{"id":79550,"date":"2025-08-20T06:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79550\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:59:10","slug":"trainer-vincent-hall-combines-with-long-time-mate-for-welcome-city-win-at-sandown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79550\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainer Vincent Hall combines with long-time mate for welcome city win at Sandown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bond lasting more than two decades produced another memory when <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/dubai-watch-aus\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dubai Watch<\/a> prevailed in a driving finish at Sandown on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jockey <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/jockey\/luke-currie\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Currie<\/a> got everything out of Dubai Watch in the last 150m to get the gelding home a nose ahead of Bold Strike for his fourth win in his last five starts for Mornington trainer <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/trainer\/vincent-hall\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vincent Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/pro-tips\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PUNT LIKE A PRO<\/a>: Become a <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/frequently-asked-questions-faq\/racenet-iq-membership\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Racenet iQ member<\/a> and get expert tips \u2013 with fully transparent return on investment statistics \u2013 from Racenet\u2019s team of professional punters at our <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/pro-tips\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pro Tips<\/a> section. <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/racenetiq\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The pair first met when Hall started his riding career during which he was one of Australia\u2019s best apprentices before rising weight forced him out of the saddle.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hall said he and Currie have been friends for the entire period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a touch older than me and he took me under his wing,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was only 16 or 17 and we\u2019ve been great mates since then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 25 years of friendship and it\u2019s great to support him. He\u2019s a great jockey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe deserves everything he gets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/news\/trainer-clayton-douglas-unlikely-to-target-the-everest-with-giga-kick-20250819\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giga Kick unlikely for The Everest as Douglas reveals spring plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dubai Watch gave Hall his second win at metropolitan level, which he said was a welcome boost for the business he was developing with his partner Briar Stobie on the Mornington Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a perfect result. Me and Briar work in well together and she does a great job with this horse,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can be quite fierce, or he was when he came to us, and she\u2019s got him grounded and working beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting good results buying tried horses and we have some young ones there that take time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/news\/trainer-vincent-hall-combines-with-longtime-mate-luke-currie-for-welcome-city-win-with-dubai-watch-at-sandown-20250820\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trainer Vincent Hall combines with long-time mate Luke Currie for welcome city win with Dubai Watch at Sandown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bond lasting more than two decades produced another memory when Dubai Watch prevailed in a driving finish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[18957,16462,12036,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-79550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-punters-racing-victoria","tag-racenet-race-reviews","tag-racenet-racing-victoria","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79550","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=79550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}