Trainer Gary Colvin saddles up Pride Of Jezza at Narrandera on Thursday

Gary Colvin-trained blue blood Pride Of Jezza will be ‘racing for fun’ if he can make it back-to-back wins at Narrandera on the final day of the 2024/25 season.

Trainer Gary Colvin will saddle up Pride Of Jezza at Narrandera on Thursday. Picture: Grant Guy

Gary Colvin-trained blue blood Pride Of Jezza will be ‘racing for fun’ if he can make it back-to-back wins when he heads to Narrandera on the last day of the 2024/25 season.

The son of Pride Of Dubai’s current earnings of $38,755 are just shy of his $40,000 purchase price at the 2023 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale.

Bred by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, Pride Of Jezza’s grandam, Piavonic, won nine races but is best remembered for her upset win in the 2001 Manikato Stakes in which she rolled Sunline and Falvelon.

Pride Of Jezza, who will turn four on Friday, turned in a barnstorming win of his own last start when coming from well back to claim his 1400m Maiden at Wagga by a widening two-length margin.

His mission on Thursday is the Macarthur Real Estate Agency Class 1 & Maiden Plate (1600m).

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“There’s something about him,’’ Country Championship Final-winning trainer Colvin said.

“He won really easily last week. He came from last and did what I had been expecting him to do for a while.

“He just went past them and the jockey just eased him down going past the post, so he should get the mile all right.”

The prospect of a wet track ought not trouble resuming stablemate Nic’s Hero whose record on Heavy is two wins and five placings from nine runs.

It’s a trait shared by, and likely passed on, by his ‘damsire Nothin' Leica Dane, whose solitary appearance on a Heavy was his splitting of Doriemus and Vintage Crop in the Melbourne Cup, three days after beating Octagonal in the Victoria Derby.

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“I am very interested to see how he goes because he’s had a couple of jump-outs,’’ says Colvin.

“He’s no mug, you’ve just got to place him right. I hope he’s placed right on Thursday.”

Colvin is likely to be represented by three of his string in the last race at Narrandera on Thursday, namely Philadelphia Storm, Kerma Art and Newyork Missile.

“Philadelphia Storm loves it wet,’’ the trainer said.

“He’s an on and off horse, you’ve just got to place him right and hope he does well.

“Kerma Art ran well last time too on the wet.

“The way Newyork Missile is going at the moment, he was very strong last week and a bit unlucky, I think he’d probably be the pick of the three of them.”

Originally published as Trainer Gary Colvin saddles up Pride Of Jezza at Narrandera on Thursday