By Jordan Gerrans<\/p>\n
It is nearly three decades since Bill Kenning tasted Townsville Cup glory as a rider and all these years on, he is sticking to the same methods as a trainer as he aims to finally nab the feature prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was Kiwi-bred galloper Only Chance who delivered him the major Cluden Park prize as a jockey back in 1997 with his partner Julie Bell doing the training.<\/p>\n
Only Chance also won the Listed Rockhampton Cup and Tatt’s Cup at Callaghan Park in that season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Plenty of water has gone under the bridge since then approaching the 2025 Cup, with Kenning listed as the trainer these days with Bell his trusted offsider still.<\/p>\n
Kenning has long been shooting to add a training Townsville Cup prize to his resume alongside his crown as a jockey. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In those days, Kenning and Bell were regulars at the beach in Central and North Queensland with Only Chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They present to the $150,000 feature this Saturday with the in-form Beau Rain.<\/p>\n
Asked to compare Beau Rain with Cup champion Only Chance, Kenning can see two similarities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Firstly, the two gallopers are not bred to run a staying trip but as the top horseman says, horses do not know who their parents are.<\/p>\n
And, secondly, they both love the beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jordan Gerrans It is nearly three decades since Bill Kenning tasted Townsville Cup glory as a rider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-49695","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\/49695","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=49695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}