GREEN "KICKS" AN IMPORTANT GOAL OF HIS OWN

WEDNESDAY: July 2, 2025: PETER Green “kicked” an important goal of his own at Warwick Farm today.

The versatile Hawkesbury horseman trained his first city winner when Killer Kerr, a daughter of Shooting To Win and aptly-named after Matildas soccer star Sam Kerr, landed the Benchmark 64 Handicap (1200m) at $10.

Louise Day took full advantage of an opening on the rails after straightening, and Killer Kerr surged from last on the turn in the field of seven to defeat Honey Perfume ($5.50) and Vermicella ($4.40).

“I’m over the moon to get my first city winner in town,” Green said this evening.

“It wasn’t a Saturday, but a Wednesday will do fine.”

That was a reference to not being able to secure a start with Killer Kerr in a Midway Benchmark 72 Handicap (1300m) at Rosehill Gardens last Saturday.

Killer Kerr was second reserve and needed one more scratching to make the field.

“I would have run her last Saturday, but this is a pretty good consolation,” Green said.

“I haven’t had many city runners, and it’s fantastic to be able to win one in town.”

It’s been a special couple of days for Green, who also drives pacers and won a race at Penrith yesterday on Rogervalerio Lombo, who came off the second row to score at $11.

Green was successful at Menangle on June 24 on Dancing With My Ex ($6) for Rogervalerio Lombo’s trainer Malcolm Smith.

The Hawkesbury trainer, who has nine horses in work, has an interest in all three racing codes, as he and his wife Lauren race a couple of greyhounds with trainer Craig Pollard, who was at Warwick Farm to join Green cheer his mare home.

Green and his brother Clint paid $6500 for Killer Kerr at the 2021 Inglis HTBA yearling sale, and she has now won four races (along with nine placings) and earned nearly $150,000.

Green paid credit to jockey Grant Buckley, who rides Killer Kerr trackwork – but it is the “girls” who have the key to her when it comes to racedays.

Both Louise Day and Robyn Freeman have each won two races on her.

“Bucko (Grant Buckley) does a terrific job working Killer Kerr, and has ridden her in races (placed on five occasions), and it was he who suggested I should keep the ladies on her in races,” Green said.

“We have found the key to Killer Kerr by allowing her to settle in her races, and she has really struck form at her last few runs.

“Louise walked the track beforehand and said it was even throughout, so I left it to her to ride the race as best she saw it.”

. HOOFNOTE: Killer Kerr has a number of owners initially involved with racing Green’s good mare Star Mission, who won three provincial races and was narrowly beaten in a Midway Benchmark 72 Handicap (1500m) at Rosehill in March 2023.

Unfortunately, the mare died suddenly from an anaphylactic shock (a severe allergic reaction to an antibiotic) in August 2023.

Killer Kerr had not won but was placed at five of her first eight starts at the time of Star Mission’s death.

“As many of Star Mission’s owners were newcomers and a number of them good mates with my brother Clint through playing soccer, we gave them an opportunity to come in to the syndicate at a small fee, and quite a few got involved,” Green explained.

“We just wanted to repay their loyalty by giving them the chance to race a nice horse who had shown ability from early on.”