SHELSTEIN Scores DYNAMIC Victory at IPSWICH

Class came to the fore in Race 7 at Ipswich on Friday afternoon when Dynamic 4yo gelding SHELSTEIN resumed from a spell and gave his peers a galloping lesson when he demolished a Class 2 field even though he was Class 1 eligible, to win Race 7 - PRECINCT URBAN PLANNING Class 2 Plate (1200m).



SHELSTEIN is trained by Annabel and Rob Archibald and had been in work at Warwick Farm and was ready to go racing, but he is a horse that has displayed to his trainers and connections a genuine dislike to wet ground. 

With the weather forecast, and the rain we have been receiving in Sydney, Annabel suggested we send SHELSTEIN up to Queensland to avoid the Heavy tracks in Sydney over the next few weeks to get his programme up and going, and we could bring him back to Sydney later in the Spring once the tracks dry out a bit. 

So, onto the truck he went and travelled up sweetly to Annabel’s stables and we had him engaged in two events on the day.

We elected to scratch from race 4 to concentrate on race 7 and it proved the correct call. 

Ridden by Jockey Jag Guthmann-Chester and carrying 58.5kg originally, he had come up with barrier 12 in a field of 19 acceptors where there were 16 runners and three emergencies. Around the tight turning Ipswich that’s never ideal. 

We waited until race morning and were shocked that there was 10 scratchings and that meant we jumped from barrier 8 of now 9 starters. That was terrific and we took our place in this event. 

Tactically, we anticipated there was good speed early and asked Jag to come out neutral and try to work across and get as close to the paint as possible. 

As the gates crashed back it was a perfect piece of horsemanship and we landed one off the fence, two pairs back, with good tempo on upfront. We then had a charmed run in transit, and watching the race unfold we could tell Jag had a lap full of horse and just needed to be patient.



As the field thundered into the home turn, Jag angled out 4 deep to find clear running and once SHELSTEIN saw daylight and balanced up into the straight, it was a case of just watching a horse that was at a superior class level go through his gears and break the spirit of those chasing.



SHELSTEIN had been placed in Sydney twice at Rosehill and Canterbury and was a Kembla winner from 7 starts. 



Jag eased right down over the final 100m and as the camera flashed, SHELSTEIN had posted an eased down but widening 4.48 lengths winning margin.



The only thing that shocked connections was the generosity of the Bookmakers and Tote to allow SHELSTEIN to start at $4.80 third favourite. Connections will not be seeing that for a while such was his dominance. 



SHELSTEIN defeated Araminta by 4.48 lengths with Dark Chill in third spot beaten 4.75 lengths. 

SHELSTEIN stopped the clock on a Soft 5 surface in a Time: 1:11.30 with the Last 600m: 35.78.

1st of 9 IPSW 8Aug25 1200m Soft5 CL2-SW $28,000-$15,600 Jag Guthmann-Chester 58.5, B8 Rtg62
2nd Araminta 58kg, 3rd Dark Chill 58.5kg 1:11.30 (600m 35.78), 4.48L, $5.50/$4.80/$5/$4.80



JOB DONE!

CONGRATULATIONS to our tremendous DYNAMIC OWNERSHIP Team that Race SHELSTEIN: Dynamic Syndications Racing, Mr G R Glynn, Mr S D Murray, Mrs P Smith, Mr W E Muller, Mr M P Lockwood, Mr A Cranes, Mr S R Niven, Mr G D Sharp, Mr D J Harrison, Mr W Peart, Stolk Racing, Mr S Millsom, Mr P J Wimpey, Mr P L Ward, Mr G J P Van Ameyden, Berkeley Park Stud, BLG Racing



SHELSTEIN is a 4-year-old bay or brown gelding 
By Written Tycoon ex Sylvia’s Mother (Snitzel)
Career Record is now: 8 Starts: 2:1:3 & Prizemoney: $70,550


Jag then gave a post-race report to the Dynamic Ownership Team: “Hi guys, thanks a lot for the ride. He was terrific. We had awkward gate, but I wanted to just come out neutral and I thought they all jumped in a pretty clean line, which just allowed me to cut back to the inside and I was quite lucky, I was able to sneak up and find a very good position and mid-race I was really happy, he travelled really nice underneath me, and it was just a matter of when I presented him. 

“I didn't really expect him to show that sharp a turn of foot being first-up I was worried I got there too soon. But with acceleration like that, he really put the race to bed pretty early and a pretty terrific effort first-up.”