Lloyd bookends the day New

Date: 04-Sep-2025

PUNTERS shot straight for the most part at the first of two successive midweek metropolitan meetings to be held in Ipswich this September, but a bookend of wins for jockey Jaden Lloyd gave the bookies something to cheer about.

Lloyd teamed up with Bevan Laming to win the opening race on $7 chance Hurricane Rose, who took out the TAB Class 1 2200m Plate.

Lloyd rounded out his day with a clever ground-saving ride on the Rob Heathcote trained Better Be Nordy ($21), to arrive late in what turned out to be a blanket finish to the Ray White Ipswich Benchmark 68 (1200m) Handicap.

Better Be Nordy got the better of more fancied runners from both the Tony Gollan and David Vandyke stables.

Despite that defeat, those stables didn’t go home empty-handed.

Gollan saddled two of the more impressive winners on the day in Surprise Honey ($2.05 fav), already a Saturday metro winner and always in control here under Angela Jones, and the impressive Immediate ($1.60 fav), who broke her Maiden status by a big margin, giving Ben Thompson an armchair ride.

Vandyke brought several strong chances to the meeting, with Cherish The Day ($2.70 fav) doing the right thing for the stable by making it back-to-back Ipswich wins in the Seven Benchmark 65 (1700m) Handicap under Ryan Maloney.

The Matt Hoysted-trained Watertight ($2.50) in the Proven Thoroughbreds colours under Jag Guthmann-Chester was the fourth favourite to win on the seven race card.

The other winner on the day came when Stu Kendrick and Jace McMurray combined with Maximum Output ($4.80) to win the Barrier Reef Pools Benchmark 75 Handicap (800m).

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