By Neil Evans
A six-year-old mare who once promised so much is set to break a near 18-month winning drought at Tuesday’s Nowra meeting.
Temoin Chaud, a still lightly raced daughter of Star Witness, hasn’t won since claiming a Benchmark 66 in the Riverina late in 2021.
Racing heads to Nowra on Tuesday.
Since then, it’s been several false dawns across southern NSW and up down the South Coast searching for that elusive sixth career win.
Based now at Queanbeyan with Nick Olive, Temoin Chaud lines up in an average Benchmark 58 Hcp over 1400m.
From a sound draw, and coming through generally superior form lines than her opposition, she won’t get a better chance to return to the winner’s stall.
Temoin Chaud tackled the much stronger Queen Of The South three starts back over the Wagga carnival before running home well to miss narrowly in a better quality BM 58 at Dubbo.
She then disappointed as an each-way chance in similar company at the Sapphire Coast, but this is the weakest race she’s faced in some time.
Only one local galloper lines up, with the field virtually cornered by Goulburn, Queanbeyan and Canberra visitors.
It was more than three years ago when the then three-year-old announced herself by charging home to win her maiden at Orange in only her second start.
She went straight to CL1 company and beat them easily, and soon after was tackling Highway company among other stronger races in the second half of 2020.
Consecutive wins up to Class 3 level in a new autumn prep in 2021 had form analysts believing she was ripe for a metro assault, but soon after setbacks and little injuries took their toll, and she had only seven runs in a 12-month period from late 2021.
But good things come to those who wait, and Temoin Chaud and her big group of owners have seemingly waited long enough.
The Olive yard also saddles up improving four-year-old Snappy Jim in that same race.
