CONSIDER it won!
Kembla Grange trainer Joe Ible has “kept it in the family”, winning at Canberra on Friday with his latest acquisition, $21 chance Consider It Ready.
Ible returned to his former stamping ground to win the Benchmark 50 Handicap (1200m) for four-year-olds and upwards.
The Sebring mare was having her first start for him after doing her earlier racing with Newcastle trainer Kris Lees, for whom she raced five times for a Kempsey Maiden (1250m) second in March and Taree Maiden Plate (1400m) victory in April.
A $50,000 yearling buy at the Gold Coast in 2022, Consider It Ready was put up for sale online in May, and Ible secured her for $6500.
“We bought her for a bit of fun and she has already recouped her purchase price,” Ible said on Saturday.
“First prize at Canberra was $8390.
“It wasn’t the strongest race, but it was good to get that win with her straight away.”
Adding to Ible’s delight was that Consider It Ready was ridden by Patrick Scorse, with whom he has previously had a good association.
“Patrick was apprenticed to me when I was based at Canberra, and he has now returned there from the Central Coast.
“That was like old times getting a win together.”
Ible not only purchased the four-year-old mare to have a bit of fun as he put it, but also because he knew plenty about the family.
Consider It Ready is a three-quarter sister to Seeblume, with whom he won a Highway Handicap (1500m), with Hugh Bowman aboard, at Rosehill Gardens in September 2018 before subsequently relocating to Kembla Grange.
“James Cummings and Kris Lees both trained Seeblume before we got her, and like Consider It Ready, we won first-up with her at Nowra in February, 2018.”
“We might look to the Bong Bong picnics in November with Consider It Ready.”
Ible was a winner at the annual meeting last year, scoring with another mare Fiancetto.
Consider It Ready was his second winner of the new season and career 121st, and he is keenly looking ahead to the remainder of this racing year.
“I’ve got 30 horses in work, and many of them are youngsters, so I’m pretty busy,” Ible said.
“Hopefully it’s another good season for us.”
Story John Curtis, September 21, 2024
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