Winning double for Hawick jockey Rowan Scott at Hamilton
Hawick jockey Rowan Scott racked up a winning double at Hamilton yesterday, June 25, on JM Jhingree at 14-1 and Iris Dancer at 2-1.
He was riding the former, a four-year-old bay gelding, for Hawick trainer Ewan Whillans and the latter, a bay mare aged eight, for Cumbria’s Tristan Davidson.
JM Jhingree finished the 7pm Kilmac Selling Handicap’s five furlongs a neck ahead of Jack Nicholls on Thornaby Pearl to land a payout of £3,664.
That was his first win since one at Newcastle in December for former trainer Jim Goldie’s East Renfrewshire yard and fifth all together.
It took Scott to four first-placed finishes in five days after others at Catterick in North Yorkshire over seven furlongs on Monday riding Velvet Rhythm for Charlie Johnston’s North Yorkshire stables at 6-1and Pontefract in West Yorkshire over a mile the day before on Amidst the Chaos for fellow North Yorkshire trainer Nigel Tinkler at 11-4.
Iris Dancer’s victory by over two lengths from Kevin Stott on Sherlock in the six-furlong Hamilton Park Construction Race-Day Handicap at 9pm, also earning £3,664, took her tally of wins at the South Lanarkshire track to 14, a new record.
That was her second win of the month, the other, at Hamilton too and again with Scott in the saddle, having been on Wednesday, June 10.
Fellow Hawick jockey Jason Hart chalked up a win at Pontefract on Sunday as well, over six furlongs on Badri for Lincolnshire’s Michael Herrington at 9-1, and he followed that up with further victories at Musselburgh the day after and two at Beverley on Tuesday.
His East Lothian winner, over a mile, was Only Dream Big at 5-2 for North Yorkshire trainer Tim Easterby and his follow-up first places in East Yorkshire were on Tattie Bogle over seven furlongs at 15-2 and Sahm Naif over a mile and a furlong at 9-4 for North Yorkshire’s Charlie Johnston and Suffolk’s James Horton respectively.