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By Neil Evans
January 14, 2026 — 5.11pm
If good things come to those who wait, connections of a tough home-track four-year-old are rubbing their hands together ahead of Thursday’s meeting on the Beaumont track.
The Newcastle Jockey Club’s first program of 2026 has attracted a swag of metropolitan-based runners who are set to grab a major slice of the money, but Iron Fury can repel the city slickers and finally nab a second career win, and his first in NSW.
Newcastle trainer Nathan Doyle.Credit: Getty
In early April last year when having just his second start, Iron Fury cruised home in country Victoria to open his account.
He had two more runs for the Mick Price-Michael Kent Jnr yard before crossing the border, and setting up camp with Nathan Doyle in Newcastle.
Given plenty of time before two easy trials, the son of Russian Revolution resumed with an encouraging placing in a handy Class 1 in Newcastle last October.
But try as he might in four subsequent runs, Iron Fury kept finding one or two better, often without much luck in the run.
Yet he has closed off well in his last two runs at Gosford, beating all but a pair of smart winners from the Kim Waugh stable at Wyong.
Now from a softer draw, Iron Fury is ideally placed to snap the long wait in a CL1 handicap over 1150m.
He opened around $3.60 in early betting narrowly ahead of intriguing runner Ferinzo ($3.90) who returns for his first outing in 18 months for the Jake Hull stable at Gosford.
Marked on the third line of betting around $5.50 was local three-year-old Steel Knight – part-owned by three members of the Newcastle Knights NRL side, Bradman Best, Jacob Saifiti and Matt Croker, as well as former Knights Daniel Saifiti and Adam Elliott.
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The Doyle stable, as well as jockey Ashley Morgan, will be eyeing off a race-to-race double when promising three-year-old Heroic Deed tries to make it two from two in a Class 1 handicap over 1250m.
A son of Golden Slipper winner Farnan, Heroic Deed impressed on debut running over the top of a handy field at this track, including heavily backed Mega Pixel who went off a raging $1.45 favourite.
Heroic Deed clocked his last 600m in a slick 33.47 secs, considerably quicker than two other 1150m races that day.
He opened around $3.70 in early betting behind the Kris Lees-trained Herman Said, who is fourth-up and at $3.30.
Another winning sequence goes on the line in the final race – BM 64 Hcp (1350m) for the fillies and mares – when exciting Randwick three-year-old Siebert attempts to make it three straight wins this campaign for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable.
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