Jocelyn Young Photo by Pacepix
She’s done it before and now she’s done it again, with Jocelyn Young steering home four winners on Friday night at Wagin’s dual meeting on July 19.
Having driven four winners in the one night back in 2020 down in Albany, the same feat was welcomed on Friday, with Young mentioning she wasn’t at all expecting driving honours that night.
“My two were very under done, but I thought ability would carry them a fair way,
“I was hoping to get softer trips with them both though.”
Miki Made Monty last started on June 21, and although Young wasn’t overly confident, punters were, and the three-year-old started as the $2.15 favourite.
By Always B Miki and out of Cyclone Dilinger, the gelding was bred by Jocelyn herself, out of her mare that although she didn’t race, shares a special bond with, in another way.
Trained by Kim Young and retiring in late 2010 due to injury, Jocelyn and ‘Kristy’, as she’s known around the stables, started her next career as a show horse around 2013, and the pair eventually went on to compete at the Perth Royal Show under saddle in 2014 before injury struck again and she was put back in the paddock.
Young made the decision some five years later to put Cyclone Dilinger in foal, resulting in Miki Made Monty who’s now had eight starts for two wins and one placing, the first Foal she has bred herself.
Young didn’t have long to wait for her next win, with the 31-year-old partnering with Ashima to win the third on the card for trainer Daryl Miller.
The eight-year-old has now had a whopping for 188 starts, with Friday night's win her third win, but with 18 placings to her name, her stakes are now just shy of $70,000.
Young prepared a training double on the night as well as the driving quadrella, with Adda Bitto getting the win in race four.
Making it four consecutive races on the night, The Mighty Warrior NZ got the win in race five, with the six-year-old bringing up his first win for the stable at just his eighth start for trainer Tracey Reed.
Young and the Reed trained gelding lead all the way over the 1776m trip, staving off the $2.90 favourite in Ellucifer to win by a head margin on the line.
Jocelyn Young made the trip to Wagn with five drives on her book, walking away with the four winners, with Young recently reaching her milestone 400th driving win.
