up.

RACE 6: House wasn’t overly spectacular working a half-mile with Brian Boodramsingh aboard Sunday, however coach Mel Snow doesn’t normally flip his horses unfastened within the mornings.

If House runs in addition to he did in his final two begins at Churchill Downs and at Indiana Horseshoe, he must be a handful on this $50,000 maiden elective claimer.

Randy Goulding has been handicapping horses and writing for The Racing Type at Hastings Racecourse for greater than 30 years. His column will run weekly all through the horse-racing season.

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