It was almost three years ago when Ta In Advance fractured his offside hind pastern during an event in which he finished third at Wagin.
He underwent surgery when five screws were inserted in his leg --- and they were still in place when he won the $21,000 Trusted Asbestos Removal WA Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
The win by the seven-year-old Ta In Advance as the $5 second favourite gave his breeder, part-owner and trainer Kaiden Hayter his first metro-class success since he trained and drove Hoiho to win by a head from While They Pray at Gloucester Park on February 14, 2020.
This gave the 34-year-old Hayter his 63rd victory as a trainer. A mechanic by trade, he is the workshop foreman at a car yard in Bunbury, and he has a team of two pacers in work, Ta In Advance and that pacer’s unraced two-year-old brother, a colt by former smart pacer Wesley.
Hayter races Ta In Advance in partnership with his wife Kate, his parents Sharon and Mick, and his cousins Heath and Liam Stewart. Ta In Advance is the most successful pacer raced by Hayter, and the gelding is the first horse bred by him and his parents.
“We bought the dam Ta For Mumma, an untried two-year-old, from Bob Mellsop for $5000,” said Hayter. “She won a few races but had chronic hock issues and we had to retire her early (with earnings of $23,992 from five wins and five placings from 24 starts).”
Ta For Mumma’s dam Uma Tada was a good performer who raced 46 times for 12 wins, 16 placings and $85,291 in stakes. Ta In Advance now has earned $71,818 from seven wins and 21 placings from 65 starts.
Eleven days before Friday night’s success Ta In Advance ended a losing sequence of 23 when Emily Suvaljko drove him to a very easy win in a female invitation event at Pinjarra in which drivers were selected in a ballot.
Hayter rewarded Suvaljko for her winning drive by engaging her to handle the gelding again on Friday night. “I’ve now got a hundred per cent record with Kaiden, two drives for two wins,” beamed Suvaljko.
