Ladbrokes Park

35 MELBOURNE 4 2:30PM 4 1400m FRANK O’BRIEN HANDICAP 1400m Of $125,000 . 1st $68,750, 2nd $22,500, 3rd $11,250, 4th $6,250, 5th $3,750, 6th $2,500, 7th $2,500, 8th $2,500, 9th $2,500, 10th $2,500. Prizemoney contribution totaling 3% will be directed to jockey and equine welfare prior to distribution. BenchMark 78 Handicap. Apprentices can claim. Track Record: 1-21.20E Exceed And Excel (21/09/2003) [Good3] Class Record: 1-22.47E Turn the Tide (26/12/2019) [Good3] 1 s6402 VIRAL (3) Danny O’Brien (wc) ...................................................... DAMIAN LANE 62 2 408s6 NEVER AGAIN (5) Clinton McDonald (dw) ........................... WILL PRICE (a3/48kg) 61.5 3 34726 KAZIO (8) Aaron Purcell (dw) .................................. TEODORE NUGENT (a1.5/49kg) 60.5 4 0310s LAST KINGDOM (USA) (2) Logan McGill ................ CAMPBELL RAWILLER (a3/54kg) 60.5 5 70956 JENTICO (6) Tony & Calvin McEvoy (dc) ........................... LIAM RIORDAN (a2/53kg) 59.5 6 0976s UNDER OATH (1) Henry Dwyer (dw) ................ MATTHEW CARTWRIGHT (a3/50.5kg) 59.5 7 70163 WICKLOW TOWN (7) Julie Scott (w) ...................................... CRAIG WILLIAMS 59 8 84s24 HERE COMES LENNI (NZ) (11) Will Clarken (d) . ............................... JAMIE KAH 58 9 47s27 WRITE YOUR NAME (9) Archie Alexander (d) ............................ JORDAN CHILDS 58 10 845s0 LA FALAISE (4) Henry Dwyer (w) ........................................ DAMIEN THORNTON 57.5 11 72335 PROMOTIONS (12) James Cummings (dw) ................................ DAMIEN OLIVER 57.5 12 8s516 TRITON RISING (10) Tom Dabernig & Ben Hayes (d) .......................... JYE MCNEIL 57.5 FORM SUMMARY JENTICO will enjoy the drop in grade as she returns to a distance she likes racing at. VIRAL should benefit from the inside barrier and will look to settle on the speed. KAZIO and UNDER OATH both have nice distance records and will look to settle midfield. TECHFORM’S TOP 5 5 Jentico 100 11 Promotions 97 1 Viral 94 7 Wicklow Town 94 4 Last Kingdom 94 FRANK O’BRIEN FRANK O’BRIEN was one of Australia’s finest broadcasters in a golden era for racing, calling the exciting winning performances of champions like Kingston Town, Dulcify, Super Impose, Bonecrusher, Vogue Rogue and Better Loosen Up in a career that lasted 41 years. He called his first race at the age of 15 at Alexandra and two years later, in 1952, joined the race calling panel at 3UZ. A year later when Fred Tupper resigned as the racecaller for 3AW, Frank was appointed his successor. When 3AW ceased its racing coverage in 1959 Frank crossed to 3LO where he worked with one of the doyens of Australian racecallers, Joe Brown, calling the last race on the programme. When Joe Brown stepped down as the Course Broadcaster in 1974, Frank took over at Flemington and Moonee Valley. He called his last race at Moonee Valley on 27th July, 1991. Frank passed away on 12th May 2006.