A horse bought by a group of Australian cricketers to honour late teammate Phillip Hughes has won on debut.<\/p>\n
Never Out<\/strong> (Star Witness x Jesterchine), trained by Kim Waugh whose husband Mark played 128 Tests for Australia and is now a national selector, won a 1000m maiden at Gosford on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The three-year-old filly’s ownership includes Mitch and Shaun Marsh who played in Australia’s recent defeat by South Africa in the first Test in Perth, as well as white-ball specialists Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch.<\/p>\n Former Test players Greg Blewett and Ryan Harris also have a share along with national coach Darren Lehmann’s wife Andrea and broadcaster Alan Jones.<\/p>\n The horse was named Never Out as a tribute to Hughes who died after he was hit by a ball while 63 not out in a Sheffield Shield match in November 2014.<\/p>\n “We bought the horse in memory of Phillip Hughes,” Mark Waugh told Sky Thoroughbred Central.<\/p>\n “We got together to all buy a horse because he used to love horse racing so she might have had a bit of help today.<\/p>\n “I just spoke to Darren Lehmann when she went across the line so it was a good win.”<\/p>\n Waugh said Never Out had shown promise as a juvenile but a setback had delayed the start of her career.<\/p>\n “She had a bad accident in the paddock. She lost half her foot at one stage so that’s why she’s been in and out for so long,” Waugh said.<\/p>\n “She’s out of a fast mare so I think she’s got more to come.”<\/p>\n A $57,500 Inglis Classic purchase from the draft of Amarina Farm, Never Out is the fifth winner from stakes-placed Rory’s Jester mare Jesterchine.<\/p>\n -AAP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A horse bought by a group of Australian cricketers to honour late teammate Phillip Hughes has won on debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Never-Out.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16761,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759\/revisions\/16761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}