At Wednesday’s Highway meeting at Warwick Farm, former SA-based Sydney trainer David Payne inflicted a A$156 running double on punters in the opening two events and, job done, packed up and went home.
David Payne – a major success in Australia
While the winner of the first race was A$26 rank outsider Costello in a field of five, the second of Payne’s twin-pronged attack was a horse who should never have been allowed to start at A$6.00.
Beaten only 2.6-lengths behind short-priced Golden Slipper aspirant McLaren recently in the Gr3 Canonbury Stakes, Deep Chill had finished just out of the placings on debut behind Castelvecchio who followed up with victory in the $2 million Inglis 2YO Millennium.
Asked after Deep Chill’s maiden win if he might head to the Slipper, Payne suggested the 1200m would be too sharp, and that the beautifully-bred son of Wandjina and Gr1 winner Eskimo Queen is far more of an Inglis Sires and Champagne style of horse.
Trainer of 107 Gr1 Winners, David Payne moved to Australia from South Africa in 2002, without any horses, wanting to make a new start.
Since then he has become one of the most respected trainers in the tough Sydney market and has in the past held a position in the top 5 metropolitan trainers.
