He almost ran himself into the outside wall again but
Nangar Jet ($2.70
Nangar Jet got out strongly, as expected, from box seven but had early competition from Opal King towards the inside.
Greyhounds Hartley Hobby and Wolf Taro ($9.30) made their presence felt along the rail as they caught the leaders on the turn for home.
Midway through the turn Hartley Hobby drifted wide and took Opal King and herself out of the running. That left Wolf Taro as the sole challenger to
Nangar Jet drifted within reaching
Coyte’s runner held on by half a length to make it two wins in a row.
Bonnie O’Reilly ($6.40) finished well to take third.
Nangar Jet is no stranger to running from out wide. “It’s just what he does. He nearly hit the 500m boxes at Dubbo and he got within a foot of them here. I strapped his wrist because I thought that might bring him in but it hasn’t,” Coyte said.
“I’ll try and over the 400m in a couple of weeks. He had a bad shoulder, so I had to give him a week off and he was back at 300m today.
Hopefully, he’ll come around the turn a bit better.”
* This article originally appeared in the Western Advocate - photo credit: Chris Seabrook