THE promising Arthur Pace-trained gelding Colsridge made a winning return to racing at Kyneton on Monday.
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Fresh from an 11-week let up, the five-year-old made it two wins from five career starts with a confident and impressive 1100m win in the day's class 1 event.
Ridden by Dean Holland, Colsridge came from well back in the field of 11 to swamp his rivals and win by half-a-length over Lord Domino with Shevrolet back in third.
The talented gelding previously broke his maiden at his second start at Mildura back in July before running an unlucky fourth and fifth in his next two starts at Sandown.
On the strength of his latest win, the son of Canford Cliffs and Two Hills looks destined for a good campaign ahead.
Holland, who has the perfect strike-rate aboard Colsridge with two wins from two rides, continues to be impressed by the five-year-old's potential.
"He's a decent horse this bloke, I won his maiden on him at Mildura and he probably had a bit of bad luck after that," he said.
"He ended up running in a couple of races and got caught wide, but I was very confident he would be too good for them today.
"I had to ride the horse and not the track today because although they are not making ground, he is going to be a better horse when we teach him to settle early.
"He attacked the line very strong, so I think he's a lot better than these (horses)."
Holland anticipates Colsridge will be even better over further ground in the 1200m and 1400m range.
"He can race up front, but I think he's going to be a heaps better horse switching off in his races and he done that really well (at Kyneton)," he said.
"He'll run 1400m. He's got a big stride and I can't wait to see him at Sandown or Flemington."
The Colsridge name is a tribute to late Bendigo jockey Colin Browell, who lost his battle with leukaemia in 2005 at the age of 33.
Cols is an obvious reference to Colin, while the 'ridge' part of the name pays respect to the final race winner of Browell's career Pindi Ridge, who was trained by Pace.
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