![]() ![]() ![]() “This is the only event anyway that I am still eligible to race as a junior, so I could not really hope anyway to win that title this year. Dad told me the race was on and I decided to give it a crack.”Īnd while 2021 national junior 250cc motocross champion Brown would have loved to win the race against his friend on Sunday, he said that accepting runner-up spot to team-mate Hannon was still immensely satisfying. I didn’t even know I was going to be doing this race until last week. And an electric start makes all the difference too. It was my first cross-country race on a four-stroke bike and it was awesome. “I was just praying I had enough fuel to finish the last lap. Of course, if it doesn’t, then you’re in a lot of trouble,” the 16-year-old laughed. “I just think it was a matter of twisting the throttle hard and that generally keeps you going straight. “I don’t know what the winning secret was for me today,” said Cambridge teenager Hannon. The two motocross riders took their distinctive green MR Motorcycles Kawasaki bikes to finish 1-2 in the 90-minute gut-buster, separated by just 78 seconds at the end, with New Plymouth’s Josh Houghton (Husqvarna) finishing only 39 seconds further back to claim the third step on the podium. Kawasaki team-mates Jared Hannon and Tyler Brown were almost unstoppable in the junior grade at this first of four rounds in the 2022 New Zealand Cross-country Championships, held on steep Rangitikei farmland on Sunday. It had been planned that Giga Kick would next run in the G2 Premiere Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on September 30, before going third-up into defending his Everest title.īut Rod Douglas said plans may be changed after his first-up run and he might now instead be sent second-up straight into The Everest.The nation’s cross-country racing elite would probably have been green with envy when the chequered flag fell in the junior race at Marton at the weekend. "I have got my four kids at home and my wife's got me and that's what I focus on, I stay in my lane." "I've been riding for 30 years and racing is a very reactive and very emotional sport and whatever Rocket has said is obviously what he's said. "He's been a good horse to me and we've had really good success, I'm not too sure, it sounds like in the next 48 hours we'll all get an answer. "It's Jonathan Munz's horse and he makes the call on who rides the horse and that's just the way it is. I never listen to any comments, nor do I read any of the publications. ![]() "No I haven't and I don't need anything outside of worrying about doing what I do in riding horses and being a father," he said. Speaking at Sandown on Wednesday afternoon, Williams said he hadn't heard Douglas' comments and that he wasn't concentrating on the speculation he would be replaced. Williams, who has ridden the sprinter in eight of his 11 starts, including five wins, admitted post-race that it had been 'pilot error' to take off mid-race on the gelding after he had missed the kick, covering ground and running mid-sectionals of 20.89 seconds from the 800-400 metres before eventually finishing third behind Imperitriz, who won in track-record time. There's no excuse for what he did'.ĭouglas later told that a decision on the jockey and future spring plans for Giga Kick will be made in the next 48 hours as connections weigh up their options. It comes after Rod 'Rocket' Douglas, the Pinecliff Racing Manager and uncle of Giga Kick's trainer Clayton Douglas, unleashed on the champion jockey saying there was 'no excuse' for his ride on the sprinter first-up in the Group 2 McEwen Stakes last Saturday, labelling it disappointing and a 'gut-buster'.ĭouglas didn't hold back on Radio TAB on Wednesday morning when asked about Williams' ride on the four-year-old, saying he would have 'strangled him with my bare hands, I'd have strangled him in the mounting yard. "But as far as I'm aware I'm still riding the horse." "My only comment is that as far as I was aware I am riding the horse and until I hear otherwise and I'll be hearing obviously from Jonathan Munz if that changes," he said. Craig Williams aboard Giga Kick (Image: Bradley Photos)Ĭraig Williams has responded to speculation he is set to lose the ride on Giga Kick, saying as far as he knows he's still booked for the star sprinter's next run. ![]()
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