A G Hunter Cup and Great Southern Star 2024

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13 days away - Feb 3
The distance may not be his specialty but the Ballarat Cup was a decent hitout for Catch A Wave
He is $11 and already here

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The noms

BETTER ECLIPSE

BEYOND DELIGHT

BULLETPROOF BOY

CANTFINDABETTORMAN

CATCH A WAVE

CORRAVALLY STAR

CURLY JAMES

CYA ART

DONT STOP DREAMING

ENCIPHER

HURRICANE HARLEY

KANENA PROVLIMA

LEAP TO FAME

MACH DAN

MAX DELIGHT

PETES SAID SO

SERG BLANCO

SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS

TAIPO

TIMS A TROOPER

TRIPLE EIGHT

https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...qXHbAGa7zbHP1M

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Here is the field

2024 SENTrack A G Hunter Cup (2760m)

BETTER ECLIPSE (Jess Tubbs)

BEYOND DELIGHT (Emma Stewart)

CATCH A WAVE (Andy Gath)

CURLY JAMES (Courtney Laker)

CYA ART (Jason Grimson)

DONT STOP DREAMING (Mark and Nathan Purdon)

KANENA PROVLIMA (KerryAnn Morris)

LEAP TO FAME (Grant Dixon)

MACH DAN (Emma Stewart)

MAX DELIGHT (David Aiken)

SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS (Luke McCarthy)

TAIPO (Brad Hewitt)

EMERG: CANTFINDABETTORMAN (Luke McCarthy)

https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...d-is-revealed/

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Lucky Leap To Fame and Dont Stop Dreaming have come or else it would be a pretty weak Hunter Cup

Cya Art gets a start with only 6 wins to his name

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So Swayzee wasn't even nommed (2nd fav a week ago - easy money for bookies!)
Has Jason Grimson ever had a horse perform for longer than 12 months?

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Or 12 starts (I might be wrong)

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While Trainor's good results with I Cast No Shadow only ran from Feb '22 to Feb '23 (2nd in last year's Hunter Cup) he did have 20 starts

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A fit Honolua Bay would really have taken this race to another level

Add Act Now and RNRDoo at their best along with the injured mares Encipher and Ladies In Red - WOW that would have been some field (without even needing any NZers or Swayzee)

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You would think that the draw has destroyed the chances of all those on the 2nd line bar Don't Stop Dreaming

https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...24#MXM03022401

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A fit Honolua Bay would really have taken this race to another level

Add Act Now and RNRDoo at their best along with the injured mares Encipher and Ladies In Red - WOW that would have been some field (without even needing any NZers or Swayzee)

RNRDoo and Ladies both went around in a trial at Melton today !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps RNR won it by many, many lengths - why would Mick Stanley want to do that?