Borders trainer and jockey Katie Scott and Jason Hart join forces to sign off on 2025’s Scottish flat-racing season with win for Gweedore at Musselburgh
Selkirk trainer Katie Scott and Hawick jockey Jason Hart teamed up to sign off on 2025’s Scottish flat-racing season with a win for 9-4 favourite Gweedore at Musselburgh today, November 5.
The eight-year-old bay gelding notched up his first win since August 2023 by a short head from U Sure Do, ridden by Sean Kirrane for North Yorkshire trainer Tim Easterby, in the seven-furlong Thank You and Good Luck Persia Handicap at 3.28pm, earning prize money of £9,421.
That was the 13th win of his career, six of them having been at the East Lothian track and five at Ayr, with the other two at Doncaster in South Yorkshire and Newmarket in Suffolk.
Hart was in the saddle for five of those first-placed finishes and Andrew Breslin for the same number.
Lindean-based Scott was delighted to end the season on a high with a win for Gweedore, owned by Norrth Lanarkshire’s Lamont Racing syndicate, saying: “He’s been an amazing horse as he’s so tough.
“He just never knows when he’s beaten and that will probably be him on holiday now.
“He loves it here and he’s likely to come back for the Silver Arrow Handicap in April, a race he’s won twice before.
“He will be nine next year but he will keep on the go as long as he is still enjoying himself.”
That was one of two wins on the day for Hart, the other being on Wen Moon for Ben Haslam’s North Yorkshire yard in the opening Happy Birthday John Grossick Handicap at 12.53pm by a length from Andrew Mullen on Little Mi Mi, trained by Iain Jardine in Dumfries and Galloway.
That first-placed finish at 16-5 over five furlongs landed a top prize of £3,664.
Hart also took a third place, on Sayidah New Bay for Irish trainer John O’Donoghue, in the Balfour Beatty Power Handicap at 2.25pm.
His wins at Musselburgh were his first of the month after ending October with one on Caballo Grande last Friday over six furlongs at Southwell in Nottinghamshire for Suffolk trainer Michael Bell, earning £3,402.
First place in that one-mile-four-furlong race went to Archie Young on 3-1 favourite Velvet Whisper for Ed Bethell’s North Yorkshire stables, with Hawick trainer Ewan Whillans’ Sure and Stedfast second over four lengths behind, with Joanna Mason riding.