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MansfieldUpdated June 13 2018 - 4:41pm, first published 1:12pmBy Greg MansfieldUpdated June 13 2018 - 4:41pm, first published 1:12pmFacebookTwitterWhatsappEmailCopy In-form Tasmanian

galloper Concentrate will attempt to complete a hat-trick of wins when he returns to Geelong on Friday.

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topweight of 60.5kg in a benchmark 70 race over 1300m on the synthetic track.

Cressy trainer Cameron Thompson decided to take the gelding back to Victoria after he won successive races at Mowbray and Spreyton in April/May.

Thompson had success with Concentrate on a previous visit, winning a benchmark 64 at Benalla last September.

Concentrate finished that three-start Victorian campaign with a close fifth in the $40,000 Dual Choice Plate at Geelong.

VICTORIAN TRIP: Concentrate, ridden by Hayley McCarthy, charges home to win at Spreyton last month. The gelding will have his next start at Geelong on Friday. Picture: Greg Mansfield The

six-year-old has had three runs this preparation and Thompson believes he is back to his best – both physically and mentally.

“He’s back in the same frame of mind as when we got him,” the trainer said.

Concentrate won three of his first five starts for Thompson in late 2016.

Hayley McCarthy, who has ridden the gelding to his past two wins, will accompany him to Geelong where she will be having her first ride in Victoria.

McCarthy’s only previous interstate rides have been at Eagle Farm and Murray Bridge.

TALENTED junior driver Hannah Van Dongen has had her chances of winning the female drivers’ premiership dented by an eight-meeting suspension.

Stewards charged Von Dongen with failing to give Tarleton Riley the best possible chance of winning at Mowbray last Sunday.

The particulars of the charge were that she persisted for too long in challenging the leader Smilin Geoff during the first half of the race.

Tarleton Riley then weakened to finish last, beaten 63 metres.

Van Dongen, who pleaded not guilty, leads the female drivers’ premiership with nine wins for the season.

LEADING trainer Scott Brunton’s one-man protest against the Spreyton track will continue on Sunday.

Brunton, whose dislike of the synthetic surface is well known, again has no runners at the meeting.

He had only one runner at Devonport on May 6 and has not been represented at the past two meetings.

The trainer still has an unbeatable lead on this season’s premiership with 64 wins to nearest rival John Blacker’s 43.

For the record, he has won 35 races in Hobart, 23 in Launceston, five at Spreyton and one at Longford.

However to put those figures in perspective, he has had far more runners on the grass tracks.

His winning strike-rate at Spreyton is 22 per cent – better than both Hobart (20 pc) and Launceston (17 pc).

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