Laming aims for successive wins at Beaudesert

By Glenn Davis

Trainer Richard Laming is hopeful lightly raced mare Gee Bee Ess can produce back-to-back wins when she tackles the Benchmark 62 Handicap at Beaudesert on Tuesday.

Gee Bee Ess is a five-year-old daughter of Testa Rossa but has started only seven times for two wins and a second.

The former Victorian notched up her latest win in her Queensland debut when she flashed home for a narrow win over 1200 metres in a Benchmark 58 Handicap at Beaudesert on October 29.

Gee Bee Ess started her career with Laming when he was training at Cranbourne in Victoria before he moved back to the Gold Coast.

“She’s got a lot of ability but she’s had a lot of problems throughout her career,” Laming said.

“She won well last time and hopefully she can make it two in a row.”

She will be ridden by veteran hoop Craig Robertson on Tuesday. 

The 40-year-old Laming is the son of well-known trainer Bevan Laming who won the 1995 and 1997 Brisbane Cups with Desert Chill when it was a Group 1 race over 3200 metres and the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap with St Basil in 2005.

Bevan Laming was also in a joint training partnership with his son when Crossthestart won the 2010 Brisbane Cup.

Richard Laming also won the Listed Glasshouse Handicap at the Sunshine Coast in 2018 with Jamaican Rain, who went on to win twice at Group 3 level in Victoria the following year.

“I came back to Queensland about four months ago to help out my father around the stables,” Laming said.

“Dad is 82 but he’s still training and is currently in New Zealand.

“He needed a hand around the stables so I decided to come back to help him out.”

Laming still runs his Cranbourne stable where he has 20 horses in work, while he looks after 10 horses of his own in Queensland.

“I’ve got 20 horses in Cranbourne and the same number at Jacob’s Well while we have 10 in our Gold Coast barn,” Laming said.

The Lamings hold a unique record in Queensland racing that will never be beaten.

The pair trained Crossthestart when the gelding won the first race under the banner of the Brisbane Racing Club.

The Brisbane Racing Club was formed following a merger between the former Queensland and Brisbane Turf Clubs in July, 2009.