Racing
Kilcoy Friday - Small start to bigger things
Rookie trainer Laura Anderson may be in the infancy of her training career, but from little things, big things grow.
Anderson has been training just short of two years after moving from Victoria where she started off as an apprentice rider.
Now based at a property at Mount Beppo in the Somerset region near Esk, Anderson has a small team of six horses in work and often takes her team to the Sunshine Coast for fast work.
The 34-year-old trained her first winner when Frodash won a maiden at Eidsvold last April, about a four-hour trip from her Mount Beppo base.
It was another eight months and 22 starts before Anderson notched up her second career win when Je Reve saluted in another Maiden Handicap at Kilcoy on December 19.
Je Reve is French for "I Dream" which Anderson will do when the former Sydney sprinter heads back to Kilcoy on Friday for the Class One Handicap over 1200 metres.
Je Reve is the only runner Anderson is taking to Kilcoy and has booked regular rider Adam Sewell to again partner the five-year-old.
A son of Capitalist, Je Reve was given to Anderson as a "freebie" after placing four times in six starts last year for the training partnership of Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou.
"He showed promise early on but he only started a few times in Sydney before they realised, he wasn't up to the grade there," Anderson said.
"He then went to Daryl Dodson in South Australia and his owner Kevin Wasy from Glendeagles Stud in Victoria eventually gave him to me for nothing.
"I've only trained two winners so far but we're yet to see the best from Je Reve.
"I've finally work him out and I think he's about to begin a nice career here."
Anderson revealed she made her move to Queensland as land prices were much cheaper in the Sunshine State than in Victoria.
"I was an apprentice in Victoria but never rode as a senior before I went to America when I was 18 and stayed for three years," she said.
"I then went to Peter Snowden in Sydney for 12 months before going back to work in Europe.
"I was on and off going overseas before I came back to work for Ron Quinton in Sydney then I did some time with Gai Waterhouse.
"I always wanted to train myself and the end goal for me was to buy land so I could train."
Anderson has a 40-acre property Mount Beppo which has an 800-metre sand track and a 1200-metre grass training track.
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