Speed Explosion - Track Records and outstanding times

[Messenger]

Rob The Bank broke the 1755m Tk Rec at Echuca tonight rating 1.55.4
(Sorry Paul, beating Anything For Love's MR by .3sec)

http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...ic#ECC05101601

ps Only 1 odds on fav for the night and that was $1.90

[Messenger]

Fast track at Melton tonight. Mister Wickham over 2240 and Chilli Palmer over 1720 were both only a single second outside the Tk Recs rating 1.54.4 and 1.51.9 respectively

http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...X141016&ms=vic

[KTQ]

Couple quick 2130m at GP last night:
Chicago Bull 1.54.8
Our Jericho 1.54.6

[Messenger]

Lenny running 1.49.9 at Menangle and Hector coming home in 53.1 at the end of 2790m at Swan Hill - not a bad couple of nags to be sharing the same barn

[Messenger]

Witzend just broke the Ararat 1790m Tk Rec rating 1.57.2
2nd placed Officianado deserved the record as he left the 1x1 and took the death off Witzend as he could see that the odds on fav Justbritell was going to get it too easy in the lead and after that the speed was on the whole way

http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...ic#ARC06091601

Officianado set up another Tk Rec for Witzend at Horsham today
The 2200 Rec at Horsham is now 1.56.3

http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...ic#HSC24101601

[KTQ]

Bond's horse Simply Susational was SENsational at GP last night - 2130m with a mile rate of 1.53.8! That's pretty amazing for Gloucester. (though Beaudiene Boaz went 1.52.9 for a 2130m back in September)

[Fan of Jate]

Makes you wonder doesn't it, that was a good field and the horse drew 7 and paid $27. I didn't see the race because it was onto late. I would not have picked it especially with some of the good Hall horses in it, but it has had good form before a spell and it does have a 1:52:6 to its credit at GP over 1730 which is just about the track record. Noteworthy is that the horse is ranked about 40th for the inters which is the lowest of the 6 Bond horses.

[Messenger]

Hector ran a slick 1.55.2 for the 2150m at Bendigo tonight but that was not enough to replace
the 1.54.9 run by the Turnbull/Jack horse Oh Jonny B Good as a 3yo in a C1 at his first start in Australia in May last year

[KTQ]

Waylade went 1.53.6 for the 2130m at GP last night now. Small field of 8 though.

Hall's horses don't seem to have the indomitable punch they had before Stablegate ...

[arlington]

Not sure if Always B Miki's 1:46 has already been posted but love some of the content and quotes from this article

http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolu...72402&zoneid=1

“What I do is stand by myself, because I get so caught up in things, probably about the sixteenth pole and then literally run with him,” Hurley said about his race day ritual with Always B Miki. “I can’t keep up, but I begin running toward the finish line.

...And then I hear somebody say ‘world record’ and I hear somebody else say ‘1:46’ and then it’s just -- well, there’s no feeling to describe it. I have a pretty wide vocabulary, but there is no word in the vocabulary to describe the feeling.”


Coming from a prominent defence attorney... now that's saying something !