{"id":120384,"date":"2025-09-07T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120384\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:16:08","slug":"northam-out-to-maintain-impressive-winning-strike-rate-at-tamworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120384\/","title":{"rendered":"Northam out to maintain impressive winning strike rate at Tamworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh from one of his best starts to a new season, \u201cRocket\u201d Rod Northam is eyeing off a four-pronged assault at Monday\u2019s Tamworth meeting.<\/p>\n

The likeable Scone trainer has brought home 11 individual winners from his last 34 runners, an impressive near 33 per cent strike rate across 26 days to kick-start 2025-26.<\/p>\n

\"Scone<\/p>\n

Scone trainer Rod Northam.Credit: Bradleys<\/p>\n

It could have been even bigger, with the yard running three close second-placings at Dubbo early last month before back-to-back placings on Cup day at Narromine.<\/p>\n

His latest successes came at Scone last Tuesday, when promising mare Smart Buy swept home to win a Class 1 before tough five-year-old Release Point narrowly landed a strong BM 66.<\/p>\n

And Northam will again carry good memories up the road to Tamworth, where he won a maiden 11 days ago with new arrival four-year-old Bullion Hunter.<\/p>\n

Northam certainly won\u2019t have to wait long at Tamworth to keep the run going, with improving mare Sebilla, a Benchmark 58 winner at home two weeks ago, contesting the opening BM 66 handicap over 2100m. He steps up Sebilla sharply in distance from the mile.<\/p>\n

The stable will then be confident when progressive mare Great Point looks to return to winning ways in a competitive BM 66 handicap over 1400m.<\/p>\n

A capable and fit daughter of Bull Point, Great Point progressed through consecutive Saturday Highways in winter before spelling. She then returned with a fast-finishing effort behind promising Peninsula in a BM 66 at Scone on August 19, and has since trained on well.<\/p>\n

Great Point is already a Tamworth winner, having claimed a BM 58 when coming from near last back in mid-June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh from one of his best starts to a new season, \u201cRocket\u201d Rod Northam is eyeing off a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-120384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}