LAVA FLOW finally got it right when he won the 2016 edition of the Zimbabwe National Army Charity horse race with Keagan de Melo on the straps on Sunday.
 
Fielding only 16 Borrowdale Park runners between them,Penny Fisher and Kirk Swanson came up trumps, saddling four of Sunday’s seven winners.
 
The Fisher yard won the feature race, the 1800m ZNA Charity Handicap, with Lava Flow, and also sent out the second horse, Call Me Earl in the same race as Print The Pounds, Newton Power and Eurakilon followed.
 
The son of Western Winter (USA) is owned by Gengiz Goksel and was in top form on Sunday winning by 2.50 lens ahead of Call Me Earl.
 
For the efforts the partners went home $4 800 rich as Call Me Earl pocketed 41 600 while third place occupuied by Print the Pounds saw them $1 000 richer.
 
For finishing fourth Newton Power and partner won $600 for their efforts.
 
Kevin Barry, also from the Fisher stable, was an easy winner of the MR 70 Handicap, franking his equally decisive victory at the previous meeting in a 1700m Maiden Plate.
 
Bred by the Spotted Pig Stud in Zimbabwe and by Horse Chestnut, Kevin Barry is one to follow.

Kirk Swanson’s runner, Haga Haga, disappointed his supporters, finishing third, behind Devil In Command (second).