Speed Explosion - Track Records and outstanding times

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Young Nathan Rothwell is probably now in Kate Gath's bad book
In R.1 at Warragul today Kate was driving the stable's new 3yo NZer Southshore and it started $1.35 fav
However Nathan who is yet to have 20 drives was having his fifth drive on 6yo Celestial Gossip and he put it to the fav all the way
It was set up for outsider of the field Byalla Boy to come off the leader/fav's back and win
in 1.56.3 which is only 0.1 secs outside Yambukian's Tk Record for 2210m
Bailey McDonough had done a brilliant job to get the fav's back after starting from widest on the mobile

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...s/?mc=WR131221

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The GP track must have been lightning fast on Friday
There is nothing in the Stewards Column or on the HRA page for GP yet but
Vampiro's 1.52.6 for 2130m has to be a new Tk Rec

While Ideal Agent's 1.51.9 for 1730m was only 0.3 outside Chicago Bull's Tk Rec and that was sitting in the death
Ideal Agent only won 4 from 31 in NZ but has won 5 from 7 since going to WA. His unraced dam is a half sis to The Orange Agent

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Willie Go West went South and won the Hobart Cup in Record time

https://harnesslink.com/australia/au...by-top-pacers/

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Now a 3yo Captain Ravishing has run 1.52.5 at Melton while making it 2 wins from 2 starts

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...22#MXC14012206

Hopefully the replay will be up soon (it has been 1½ hrs since the race)

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I always find it hard to locate age specific Track Records but Peter Wharton reports that the above run, just 2 wks into the season, broke the 3yo Tk Rec at Melton.
For an $8k race, the quarter by quarter splits were most impressive, as was the winning margin

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Cash N Flow now a 9yo is going around in the whacky Mercury 80 (they can't go 80 = 26, 27, 27)
As a 7yo he did the unthinkable in winning 12 miles in a row at Menangle in the following times

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For the whacky Mercury 80, I notice a horse's Performance Record no longer shows a Mile Rate - Good move as they didn't race a mile
But this needs to be cleaned up retrospectively too as when looking at Franco Jolto's Performance Record (he's in R3) you will see he is credited with going 1.47.8 (from last year's M80)

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The track must have been fast at Swan Hill tonight
The 1750m Tk Rec is 1.53.4
We had two winners get within a second of that tonight
Vanquish Stride 1.54.2
3yo filly Beach Life 1.54.4

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...s/?mc=FD170222

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1.47.5. In the Chariots. Hope the top 2 score invites to Mile if thats allowed because Bondi Lockdown was huge and deserved to win

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Fantastic race - some time set up by Bettor Call Me's Q1
Better Eclipse has been racing for 7mths. He took 5 secs off his best MR but that was over 2300m