Albury trainer Jodie Bohr targeting first Sydney win with Footmark

The race is only open for country horses and is a restricted Class 3.

The seven-year-old was originally nominated for races at both Randwick and his home track, but a smaller field pushed Bohr to the $75,000 event after drawing barrier 16.

“They’re only starting 11, so we decided it’s going to be a slower track, so we’ll take him up there, so it’s not as bad as 16,” she said.

“He’ll just look to sit back and just comes home.”

Bohr was the first female rider to win at Warwick Farm on Fun’s A Fortune in 1983, but that elusive Sydney win still eludes her after 19 years of training, with a third place her best result.

Footmark is coming off two successive wins at Albury and has six placings in his 11 starts, with Brendan Ward riding both the Border triumphs.

Jockey Andrew Adkins will take over at the metropolitan track.

“He gets ridden half the time by my partner on the farm and the rest of the time by my daughters,” Bohr said.

“He does a lot of work on the farm, he doesn’t deal with mainstream training.”

“Footmark would not have made it back to racing without the two years of patient rehabilitation from half-owner Ross Spalding.”

It’s a horse-loving family with daughter Hollee Bohr-Howell an apprentice jockey.

“Just to hold her own really,” Bohr said when asked what tip she gives the 19-year-old.

“She watches a lot of videos, she’s good like that and she’s grown up riding trackwork.

“She had her first trial at Albury two weeks ago and she’ll trial again on Saturday.”

Bohr-Howell will ride All Kitted Out in Saturday’s trial.

Apprentice jockeys are required to complete 25 trials before they’re allowed to contest a race.

Her grandfather Trevor was also a trainer.

“I’ve got a couple of dad’s horses in at the moment,” Bohr said.

While her focus will be on Sydney, Bohr also a runner at Albury.

Dashing ‘n’ Daring will contest a maiden over 1175m.

Bohr-Howell piloted the four-year-old in a trial at Albury’s last meet on October 13 following a six-month spell, where he finished 11^th at Wagga.

Dashing ‘n’ Daring boasts just the one third placing – at Albury in March.

Blaike McDougall will ride the horse in his fifth start, with a handful of other home contenders, including Kym Davison’s Music Writer, searching for that confidence-building first win.