Saturday night will see the running of the 2019 Inter Dominion finals, for both pacers and trotters, at Alexandra Park in Auckland - and the best hot tip is to back a runner from Natalie Rasmussen and Mark Purdon's All Stars stables.
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Purdon has won Inter Dominion finals and so has Rasmussen, with Blacks A Fake, whilst she was still based in Queensland.
The pair are sitting as $1.40 favourites to take the pacers final, training eight of the 13 listed runners.
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Australian living legend Brian Hancock is looking to see if Rasmussen can equal his record of five wins in the Inter Dom (Koala King in 1980, Weona Warrior in 1994 and Our Sir Vancelot in 1997,1998 and 1999).
Australia's best hope in the trotting series, Tough Monarch, from the Rickie Alchin stables, secured his spot in the final with a late-closing second to Temporale in the last round of heats.
From the Rickie Alchin stables, Tough Monarch has drawn the 11 barrier. While fellow Australian runner Big Jack Hammer, from the David Aitken stables, has secured the one barrier in the $150,000 trotters final.
The $500,000 pacers final will see three runners representing Australia - and they are all Victorian pacers: San Carlo (barrier 11), Sicario (barrier two) and My Kiwi Mate (barrier one).
Good luck!
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OUR Girl Harlow deserved her win at Tamworth last week, in taking out the Pit Express Pace with a mile rate of 1min 57.8sec for 1609 metres. Trained at Tamworth by Richard Williams, it was Maitland driver Brad Elder who handled the reins.
"I thought we were going to go a bit quicker - I thought it might have been 1min 56sec. But a pretty good skip for this grade of horse," Elder said.
"She got a bit of mid-race pressure but ripped home a pretty good half, so I think she will win a few more races.
"Richie has her looking good and [he] has a pretty good success rate."
Williams has had Our Girl Harlow for 10 race starts, producing two wins and five placings (four second placings) for the Art Major-Harlow Franco four-year-old mare.
"She has run a good time and the track [Tamworth] is on fire," Elder said. "It is a speed zone here."
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JEMMA Coney made the trip to Dubbo, along with her trainer father Greg, on Wednesday night - and won when Playing Arkabella claimed the Rohrs Timber & Hardware Gilgandra Pace by a short half head. The horse paid $7.50 for the win.
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HARNESS racing will be at Tamworth next Thursday, where Santa Claus will be making a visit after the mini trots have finished their racing program.
