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Aaron Bain ended the 2024/25 South Australian metropolitan racing season with a win by SOLAR MIST in the final event.

In a bit of trivia, ABR trainers Aaron Bain and Ned Taylor prepared the first winner of the season at Murray Bridge with HOLLYWOOD HIGH for Pipeliner Bloodstock of Wayne Mitchell, then had the final winner with SOLAR MIST rewarding a very loyal bunch of owners who have really experienced the ups and downs of racing.

ABR finished the metro season on 22 winners, up from 10 the previous season, and in sixth position.

It was a fantastic season with our first full year at Angaston Park and ABR is excited about building on those figures in 2025/26 and hopefully climbing into the top three on the premiership.

No runners for ABR at Balaklava, the final meeting of the 2024/25 season in South Australia.

On the state premiership, trainers Bain & Taylor have had 40 winners to finish eighth overall, up from 11^th the previous year when ABR had 26 winners.

On the harness front on Friday, ABR had a winner with first-starter RAVISHING RUBY at Hobart and now we look forward to this Saturday’s final.

With no runners on Wednesday, ABR is looking forward to action on the weekend on both the thoroughbred and harness fronts.

ABR Weekend Star

 

What a way to end the 2024/25 racing season with SOLAR MIST turning in a last-to-first effort to win the final event at Morphettville to be ABR’s weekend star.

It is said greys love the wet and so it proved for the ABR galloper winning on a heavy 10 track in a race run in pouring rain.

Aaron Bain Racing was delighted for the connections of the consistent grey to finally delivered a metropolitan win at Morphettville.

SOLAR MIST turned in a last to first performance to win the Grand Syndicates / Aaron Bain Racing Handicap (1100m).

In the initial stages, the grey, trained by Aaron Bain & Ned Taylor, was a clear last, three lengths detached from the body of the field of 15 but warmed into his task approaching the home turn.

Brought to the extreme outside by apprentice rider Matthew Chadwick, SOLAR MIST, backed from as much as $41 into $14, charged home to grab a half-length win from Purfect Line ($4.40 fav) with Cool The Jets ($21), three and a half lengths away third.

Trainer Aaron Bain said SOLAR MIST had showed early potential, had lost his way for a while, but was now back starting to live up to his early potential, and the owners who had been on a roller-coaster ride finally were rewarded with a city win.

“He went away for a while, but we wanted him back for the winter,” Bain said.

“It means a lot to win in these colours for John Curnow, and his wife Sue, they have been a big supporter of our stable for a long time.

“John and Sue were here today standing out in the driving rain – nothing was going to stop them.

“This horse may have won at a big price, but he loves the wet and he got it today.

“It was his biggest chance to win a city race, and he did.

“We paid $70,000 for him at an Adelaide Yearling Sale, he was one of the first yearlings we purchased.

“We were offered good money early on to go to Hong Kong, but we kept him and that is racing.

“It is a great thrill and gets the money off the back as Ned (Taylor) is away for 3-1/2 weeks and set us an unders and overs market of five winners while he is away and this is the first.

“Just so pleased though for the owners of SOLAR MIST.”

Winning jockey Matthew Chadwick said it was fantastic to ride his first winner for Aaron Bain Racing.

“It was great to get one for the Bain and Taylor team,” Chadwick said.

“I have been doing a bit of work for them lately and they have been giving me good opportunities.

“I was actually struggling to keep up for the first 300 metres.

“He was struggling to get into rhythm in the ground but once I was able to tack on to the rear of the field I was sweet.

“Greys in the wet, they love it, and I was wrapt to get the win for the team and the connections.”

Trainer Peter Bain’s Hobart win

He has been training for several decades but ABR trainer Peter Bain achieved a career-first with his first winner in Hobart on Friday with his first runner on the Apple Isle.

Bain took unraced two-year-olds RAVISHING RUBY and B T CAPTIVATE to Hobart for heats of a Sweepstakes series culminating in a final this Saturday.

Driven by Mark Yole, RAVISHING RUBY found the front from gate four in the Fehlbergs Produce Two-Year-Old Fillies Produce (1609m) and was never headed.

Race favourite at $1.55, daughter of Always B Miki went the lead after the first 250m, and was able to dictate affairs, running quarters of 29.0s, 30.3s, 28.6s and 28.6s, going on to score by 12.5m over Stayzbetter ($26) and Daisy Pea ($3).

The mile of 1:56.5s took half a second off the previous best time for a two-year-old filly in Tasmania of 1:57.0, which was set by ABR’s BEACH DIAMOND last year, and was only 0.3s outside the overall two-year-old state record set by Karalta Artemis in 2022.

“She was fantastic. She was very green but has a lot of natural ability,” said Yole.

In the second heat of the Fehlberg Produce Two-Year-Old Colts & Geldings Sweepstakes (1609m), Barber Shop ($4.20) scored by a head over B T CAPTIVATE ($2.20 fav) and Solo Safari ($21) in 1:57.9s.

Both Bain-trained runners have qualified for $30,000 finals at Hobart this Saturday.