Lombo Pocket Watch

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Lombo Pocket Watch

Sire:	Jet Laag
Dam:	Misty Maiden
Broodmare Sire:	Windshield Wiper
Sex:	Colt
Foaled:	October 16, 2003
Country:	Australia
Colour:	Grey
Breeder:	Lombo Standardbreds
Owner:	Lombo Standardbreds
Trainers:	Greame Tindale, Paul Fitzpatrick
Record:	23:21-0-1
Fastest Mile Rate:	At 2: 1:56.9 At 3: 1:57.6
Prizemoney:	$826,375
Group One Wins
2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2007	Bathurst Gold Crown 2 Year Old Australian Pacing Gold Kevin Seymour Nursey 2 Year Old Pacing Vicbred Super Series 2 Year Old Pacing Australasian Breeders Crown 3 Year Old Australian Pacing Gold Victoria Derby
*Correct as at 3rd February, 2007
**Currently Racing

Lombo Pocket Watch is a grey harness racing colt, gaited a pacer he was foaled 16 October 2003. Nicknamed The Grey Bullet.

Lombo Pocket Watch was bred, and is currently owned by Mick Lombardo.

1 Racing
- 1.1 2 Year Old Season (2005-2006)
- 1.2 3 Year Old Season (2006-2007)
2 References

[edit] Racing

[edit] 2 Year Old Season (2005-2006)

In his 2 year old season he won 17 races from 18 starts, his only failure a race in which his gear broke and driver Chris Lewis pulled him out of the race.

After starting his career in Western Australia, he moved to the stable of Paul Fitzpatrick and since and successfully completed his next 15 assignments.

His wins include the NSW Sapling Stakes, the Linden Huntely Memorial, the Bathurst Gold Crown, the Australian Pacing Gold, the Kevin Seymour Nursery, the Vicbred Super Series and the Australiasian Breeders Crown. This includes 5 Group 1 events and $642,375 in prize money.

His effort in the Australiasian Breeders Crown final^[1] named him the best 2 year old ever in Australasia and netted him the 2006 Australian Harness horse of the Year award.^[2]

[edit] 3 Year Old Season (2006-2007)

Lombo Pocket Watch opened his 3 year old season at Moonee Valley with a win in a heat of the Australian Pacing Gold series and proceeded to win the Group 1 final comfortably.

His next assignment was the Group 2 Victorian Sires Classic in which he held off a fast finishing Lively Exit to extend is unbeaten streak to 19 wins in a row.

In his heat of the Victoria Derby Lombo Pocket Watch drew the outside of the back row in the 2100 metre race. After moving around the field to sit outside the leader in the death seat, he was unable to overcome the leader and eventual winner, Twelve Paces, a colt that had previously come within a head of beating him. On that occasion Lombo Pocket Watch was successful as Twelve Paces raced greenly and didn't run straight. For the first time in his career he didn't win a race in which he completed, and registered his first placing. Although he did not salute the judge, he qualified for the $150,000 Group 1 Alabar Victoria Derby, in which he drew barrier 3 and his major rivals drew the back row. Stablemate Lombo Mandingo crossed him at the start but Gavin Fitzpatrick easily went around and lead. From there it was a formality and he raced away to win by 9.3m in a mile rate of 1.59.2 with a last 800m of the 2575m event in 57.2

Lombo Pocket Watch then crossed the Tasman to New Zealand and to Alexandra Park in Auckland to contest the Great Northern Derby, along with stablemate Lombo Mandingo. He faced many challenges in his attempt to claim the prize, from the long flight over to the clockwise direction of racing at Alexandra Park. Despite this Lombo Pocket Watch was a warm early favorite to win the event before the qualifiers, held a week earlier. His poor performance and subsequent finishing position of fourth lead to his blowout from even money to around the six dollar mark. Although he drew the inside of the back row in the final he was able to follow through and eventually get off the pegs with over a lap to run in the final. Heading his stablemate with a lap to run and being challenged by Gotta Go Cullen, Lombo Pocket Watch looked the winner as they entered the straight but was overhauled in the last 100 metres by Changeover and eventaully finished second.