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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk \u00a0<\/p>\n
What a story it will be if Typhoon Tere could pull off a victory at Blenheim today.<\/p>\n
Incredibly, the nine-year-old son of Washington VC is having just his second race day start, over five years after his debut at Addington.<\/p>\n
Then (July 24, 2020) he was trained by Ken Barron. Now he is under the care of Jason and Ian Thomas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Recent years have had their challenges. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“At one stage he cracked a pastern and had to be boxed for a while,” says Jason Thomas.<\/p>\n
That was well before he arrived at their Charing Cross stables in Canterbury.<\/p>\n
“We have had him about eight or nine months.”<\/p>\n
Not that he wasn’t exactly in tip top shape when he arrived.<\/p>\n
“He was a big boy!” laughs Thomas, “we had him on rations for a bit with plenty of dry hay.”<\/p>\n
Over the months they have gradually worked him into shape.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got him to the point where he is as good as we can get him and we just hope to keep him sound.”<\/p>\n
Initially the plan was for Typhoon Tere to resume at Motukarara on December 29.<\/p>\n
“But he got a virus so we pulled him out,” says Thomas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They then looked around for a suitable grass track meeting and decided on Blenheim.<\/p>\n
“We thought that after a five year break we couldn’t take him to Addington where they’d run a (1)57-58 mile,” says Thomas, “we need to take our time.”<\/p>\n
In December Typhoon Tere definitely showed he still has some ability, winning at the Ashburton trials when he came off the back of subsequent Nelson winner Shanky’s Shot.<\/p>\n
“He went really nice that day” says Thomas.<\/p>\n
Today he’ll line up in Race 3, the Event Rent Marlborough Mobile Pace (3.17pm).<\/p>\n
On the back of his trials form he opened a $2.70 favourite.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The gelding’s owner Lance Proffit and his “new” trainers will have everything crossed that their patience and hard work will get its reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"16 January 2026 , Punters Info By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk \u00a0 What a story it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-236141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}