IN more than 20 years of racing with the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club, Chris Barwick has seen many of his contemporaries win two races in a single season but the same feat had always eluded the 342-race veteran.
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Free from the nagging injuries that have denied him in the past, the drought ended for Barwick when he scored a narrow win in the Garry and Pauline Jenkins-sponsored 10-kilometre handicap at Ararat on Sunday, just five starts after winning at Rhymney Reef.
No less than seven previous winners of the Jenkins lined up in chilly conditions for the race.
Fast and flat and a real “horses for courses” race that suits some more than others, Barwick was one of only three runners to have won six of the last eight runnings of the race. Barwick’s winning margin of just seven seconds prevented a weekend double for Lofthouse, after he won an eight-kilometre race at Rupanyup 24 hours before.
The Peter Gibson eight-kilometre handicap on Sunday is at Ararat’s Dunneworthy Common.
