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Har ness Racing Ma gazine
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Bendigo Trotting Cup and Maryborough’s exciting
Redwood Day is just around the corner - READ MORE INSIDE
25 May 2012
2011 Elitloppet champion Brioni
Maryborough Trotting’s big day
24 May 2012 - Two-year-old trotter Blitzthemcalder could
be world class according to international driver Luke
McCarthy who has partnered the rising star at three of his
victories. Trainer Ross Payne was beaming after his juve-
nile trotting star shaved 2.5 seconds off the 2yo Trot track
record tonight at Bendigo winning the first heat of the Tat-
low Stakes with ease. The 35.8 metre romp was Blitzthem-
calder’s sixth consecutive win and the second record in
his short career. His winning time was 2:42.4 (2:01.6
MR). Two runs back he also set an Australasian record at
Menangle with a 1:59.6 mile. At Bendigo, Blitzthemcalder
was driven Leigh Sutton who has now also won three
races on the ‘black flash’. The $1.10 favourite for the
heat, Blitzthemcalder worked his way to the front early
then jogged through the early sectionals before being
revved up at the half mile. When extended for the last
quarter, Blitzthemcalder trotted home in 28.5s. “He is the
best I have driven, he has got gears,” Sutton said. Payne
said that Luke McCarthy has already compared this horse
to Muscle Hill (the trotter he steered to win the World Trot-
ting Derby at at the Illinois State Fair in DuQuoin in 2009).
“He reckons you won’t see the best of this horse until you
can get one to go with him and test him,” Payne said. Per-
fectly balanced Blitzthemcalder does his work so easily.
“You could balance a cup of coffee on his back,” Payne
said. A son of pacing sire Metropolitan from the trotting
line that produced Maoris Idol, Blitzthemcalder,bred and
raced by Calder Park’s Rick Burchell, will start a short
priced favourite for the 2yo Tatlow Trot Final, a Group 2
race with as $30,000 stake at Tabcorp Park next Friday
night. The second of the Tatlow heats for 2yo trotters was
won by the Maiden Gully trained Bellmac Cody. Trained by
David Van Ryn and driven by Haydon Gray, Bellmac Cody,
a gelding by Barcardi Lindy won his race by 8.4 metres.
His time was 2:44.6 (2:03.2) which was also faster than
Gluteus Maximus’ 2007 former record mark.— David
Aldred
Calder could be world class
Bendigo blitz record romp
Harness Racing Magazine May 24th, 2012
In this issue
Redwood Day 2
Bendigo Trotters Cup 2
Elitloppet 2012 3
HRITC Success 4
Addy’s Back 4
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Sunday July 15 is fast approaching and
that means that it is once again Redwood
day in the state’s north-west.
Maryborough will host what has become the flagship carnival for Trotting in country Vic-
toria. The meeting will feature the $75,000 Group 1 Seelite Windows & Doors Victoria
Trotters Derby Final and the $50,000 Group 1 Seelite Windows & Doors Redwood Clas-
sic on the Sunday. This is the only opportunity squaregaiting fans have to experience
Group 1 racing in a relaxed country environment. Given the strong interest in the day the
Metropolitan and Country Harness Racing Association has decided to put together a
package for those in the Melbourne and Melton regions. You will get a return coach trip,
entry to the racetrack, race book, lunch and afternoon tea plus all the fun and excite-
ment of the Redwood, for the cost of $65.00 per person. There will also be a punters
club on track and a raffle on the bus for those who wish to join in. The coach will leave
Moonee Valley at 8.45 sharp and Tabcorp Park Melton at 9.15 am sharp, returning after
the last race. Bookings are essential and must be made by June 30, to book call Len
Baker on 0401 679 745 or John Muller on 03 9743 5507.— HRV Media
Redwood Day is
rolling around again
John Justice holds the trophy aloft
Bendigo Bank Trotting Cup should be super night
Bendigo Harness Racing Club will host a
super night of trotting on Saturday 9 June
with the feature race the annual $15,000
Bendigo Trotter’s Cup.
The Bendigo Bank have come on board to
sponsor the Trotting Cup for the first time.
The Trotters Cup is for TM0 or better class
horses and is a standing start Discretionary
Handicap over the marathon 2650 metres.
Also on this program is the $7,000 Alabar
3yo Guineas and the $7,000 Bendigo Bank
Trotters Classic for 3yo’s. The 3yo Fillies
race feature on the program is the
inaugural Les Pratt Memorial Fillies Classic
carrying a purse of $10,000. The Club has
organised a host of activities for the night
including sweepstake draw on the Trotters
Cup.
Art Colony dies Loddon Valley Stud’s John Campbell has
sadly confirmed the passing of dual
hemisphere stallion Art Colony which has
stood at his stud for the past two
seasons at Lockwood in Central Victoria.
The winner of $863,750 and a brilliant
1:51 mile rate performer at two years,
Art Colony died at Winbak Farm Stud in
Ontario, Canada in early May.
www.bhrc.com.au
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currently at $15 in the
heat after running
home strongly for
second from the awk-
ward draw in the Group
2 Prix des Ducs de
Normandie. They will
be joined by the 2010
Elitloppet final winner
Iceland who is $7.50
to take out the heat
and $14 to be only the
ninth horse to win the
race twice. Heat two is
likely to be dominated
by the second of the
French raiders, Rapide
Lebel who has drawn
mobile position six.
