De Goey dominant debut win

De Goey stamped himself as a genuine Dandy Patch contender with a dominant prelude win in Hobart on Friday night.

The Captaintreachrous colt was sent out as a $7 chance for his debut and was positioned nicely one-out and two-back before storming home over the final 100m to run down the leading trio and score by 1.5m over Bolt Your Socks on and Triedtotellya.

The mile rating was 1m 59.8s in the first two-year-old race held over 2090m in Tasmania this season.

“It was a good drive,” said trainer Rohan Hadley post-race.

“I think what switched him on was when Todd came on Nyack outside him, and Rohan (Hillier) said that made him get in and race.

De Goey is owned and bred by Rohan’s wife, Vicki, and they have had no reason to rush the two-year-old to the track.

“I don’t push my babies too much, I just take my time with them and given the Sires’ race was coming up and how I trained him up just recently, I thought he was good enough to participate,” Hadley said.

Hadley also expects some natural improvement to come with the pacer.

“I would have liked to have given him another trial, but I have just had too much cattle work on.

“I would like to think he could improve, he doesn’t know much about racing,” explained the trainer.

De Goey is the second horse to race out of the Cardmaster Hanover mare Jokers Wild Card, and he has shown promise in the lead-up to his debut effort.

“Early days, I gave him to Barrie Rattray to help educate him for me. He would have had him six weeks, I had to do that so he could work with other horses, and Barrie had an opinion of him then,” said Hadley.

Race favourite Karalta Artemis missed the placings, finishing in fourth spot, while recent Sweepstakes winner Nyack finished fifth.

Evicus heats

Two heats of the Evicus were held on the nine-race card, which saw both favourites beaten.

The Paul Hill trained Reely Nauti ($3.50) scored a narrow maiden win in the opening heat after racing outside the leader to score and dug deep late to score by a head in a mile of 2m 1.7s, with Mark Yole in the sulky.

Heat two was taken out by the Paul Carlson-trained Gypsy Amour ($10), who made it back-to-back wins after being restrained from a wide draw by driver Todd Rattray.

The daughter of Vincent led the one-wide lineup over the final circuit before racing away from her rivals for a 5.1m win.

The mile was run in 1m 59.5s, which was the quickest of the two heats.

The Finals of the Group 2 Dandy Patch and Evicus will be held on 20 November.