ANDREW O’TOOLE

Gary Clarke, on the verge of his 12th successive Top End trainer’s premiership, provided the quinella in the $50,000 TAB Metric Mile with Wolfburn and Pink Panther at Fannie Bay on Saturday.

The master trainer also picked up his fourth Carnival Day 5 feature – he had previously won the Metric Mile with Austpak (2007), Java (2018) and Savatoxl (2020) – and he will head towards the Great Northern Darwin Cup with a strong three-pronged attack on the first prize of 132,000.

Wolfburn, with regular rider Jarrod Todd in the saddle, began well in the Metric Mile, led into the first turn but was soon joined and headed by last year’s winner He’s The Ultimate.

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