For Annabel Neasham, learning to fly is a good way to describe her fledgling career as a racehorse trainer. It’s also the name of the filly she hopes will bring a “first major” with victory in the $5 million Golden Slipper on Saturday.
Horse trainer Annabel Neasham: ‘I just got my head down, worked hard and more and more doors opened’.“I just wanted to come and get experience out here,” said Neasham on Friday. “I never planned to become a trainer out here, it’s just the way things happened. After six months with Waterhouse, she linked with Ciaron Maher – the co-trainer of 2022 Melbourne Cup winner Gold Trip – and was with him four years before striking out on her own.“It was hope and dream that you’re going to end up in all the big races, be a regular on a Saturday in the metropolitan areas. Whether it happens is obviously a different matter, but I never really doubted myself in that sense.