Former Shropshire National Hunt jockey Steve Wynne has made his first major training impact - by saddling a 100-1 winner on the Flat.
Malpas-based handler Wynne had won point-to-points and a hunter chase when operating under a permit, but had been without a winner since taking out a licence in May last year.
But that all changed at Southwell yesterday when Wynne sent Tykie Two to a shock victory in the Racecourse for Conferences Handicap.
And it was double the joy for the Shropshire owner - Prees Heath’s Les Owen, who backed a horse that had been beaten by 27 and 37 lengths of late at odds of 200-1.
Wynne wasn’t at the Nottinghamshire track to watch his first success, but said from the Doncaster Sales: “I thought she would run better than she has been doing because of the slower surface - that is why we went to Southwell. “We have got 10 horses in the yard at the moment.
“They are young horses and we are hoping to progress from now on.
“I’m going to concentrate on the Flat and I would love to have a winner at my local track of Chester.”
Wynne was regularly amongst the winners as a jumps jockey in the early 1990s, and was stable jockey to late trainer Tim Forster at his Downton Hall, Ludlow, stables.
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