"Team Geran" hope for big day out at Chinchilla

By Glenn Davis

The mother and son training partnership of Kylie and Corey Geran’s proven record with tried horses will be put to the test when the stable heads to a rare TAB mid-week meeting at Chinchilla on Tuesday.

"Team Geran" have a big team of starters lining up across the seven event program and all bar one – Jack Be Lucky in the Class 3 Plate - started their careers with other stables.

Their other starters are Shotgun Sixtyfour in the QTIS Maiden Handicap, Vinasta in the Open Handicap, Torbeck in the Benchmark 65 Handicap and Perfect Legacy in the Benchmark 50  Handicap.

Corey Geran rates Jack Be Lucky as the stable’s best hope and also expects a strong showing from Vinasta.

Jack Be Lucky is third-up from a spell and is coming off a last start second in an 1100 metre Class 4 event at Toowoomba on April 29 while Vinasta has won two of her past four starts.

“We’ve had Jack Be Lucky all through his career and he’s won three times for us and has drawn the rails so he looks our best chance at Chinchilla,” Corey said.

“Vinasta is also a great chance after she won the Dalby Cup two starts back before we took her to Bundaberg for her last run when she was just beaten.

“Vinasta has won eight races and about $200,000 in prize money for us since we bought her online from Tony Gollan as a Class 2 horse.”

Corey has been back training with his mother for three years at Toowoomba following a stint on the Sunshine Coast.

The pair have since trained several winners in the metropolitan area while building their stable numbers up to 47 in work at Toowoomba.

Corey lived at the Sunshine Coast for seven years while he attended university and gained a business degree.

However, the racing bug soon took hold so he started his training career after working as a foreman for John and Sheila Laxon at Caloundra.

It was a natural progression for the 27-year-old who was brought up around horses all his life as his father is well-known Toowoomba jockey Gary Geran.

Gary Geran still rides but has been sidelined with a broken foot after a Toowoomba mishap and is expected to return to riding soon.