Edwards hopes consistency will pay off at Sunshine Coast

By Glenn Davis

Deagon trainer Jason Edwards is hopeful consistency will be rewarded when Senrima Tide heads to the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday.

Senrima Tide has been placed at his past three starts and will be out to end his frustrating run in the Benchmark 70 Handicap over 1800 metres.

The seven-year-old will lump 59kgs with jockey Ben Thompson aboard after Edwards decided against using a claiming apprentice on the seven-year-old.

“I could have claimed on him but when Ben Thompson was available, I couldn’t knock him back,” Edwards said.

“He’s riding so well.

“It’s not that an apprentice can’t ride him as he’s not a hard horse to ride but they’ve got to get going on him a long way from home.

“Ben rode a winner for me on The Love Rocket at the Sunshine Coast recently so I’m hoping the luck continues.”

Senrima Tide has been ridden by apprentices only twice in his 33-start career with Toowoomba’s Angela Jones the last junior rider to partner him when second at Ipswich on November 4.

The only other apprentice to have been legged up was Sheridan Tomlinson who finished sixth on the gelding in a Benchmark race at Doomben in April.

Senrima Tide is coming off a last start third to Divine Eleven in an 1800-metre Class 5 at the Gold Coast on December 4.

“He’s been racing very consistently and he rarely runs a bad race,” Edwards said.

Senrima Tide has had 13 starts for Edwards for a solitary Class 4 win at Ipswich in March since transferring from Eagle Farm trainer Chris Meagher at the start of the year.

A son of Ocean Park, Senrima Tidy originally hailed from Victoria where he won twice in eight starts for Melbourne’s Mick Price before being moved on to Murwillumbah trainer Matt Dunn.

After failing to win in eight starts for Dunn, Senrima Tide found his way to Meagher who coaxed a further two wins from him before he joined Edwards’ stable.

Edwards rates fellow Deagon galloper Mocambo and topweight Octavian as the two main threats to Senrima Tide notching up his sixth win in 34 starts.

The Michael Lakey-trained Mocambo has shown his liking for the 1800-metre trip stepping up to the distance for the first time since moving to Queensland when second at the Sunshine Coast last month.

The former Allan Denham-trained gelding was then successful over the journey winning a Benchmark race at the Sunshine Coast on December 5.

Octavian was a last start winner over 1500 metres when Hatch sent him to Rockhampton on December 13.