Jason Collett’s winning form is set to continue at Wyong on Tuesday with a small but select book of rides awaiting the jockey.

Collett scored a feature double at Randwick on Saturday when Semana and Kimochi both won and he links with trainers Annabel Neasham and Ciaron Maher at Wyong.

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Summer Soiree will be Collett’s ride for Neasham in the Insurance House F&M Maiden Handicap (1100m), and he will partner Never Joking in the Commsys C, G & E Maiden Handicap (1100m) and Paruna in the Levelmaster Maiden Plate (1300m) for Maher.

Summer Soiree is on debut and has had two trials to prepare, winning the latest of them at Randwick.

Never Joking is first-up from a spell, having made his debut at Pakenham last May when finishing fifth. He ran second in a recent Gosford trial. Collett rode Paruna in its only start when it finished fourth on the Kensington track at Randwick last month.

“He ran well in that race,” Collett said. “He led them up and fought on pretty well to be only beaten a couple of lengths.

“He should have derived benefit from the experience and I’d expect him to run very well at Wyong.”

The Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou training partnership will have a few interesting runners at Wyong, starting with Lady Doris, which lines up against Summer Soiree. Lady Doris debuted at Goulburn with a solid second, and Kerrin McEvoy takes the ride at Wyong.

Nibidano, also to be ridden by McEvoy, will line up in Never Joking’s event and is resuming from a lengthy spell. Nibidano had its only start in November 2022, finishing ninth at Hawkesbury.
He had a couple of trials early last year but never made it to the races, and has since returned to the stables and had a further two trials this year.