Good luck to Our Girl Harlow from the Richard Williams stables, who will commence from the two barrier, while Gotta Rush, from the Sarah Rushbrook stables, will commence from the four barrier.

Both are engaged in the third heat. So if the Tamworth stables finish in the first three, they will be heading into the $30,000 final on December 28. Good luck

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THE All Stars Racing Team of Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen certainly were the stars in the 2019 Inter Dominion Final at Alexandra Park, New Zealand, last Saturday night.

The $500,000 final was taken out by Ultimate Sniper, which was driven by Rasmussen. Talk around the tracks is that Ultimate Sniper will be heading to Australia in the New Year for the Miracle Mile and the Chariots of Fire at Menangle.

"He is just a super little horse," Rasmussen said after the final. "He was tired tonight [Saturday] and deserved to be after what he has done in this series. When he needed to, he knuckled down and was too strong.

"It is pretty satisfying to get another win other than Blacks A Fake. He was a big part of my life but this has become a bigger part of life."

Ultimate Sniper won for the 14th time from 20 outings, which include three placings and $842,793 in prize money and a best mile rate of one minute and 56 seconds.

It was Purdon's ninth Inter Dom as a trainer, after earlier in the night driving his seventh Inter Dominion winner, Winterfell, in the trotters final. Rasmussen now has six Inter Dom's as a trainer and five as a driver. Only her partner has been more successful in the big race.

Although the Australian horses did not fare well in the Inter Dom, a huge congratulations were bestowed on reinsman Cameron Hart, who represented Australia in the Australasian Young Drivers Championships in New Zealand and finished second to Kiwi reinswoman Sarah O'Reilly.

Hart will travel to Sweden to contest the World Young Drivers Championships. He will represent Australia.

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HARNESS racing last week at Tamworth saw a nine-race program taken over by junior drivers.

Elly Chapple, 17, notched her second career win, with Right On With It, over stablemate Esspe Supreme, who was driven by 18-year-old Hunter Valley reinsman Andrew Bourke. The result gave Dean Chapple a training quinella.

Maitland reinsman Mitch Chapple, who turned 22 the week prior, drove a double for the Trans-Tasman racing team headed by Aaron Goadsby. He drove Immortal Change and A Gift From Heaven.

Tom Ison - a former Tamworth reinsman and now at Sawyers Gully with the Roy Roots stable - had three wins on the program - two for the Jarred Hetherington stables, in Point Oh Five and Corporal Luna, and Water Mark for Quirindi trainer Brendan Hunt.

Blake Hughes also triumphed with three winners.