Martin's Double Strike At Hobart

A two hour trip to trial at Hobart saw Rosevale trainer Ricky Martin land immediate success on Thursday night with Fink Racer and Ruby Flash providing the kennel with a winning double in consecutive races.

Home-bred Fink Racer got the ball rolling, with the St. Pierre x Leica Comet chaser finally rewarded with a decent box draw when taking the lead coming off the top turn, charging away in the straight to score by 1 ½ lengths from Destini Tweed in 26.39.

Fink Racer delivered his eleventh career victory from 54 career starts and $24,712 in prizemoney.

"For a home-bred dog he has been pretty consistent," Ricky said.

"It was good to see him get a win back on the board confidence wise, Fink Racer has been drawing bad boxes and when he came out with the four I thought he was in with a good chance."

"He's lightly raced and is just over three years old – hopefully there's plenty more races left in him."

A member of a nine-pup litter by former Australian Cup and Devonport Cup winner St. Pierre, Fink Racer has been a tough campaigner for both Ricky and wife Sonia having made this year's Launceston Cup behind Del Rey in his first group race outing.

Littermates Woosha (14 wins) and Ricson Flyer (6 wins) have been top class runners for the kennel.

Ruby Flash capped of the winning double taking out the 340m juvenile holding out a late charge from Sebastian Lee scoring convincingly in 19.42, on the back of a highly promising 278m win at Launceston last Thursday week.

The daughter of Barcia Bale x Flash Innings was a good purchase by Ricky, already the winner of two races.

"She's a nice bitch with plenty of early speed – I only paid $2,000 for her," the trainer explained.

"The win at Launceston showed plenty so Hobart was the next run and I went down and trialled, she handled the track well and it was a good field, when Sebastian Lee missed the start I thought we could sneak the win, it a strong performance.

"At the time I didn't have much coming through the kennel and a couple of pups came up for sale so I bought her and litter sister Ev's Girl, by Barcia Bale the litter show promise and I we've had a good association with is line."
Flash Ruby's litter sister Two For Me broke through for a debut win at Geelong last Friday night for Jeff Britton, Ev's Girl and Flash Holly are yet to brake their maiden status being trained in Tassie.