It is one of the best weeks on the calendar for the Geran stable with their home track taking centre stage hosting the Toowoomba Cup and time-honoured Weetwood Handicap.<\/p>\n
Taking home the coveted Cup would be a dream come true for Kylie as she looks to etch her name in the history books next to her aunt and former trainer Carmel Richardson.<\/p>\n
Training alongside her father Les Richardson, Carmel landed the 1981 and 1982 Cups with Odd Spot.<\/p>\n
She then became the first woman to complete the Toowoomba Cup-Weetwood double with Tod Minor and Lord Woden in 1985<\/p>\n
It is coveted family history that is not lost on Team Geran.<\/p>\n
\u201cWeeks like these is what we sort of work for all year round when you are getting up to your top-level races,\u201d Kylie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore important for me because it’s a family tradition \u2013 my aunty\u2019s won the Weetwood and Toowoomba Cups and it just makes you proud to be able to have runners.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’d be very emotional, but the Cup is just something that I think we will all dream to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a hard race to win but it’d be very special.\u201d<\/p>\n
The day\u2019s significance also hits home for the junior Geran, with the prospect of a hometown victory providing plenty of encouragement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s always a really good week up here, something we look forward to sort of every year,\u201d Corey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Weetwood and Toowoomba Cup have been races that we target – they’re obviously hard to win, but being in your hometown is always going to be something that you want to achieve.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve been trying and we’ve had runners in the Toowoomba Cup for the last four years consecutively now and we’ve been runner up the last two.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning cups has always been a bit of a thrill for me and thrill for us, and the hometown Cup is one we’re yet to check off, so it would mean a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is one of the best weeks on the calendar for the Geran stable with their home track…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-449378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115262631724638425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}