Above: Herald Sun columnist Daryl Timms, who moonlights as a trainer, was busy working at Flemington’s Oaks meeting last Thursday, but was just happy to have a horse engaged at Pakenham’s inaugural ladies day meeting.Brad Kingsbury
AN interesting sidelight of last week’s Pakenham Oaks meeting was the inclusion of a horse named Breaking Tradition in the 1300metre maiden for fillies and mares.
The trainer listed in the race book was Daryl Timms of Pakenham, the same Daryl Timms who is responsible for ‘The Pulse’ column in the Herald Sun sports pages.
Timms, who lives in Beaconsfield, has held a trainer’s licence for about 10 years and started racing horses at picnic meetings before moving on to the professional races.
He said he had raced eight horses in that time and won a couple of races at his Pakenham home track.
His best performer was Tallawah, which he trained four years ago and had cityclass ability.
Timms owns Breaking Tradition with a couple of other people and got her from Miners Rest based trainer Darren Weir who originally trained her for a partner in Jayco Caravans, Jerry Ryan.
After a number of setbacks, which were treated by vet Mark Curtis with, among other things acupuncture, the horse was deemed fit enough to race and last week’s event was its first hitout for 10 weeks and only its third overall.
“She can run a bit, but I’m just taking my time with her,” Timms said.
“She’s a staying type and has had a couple of problems, but we’re hopeful of some success.”
