When the eight-year-old Summerdays saluted at Globe Derby Park last Saturday week it brought up win number 14 for the Village Jolt mare.
Eight of those wins along with 13 minor placings were achieved last season.
Summerdays has made a winning start to 2024-25 season with three wins and three placings from six starts.
In her latest run last Saturday night at Globe Derby she ran a bold second at big odds.
She had won successive races on January 13 and 18 at Globe Derby.
After Summerdays’ latest win, Greg and son Rodney had a winner two days later, also at Globe Derby, with pacer Pre Nut, a lightly-raced four-year-old mare by Follow The Stars who has now won two of 10 starts.
Summerdays and Pre Nut are trained in South Australia by husband and wife team Ingrid and David Smith.
It was a big week for the Caldwell family with Greg’s younger brother Neil producing the trotting mare Madge Egan to win at last week’s Bendigo meeting.
The win broke two droughts.
It was Madge Egan’s first win at her 23rd try and it was the trainer-driver’s first win for 20 years.
‘‘My last winner was a pacer called Metrocom who won three races and had his last win at an Echuca meeting. But I have only trained one to two at a time and there have been years when I haven’t trained any,’’ Caldwell, who will line up the mare for her next start tomorrow at Kilmore, said.
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