Even with the awkward
draw he has come up a
The Elitloppet favourite
for the first heat is the
local squaregaiter
Commander Crowe
who is at the prohibi-
tive odds of $1.75 with
TAB Sportsbet. Given
the polemarker easily
accounted for his
closest rival in the mar-
ket last time out he
should prove hard to
beat here. American
contender Arch Mad-
ness who is the second
favourite at $5 will give
USA legend Brian
Spears his first drive in
the race. French stal-
wart Oyannax is
$1.90 favourite with
TAB Sportsbet fixed
odds. German invader,
Brioni squeezed into
last year’s final by
finishing fourth in the
heat, he then atoned by
coming from near the
back of the field with a
withering burst to win in
one of the closest
finishes ever recorded
in the race. He is back
in form following a win
at Galve just over a
week ago and is $9
with TAB Sportsbet to
take out the heat but
joins Iceland on the
$14 line to be a dual
winner.
Page 3
2011 winner
Brioni is $9
with TAB
Sportsbet to
take out the
Elitloppet heat
but joins
Iceland on the
$14 line to be
a dual winner.
May 24th, 2012
The 2012 Elitloppet is raced this
weekend and this year the race is
going to be as competitive as ever
with 16 horses from six different
nations all staking their claim in one
of the world’s premier trotting
events. The unique mile race worth
over $990,000AUD consists of two
heats, each with eight runners
followed by a final run on the same
day which is compiled from the first
four across the line in each heat.
The race will be conducted for the
61st time. The format has been
tinkered with over time with match
races taking place for the heat win-
ners, distance increases from 1,580
metres to as high as 3,200 metres
in 1959 and walk up starts called
“volts” common practice until 1962
when a mobile start was adopted.
This year the race will be run over its
now consistent 1,609 metres from a
mobile start. Elitloppshelgen, or the
Elitloppet weekend as it is known in
Sweden, will see the Solvalla race-
track host three meetings across
three days which will culminate in
the Elitloppet Final run early Monday
morning Australian time. Punters are
already into full gear with TAB
Sportsbet supporting the meeting by
offering fixed odds on both heats
and the final almost a week out from
the event.
The first race of the night will kick off at
6.20pm (AEST) on Sunday with a mara-
thon ensuing from there. Heat number
one of the Elitloppet will go at 10.57pm
(AEST) while the second heat is sched-
uled for 11.25pm (AEST). Punters will
then have the chance to bet on revised
fixed odds with TAB Sportsbet for final
which will be run at 1.45am (AEST) Mon-
day morning. The race has been rarely
attended by Australasian standardbreds
however New Zealanders Pride Of Petite
(1996), Special Force (1999) and Lyell
Creek (2001) paved the way for Austra-
lian representation in 2008. Chris Lang
took his champion trotter Sundons Gift
over to Sweden for a creditable sixth in
the heat without advancing to the final.
Lang will be back at the Solvalla track
this year to provide live commentary for
Sky Racing on what is shaping up to be a
massive night of harness racing.
All of the action will be live on Sky Racing
1 from 9.40pm (AEST) with harness ex-
perts Adam Hamilton and Gareth Hall
taking punters through an elite night of
squaregaiting. All of those who are social
media savvy will have a chance to have
their say by joining the Elitloppet
conversation, simply add #Elitloppet to
your tweets or tweet to the hosts
@AdamTABSports and @ghall27.
- Blake Redden
World’s best trotters go for Sweden’s top prize
Elitloppet heat snap shot—the form runners
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“They are all keen to
learn we have a very
enthusiastic class this
year with some real
talent there as well,” -
trainer Roma Pocock
Six-year-old mare Auzzie Rose con-
tinued the success for Bendigo’s
Harness Racing Industry Training
Centre with her first win in over a
year, this month at Echuca. The
H.R.I.T.C. Board of Management
race the Conch Deville mare which
was bred by the Board chairman,
Steve Warren. Trained by Roma
Pocock and driven by champion
Bendigo reinsman Darryl Douglas,
Auzzie Rose, came from a 10
metre handicap in the 2530 metre
Choice Hotels T0 Trotters
Handicap and got home by a half
neck over 60 metre backmarker
Cameos Moment with Abbotshall
(30m) close up in third place.
“Daryl (Douglas) just let her bowl
along in front and in her right class
she was able to go her own speed,
and she hung on,” Pocock said.
Auzzie Rose’s front running victory
follows hot on the heels of stable
mate Village Patrol’s win earlier
this month at Cobram.
Pocock said the harness racing
trainees attending the Bendigo
H.R.I.T.C get very excited when the
horses race and do well in their
races. “Only a couple of the
students were there last night
because some on them had the flu
and couldn’t make it but the ones
there were jumping up and down
and got very excited,” she said.
The students put a lot of work into
the training centre team of trotters
and pacers, working and caring for
the horses under the watchful eye
of trainer Pocock, day in and day
out. Pocock said that the students
including current reinsman Clinton
McSwain are learning everything
there is to learn about harness
racing, Pocock said. “Driving,
training and feeding the horse, the
horse care skills, they learn every-
thing. When the horses win it just
makes it that little bit easier for
them all to front up for ‘work’ early
each day. They are all keen to
learn we have a very enthusiastic
class this year with some real
talent there as well,” Pocock said. -
David Aldred
Training school getting success on and on
the track at Bendigo
Lauren Daffy with Auzzie Rose
Addy aka Spirit Of Bendigo is back in training
at Paul and Maree Campbell’s Maiden Gully
property after having more than six weeks rest
to recover from an inflamed splint bone in her
leg. She has returned to the cart and started
jogging as she prepares on her road back to
the trials and her long awaited race debut. The
Campbell’s are happy with Addy’s progress.
“She has done a lot of swimming in recent
weeks but her legs have been given complete
rest from the trackwork,” Paul Campbell said.
”we will bandaged her legs and box her of an
evening just to make sure . The bandages will
give her extra support for the concussion work
of jogging..” Addy will also continue her swim-
ming routine to build her fitness.
Addy’s back
Addy aka Spirit Of Bendigo at the trials