Faithfull lands two more winners at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club
Faithfull opened the seven-event card with victory aboard the Stephanie Bakranich-trained Stryker's Gal ($2.50 favourite).
She followed-up in the next race with Think Lika Winner ($3.50), for trainer Ted Martinovich.
It boosted her season tally at the KBRC to 10 points — three clear of Lucy Fiore, who scored with the Peter Fernie-trained On Just Terms ($6) in the last race of the day.
Also on Sunday, Helen Harding runner Ultimate Paradise (Zephen Johnston-Porter) won at $31 over 1200m.
Harding is second, behind Fernie, for trainer of the year.
Action at the KBRC resumes on June 15.
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- West Australian
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- West Australian
EDITORIAL: Retiring Dom Sheed has his spot in AFL history secured
It's a good problem to have. But there's a touch of unfairness to the fact that retiring West Coast Eagle Dom Sheed will be remembered by fans primarily for a single kick. A spectacular one, certainly. One made with the weight of a premiership on his shoulders. But one he managed to make look easy, despite the tightness of the angle and the magnitude of the occasion. Sheed's drop punt from the boundary to secure the 2018 grand final for the Eagles — made with just two minutes left on the clock — is already part of AFL folklore. And Sheed one of the game's legends. Even if you're not a West Coast fan, you can likely replay the moment in your mind, so ubiquitous has it become. The cost of being part of such an iconic moment is that it tends to overshadow everything else; the years of hard graft that came before and after. As Sheed on Tuesday announced his retirement from the club he has represented since he was drafted as an 18-year-old kid from Kalgoorlie in 2013, that kick was at the front of his mind, as it was everyone else's. It says much about the man's character that he confessed he has mixed feelings about being at the centre of such an iconic moment. 'There's a level of guilt that comes with it,' Sheed said. 'When people talk about that game, they talk about that kick a lot. 'It takes a lot of people to be able to make a grand final, to be able to win one, and I was a beneficiary of what was, in my eyes, one of the greatest grand finals ever.' In a lot of other West Australians' eyes too. Has there been a single moment of greater sheer delirium in our State? 'It wasn't until after we won the grand final, (seeing) how much joy and happiness you can bring other people,' Sheed said. 'And that was really special for me, to actually bring happiness to others.' Unfortunately, Sheed's final seasons have been marred by injuries. He has only played 24 games of senior footy since 2022. 'My body hasn't been able to hold up. I felt like, mentally, I probably had more to give, but physically, absolutely not,' he said. 'I worked extremely hard to try and get back. And I've pondered this decision for a while, and it's definitely the right one.' So the now-30-year-old has called time on a career having spent more than a third of his life at the Eagles. He'll always be an Eagle, as a premiership player and a club life member. There can be few more deserving of the honour. He's been there through it all: the very highest of the highs, as well as some of the lower points of the club's history. As Sheed said on Monday, it's been a hell of a journey. Throughout his career, he has had two goals. 'I am a pretty simple bloke. I wanted to be someone who trained hard and was a good bloke'. Job done.
ABC News
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- ABC News
The Dom Sheed goal was one of West Coast and the AFL's greatest moments, but it nearly never happened
Here's one for you. Would you rather play out a 300-game AFL career with multiple All Australians, best and fairests and universal acclaim, or enjoy a solid career that features one glorious, iconic, premiership-winning highlight? Perhaps we can call it the Dom Sheed Paradox. For as good a player as Sheed was in his prime, his name will forever be tied to one kick, one moment that will endure long beyond any other memory from his 165-game career. The winning goal in the 2018 grand final, in which West Coast beat Collingwood by five points, is Sheed's ticket to AFL immortality. No matter who you support, you've seen it enough times to have it burned in your memory — the momentary hush as Sheed composes himself, the bellows of support and derision flying his way from over the fence, the sublime balance of the left-footed drop punt and the unerring flight of the ball piercing the goal's narrowed gap. There have been few moments in footy this century more inspiring, more significant, and more difficult. As Brian Taylor's call for Channel Seven described, Sheed needed to be inch perfect, and was. But it's a moment that nearly never happened. The amount of things that needed to fall into place to put Sheed on that field, let alone in that spot, let alone at the end of that play stands as a reminder of how fine these lines are in sport. A butterfly flaps its wings, Collingwood loses another grand final and Dom Sheed is presented the keys to Kalgoorlie. For starters, Sheed was only in the West Coast side at that point of the season because Andrew Gaff wasn't. Gaff, who was All Australian in 2018 and among the Brownlow fancies late in the year, was in the midst of a suspension for the punch that shattered Andrew Brayshaw's jaw. Sheed had been dropped for that game, a Western Derby in round 20, after an inconsistent season to that point. Had Gaff not copped his eight-week ban, ruling him out for the rest of the season, Sheed would have struggled to break into an otherwise settled Eagles midfield that had no obvious place for him. To his credit, Sheed played some of the best footy of his career over the next two months, helped inspire the Eagles' September run and ended up sharing West Coast's player of the finals award with Jack Redden. Fast forward to grand final day, and having trailed by the best part of five goals in the first quarter, West Coast had pulled itself briefly in front and now narrowly behind with the clock ticking down. Sheed had again been among the Eagles' best during the head-spinning game, but was two minutes away from ending it on the losing side. As Collingwood launched a foray forward, with Adam Treloar preparing for a fateful kick in the direction of Jeremy McGovern, Sheed was supposed to be off the field. His number had come up for a rotation, and he was meant to be headed for the bench. Instead, midfielder Sheed decided to hide out the back of the play near the Eagles' forward line, not wanting to miss the closing stages of the biggest game of his life. At almost the exact same moment Will Schofield, in what has become the defender's favourite post-career yarn to spin, went on a glory run up the middle of the MCG and ended up wildly out of position when the Eagles turned the ball over. It meant McGovern had to cover Schofield's man, Jordan De Goey, putting the star intercepter in the perfect spot at the perfect time to take a towering mark. Via Nathan Vardy and Liam Ryan, the ball made its way to Sheed's hands in the forward pocket at the Punt Road End of the MCG. At this point of the retelling, if you listen closely, you can hear a Collingwood fan somewhere off in the distance bellowing out a well-worn refrain. "Maynard," you see, "was blocked". And maybe he was. Willie Rioli certainly stopped Brayden Maynard from getting to Sheed as the ball approached, and whether you think that's because Rioli was preparing his own play on the ball or that he was engaging in illegal shenanigans, you're not really wrong. It was a genuinely 50-50 call. Sheed also kind of played on a little bit, which is to say he made a sizeable and deliberate move off the mark, seemingly out of sheer panic in the moment. If it was round 13 and not the dying embers of a classic grand final, maybe an umpire blows up on Rioli for the block or calls Sheed to play on, and the panel shows debate it for three minutes and we all forget about it two days later. But no. Gaff punched Brayshaw so Sheed returned to the West Coast team, and Sheed played well so the Eagles made the grand final, and Sheed didn't go off when he was supposed to and instead lingered in the forward line, and Schofield went AWOL so McGovern switched to De Goey, and McGovern took the mark, which led to the ball getting to Sheed and Sheed was awarded the mark and not called to play on. And Dom Sheed kicked the goal and we will talk about it forever. The latter years of Sheed's career have been a hard luck tale, injury thwarting him at every turn. Had things gone another way his retirement at barely 30 years old may not have registered much beyond WA. Instead it has led to an afternoon of celebration across the league and a wearing out of a truly great AFL highlight. It nearly never happened, but for all except the Magpie fans among us, we should be very grateful it did.
