Hawick trainer and jockey pairing Ewan Whillans and Greg Fairley chalk up third win in week and a half
Hawick trainer and jockey pairing Ewan Whillans and Greg Fairley notched up their second win at Musselburgh in the space of a week last Friday.
Their latest winner was Sure and Stedfast at 8-1 in the day’s 4.24pm Brodie Handicap over a mile and five furlongs.
The four-year-old bay gelding finished three-quarters of a length ahead of Luke Morris on 11-10 favourite Roc de Fer, trained by Mark Prescott in Suffolk, to claim a top prize of £5,234 at the East Lothian track.
That was Sure and Stedfast’s third win in 20 runs and first since one at Carlisle in September with another Hawick rider in the saddle, Rowan Scott.
It was also Fairley’s third first-placed finish for Whillans in a week and a half, following wins on Inappropriate at Musselburgh the Friday before at 10-3 and on Royal Blaze at Ayr at 3-1 on Monday, July 27.
That hat-trick of victories takes the now-Selkirk-based rider’s tally to nine since returning to racing last July after a 12-year ban imposed in 2011 by the British Horseracing Authority for colluding in a betting scam two years prior, all but one of them for Whillans, starting with one aboard Ramon di Loria at Wolverhampton in the West Midlands in February and also including one on Team Player earning almost £26,000 at Musselburgh in April.