Wedding Vow's bright future for Edwards

By Glenn Davis

Deagon trainer Jason Edwards predicts a bright future for lightly raced mare Wedding Vow and is confident she can make it back-to-back wins at Doomben on Wednesday.
 
Wedding Vow has won two of her five starts and produced a stunning performance to narrowly win a 1690 metre Class 1 Handicap at Ipswich last month.
 
A four-year-old daughter of Dundeel, Wedding Vow was bought for a song off trainer Paul Messara by Edwards’ close friend Ash Kucks.
 
Kucks is a builder by trade, but works twice a week at Edwards’ stables.

“Ash has been one of my long-time clients and he wanted to buy a horse online, but didn’t have much to spend,” Edwards said.

“He managed to get Wedding Vow for $4,000 after she had trialled three times for Messara and didn’t do much.

“As she’s by Dundeel, I thought the $4,000 was well spent as she’s probably worth that alone as a broodmare.

“She was very plain looking when she first arrived at my stables after she had three barrier trials down south and was very disappointing.”

It didn’t take Wedding Vow long to recoup her purchase price when she saluted at her second start for Edwards in a maiden at Ipswich in May.
 
Wedding Vow notched up win number two at her fifth start for Edwards when she narrowly won her last start at Ipswich.

“It was a super win as she came from last and circled the field,” Edwards said.

“The winning margin wasn’t big, but she was very dominant.”

Edwards has stuck with winning apprentice Emily Pozman to partner Wedding Vow in her bid for a city breakthrough.
 
He also believes Wedding Vow has the potential to run 2000 metres and will gradually step her up in distance this campaign.
 
Edwards has been training for 12 years at Deagon and has recently culled his stable numbers to 14.

“It’s probably a bit low at the moment, but the aim is to get better quality as we build up again,” he said.

Meanwhile, Edwards is looking forward to the return of his star mare Margot’s Deel, who hasn’t raced since winning a 1600 metre Class 3 Plate at Eagle Farm in July.

A four-time winner from 14 starts, Margot’s Deel will make her comeback in the Listed Tattersall’s Classic at Doomben on November 28.
 
Edwards has ridden the highs and lows of training in recent times after losing the highly rated Alpha Sofie interstate last year.