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I totally agree, 1;58.1 would make him pretty competitive at Monticello. They have some real mutts over there.
Hey Dumbass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the speed rating for the entire distance which was over 3/8th of a mile further. Miles down there account for less than 10 percent of the distances they race. They drive to win down there not to see how fast they can go and lose. You may have noticed they produce good drivers down there.
He does have the track record for that distance at Melton but his best mile time only equals 53.2 there (5/8 track ? )and his overall record does not show a super high win percentage. How is he going to compete against the North American stock if he comes here? From what I remember the only down under trotter that was or is even competitive against open trotters is Majestic Player A and that was only last year.
Hey Double Dumbass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't that where the mutt known as Lazarus N came from? Takes a good driver to make those mutts go.
Time will tell. He is the perfect horse to come over here. He is about the 3rd best trotter in NZ but the best over a mile which they only race over a couple of times a year. We will see who buys him but if they are offering huge money, they too must think he will do well over here. Hardly any of the top trotters from there come over here and as far as the pacers go, only in the last three or four years have the better ones started to come over. Who knows how they will perform as it's a totally different game and many of them don't acclimate but I am betting if this horse comes over, he will do just fine as long as they don't run the horse when he gets sick as they all do. Tony Herlihy has one (Bolt for Brilliance by Muscle Hill)) that will be winning everything over there next year and is already better than this horse over longer distances. He won a mile and 3/8th race, trotting his last half in 54 and change with a flat inside tire the whole journey. In the link below with the video of the race is a pic of the tube wrapped around the wheel. IMO, there ain't gonna be a horse in the Southern Hemisphere go with him except Sundee's Son and he may have trouble keeping up.http://www.harnesslink.com/News/Remarkable-win-for-Bolt-For-Brilliance