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Trainer Fred Kersley with Marasco at Moonee Valley before the 2007 Tatts Cox Plate.

Kersley and the Railway

words by DANNY POWER

Fred Kersley knows what it takes to win the Group 1 Carlton Draught Railway Stakes (1600m) at Ascot. When the great Northerly (B g 1996, Serheed (USA) - North Belle, by Bellwater (FR)) won the Railway in 2000, Kersley, a champion harness racing trainer and driver, not only achieved a life-long ambition to train a thoroughbred Group 1 winner, but also started an amazing racing journey for this famous horseman, his family and their wonder horse.

The Railway Stakes win launched Northerly towards the Melbourne autumn carnival in 2001, which culminated in Northerly winning the Group 1 Australian Cup (WFA 2000m). He returned to Melbourne in the spring to win the Group 1 Cox Plate (WFA 2040m) at Moonee Valley (he again won the Cox Plate in 2002, after winning the Caulfield Cup a week earlier).

A year later, Old Comrade (Br g 1997, Old Spice-Belgravia, by Ksar (GB)) completed the same Railway Stakes-Australian Cup double when he beat Northerly in the Australian Cup at Flemington. Northerly won the Australian Cup for the second time in 2003 running a record.

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