We kick off with the Swan Hill Cup tonight and how privileged are the locals to have Guaranteed and Hector Jay Jay going around in their $30k cup. Guaranteed resuming would have been coup enough in my book but to also have the Interdom Fav is sensational for the locals. There will be $30k cups later in the season which wont attract better than Smudge Bromac - no criticism intended, just pointing out how lucky Swan Hill are tonight.
They know how to attract a field as last year it was won by the Hunter Cup winner Arden Rooney before he headed off to win the NZ Cup. It will be a Tk Rec tonight as AR's wonderful 1.57.3 was for the 2790m SS with AR coming off 30m while tonight is now of course from the mobile. I do not think anyone can argue that tonight would have been a much better contest as a handicap but then again they may not have attracted the top 2.
I hope we will have a poster in attendance to report that they have a huge crowd. If we did not have visitors this weekend I would go myself as it is < 3hrs - and that is a turn around from a guy who did not even go to the local meet on Thursday! If great horses cannot pull a crowd then we are in big trouble. If you cannot be there tune in at 9pm tonight folks
https://www.harness.org.au/fields.cf...romstate=vic#7
ps Looking up Arden Rooney is another one of those schemozzles where you have to go between 2 sites to study his performances but at least NZ acknowledges his Aus form.
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