Top-weighted Gentle Brook with Apprentice Mathew Thackeray up won the 1600m MR 70 Handicap by three lengths on June 6 at Borrowdale Park.
Tomorrow (Sunday June 14) the talented young jockey will represent South Africa in the 3rd edition of the prestigious Prix Longines Future Racing Stars in Chantilly, France.
Gentle Brook a five-year-old mare by Windrush (USA) is owned by P.J. Moor and is trained by Amy Bronkhorst. This was Gentle Brooke’s eighth win. She was bred by Highlands Farms Stud.
Photograph: Gavin Macleod