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Nature Strip surrounded by daylight, as he bolted in for the Group 3 UBET Lightning Stakes (Image: Atkins Photography) Weir: None faster than Nature Strip Andrew Eddy@fastisheddy 28 July, 2018 , ( Darren Weir says Nature Strip is the fastest horse in the country, but the master trainer still managed to find some faults in the horse's blistering performance in the UBET Lightning Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Nature Strip left jaws dropping around the country when he put away one of the season's premier juveniles in Sunlight when recording 33.27s for his final 600 metres of the 1050-metre Lightning in what turned out to be a one-act affair that the $1.50 favourite won by six lengths. Weir is in awe of Nature Strip's speed but he's a perfectionist and can see some improvement to come. "It wasn't overly pretty with him missing the start and over-racing a bit, but there wouldn't be a faster horse going around," Weir said from Caulfield after watching the race on Racing.com. "He got trucking up a bit getting towards the corner but then when he went around the corner and let rip, it was always going to make it hard for the others to run home down." After settling behind her, Nature Strip burned off the two-year-old star Sunlight ($2.60) on the home turn and had six lengths on that filly on the line with a further length to Fancy Rumble ($81) in third place. Weir said he had no doubts that Nature Strip's name will continue to be thrown around as an Everest contender after he firmed in the market for the race from $26 to $11 on Saturday evening despite not yet owning a spot. "Look, at the end of it all, it was a terrific run away from that and it will give some people a few things to think about," Weir said. "He's an exciting horse and once he learns to get it altogether and switch off, 1200 metres won't be any worry." Jockey Damian Lane said he felt the horse did not over-race after missing the start slightly but rather he just wanted to go another speed to his rivals. "I think he would have sat at Sunlight's girth really comfortably if she'd gone a good tempo, but she just tried to slacken off in the middle stages," Lane said. "It wasn't that he over-raced. She was just going too slow for him and he just wanted to get on with it. "He's a very good horse and I wouldn't have expected anything less of him to tell you the truth. "The best part of his races are from the 600 to the 300 where he's getting to his top and really cruises through his gears."

Correct. Track rated a Soft 5. The sectionals were as follows: Overall Time: 1:00.68 800m: 44.06 600m: 33.27 400m: 22.66 200m: 11.73

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I've met Tim and his parents several times. Great family and well done Tim. I guess Brent (his Dad) that $4m in %'s equals a lot of chickens. Tim struggled to get drives early in his career even though one of the top Junior Drivers. Brent bought horses to help get drives. Also I'm told Tim was one of the top schoolboy rugby players in his day. First pick ahead of Colin Spade who of course went on to be a Crusader and All Black. However Tim's passion has always been for harness racing.

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All I will say is bring the money home.

What was the Jap horse that Gai acquired?