No doubt at some stage the corks will be popping and the balloons flying following the victory of Wedderburn trainer Nick Youngson\u2019s Bacardi Lindy-Claudys Queen mare Champagnes in the Aldebaran Park Concession Drivers Pace at Maryborough on Monday.<\/p>\n
The result provided an elated 21-year-old local reinswoman Olivia Jardine her first victory when having only her ninth race drive.<\/p>\n
Raced by Nick\u2019s wife Debbie, Champagnes was given a sweet trip by Jardine, who found a spot in behind pacemaker and speedy mare Jessicas Story from gate four.<\/p>\n
Angling away from the markers approaching the final bend, Champagnes pounced on a gap and raced to the front after Beautiful Sunrise had taken over running into the home turn. In the end, the seven-year-old recorded a runaway 7.1m victory at odds of $45.60.<\/p>\n
Jardine has always loved horses and grew up in the equestrian field before taking an interest in the harness scene. At one stage, she assisted as a swabbing steward at the provincial tracks.<\/p>\n
While her parents have no major interest in the sport, grandfather Ed Jardine had a smart horse by the name of Rathscar (by Floodlight) in the halcyon days who\u00a0won numerous races.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandfather Edward Jardine and his first cousin Hughie were always in the sport, and my Aunty Gail was married to Dick Benger, so she was heavily involved too. (Trainer) Maree Caldow is her daughter,\u201d Jardine told Harnesslink\u2019s Terry Gange.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad was more into motorbikes and didn\u2019t follow his father into harness racing. I went to the trots a few times when I was a kid, but I thought it was pretty boring, so I went for the riding side of things.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad\u2019s into the gallops and I really wanted to be a jockey.\u00a0 But I\u2019m an only child and mum and dad would only give me permission to do something a \u2018bit less dangerous\u2019, which they thought was harness racing!\u201d<\/p>\n
Judging by her exhibition on Monday, more winners will come Olivia\u2019s way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m on cloud nine \u2013 over the moon!\u201d Jardine said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe it happened and on my home track, too. I did most of my trials at Maryborough, and a lot of my support crew were there.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad was there to see my win and he was over the moon, but mum was home sick. They don\u2019t say too much, but I think they\u2019re pretty chuffed that I\u2019ve worked pretty hard to get that first win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No doubt at some stage the corks will be popping and the balloons flying following the victory of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-30380","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\/30380","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=30380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}