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That time of year and the Chief has the functions to attend and was heading out to celebrate at a local Business get together. A good time was had by All and getting later into the evening quite a few drinks had been shouted and Toasts made to another fine BOAY year. Chief being a sensible responsible bloke said it would be prudent to take the Bus home , as there would be sure to be a few police patrols about and breath tests going on, at this time of year with all the Christmas functions on. The bus a better bet to get through and avoid these sort of checks. Sure enough , the bus slows and a heap of cars are pulled over at the RBT and the bus is waved through , so Chief knew he did the responsible thing , and can just go back and pick the car up tomorrow. Chief safely arrives home and he is quite happy with his nice evening out , and also the surprise that he knew how to actually drive a bus. and He is still wondering where he actually got the bus from as well. he will have to return it when he finds out. 😊. lol have a merry Christmas Chief and BOAY and safe travels 🎅🌲.

An excellent win . He was too good for my 2 Diamonds who battled hard second and third. Brodster's Boy 'Carter D' in outstanding form with 4 wins. Driving very well. (even when 2nd in the first race) Think I needed the 3rd Diamond to leave Carter Parked out in the Cup . (to team drive help his 2 stable-mates) Mighty Looee handed up though. and the fat Lady started singing for the rest of them after that. 🤣 some great racing at both venues tonight. I swear I haven't watched or betted on an Australian race. Just got a good quid off this fine NZ racing. Even backed that last winner of Bernie's at Auckland with his trotters going so well tonight. And Joliemont is an old favourite too. Good to see ARNA win 2 Golden Gaits like Bernie and Purdon / Phelan mob too. they are all such good trainers. Diamonds even won that one for Nigel and friends too . great stuff. Long may both Islands Keep throwing out Great racing like this !!!!!!!!!! Even the 2 year olds put on very exciting Competitive races at both venues . Chase Me at Auckland , and Spicy Crunch driven an amazing race by Tim Williams to win well from bad draw against nice Fillies at Invercargill in race 10. if you missed that one go check it out. NZ drivers getting super competitive these days instead of conservative. they all did very well.

well done old chap. A big night out on the Northern town for you blokes now 👍😁 bouncing to victory. A great win from that awkward draw , but well deserved. congrats !! Bernie getting 2nd and 3rd again with his trotters is having a great night out too.

They'll still have racing for a bit longer don't worry (although am surprised with that greyhound stuff going on ) Has been some great racing alright, and the Sires Stakes winner from Addington collects his 2nd $100,000 race 'on the trot' so to speak lol. Mate has a share in that one. a fantastic 2 year old trotter is meant To Be. Crystal running 3rd to the 2 x Purdon runners in that with her parents trained horses. You wouldn't be keen to beat Barry's and Scott's if you were here as she drives a lot for them . So reckon she's happy with 3rd 🤣.

Profitable for the owners of the horse though Brodie . Where is your congratulations for the Bernie Hackett and Michelle Wallis team ? running the first 4. There is No stuff up mate. Just you and accountants worrying about the wrong things.🤣 Tell me why Trotters have to race for a tenth of the stake of gallopers all the time ? A once a year initiative is applied to reward the folk still racing trotters at Alexandra Park (that have had 6 starts there since Jan 1st) and it's a GOOD THING mate !!! We need these owners to race the horses . I write to a bloke who has 3 runners in tonight and he is DELIGHTED to get some end of year reward for his annual outlay . Punters can still bet on them if they want to ? I just had $10ew on Sheezagift , after her big Addington win looked a good thing . so have a bit more for Charlie Brown - Dalton Shard Quinella now lol 👍😁. hope that Rocket horse is just a Tom thumb lol 😂 as far as power goes lol. Get your money on mate. support the Buggers and stop worrying about whether bloody Invercargill has more bets than Alex Park . What a stupid thing to worry about. when there's good racing happening .

Nearly time for the Cup . Better watch out Big 'Mo' . these bad boys nailed you in May. Can they do it again?

The Invercargill Cup is on , and some nice horses are engaged to try and win the Group 1 Feature race. Only 9 starters . 3 of them are John Dunns team , so with a bit of planning , and a handy 10m start on 'Mo' and 'The Pub' party from the stand handicaps , we could have a Diamonds winner? If some of NZ's best drivers work togeather (Blair, Tim and John) they could well 'Outfox' those young guns . and with Mo'unga and Republican Party having to circle the field to get into it , the Diamonds have a near 2 second buffer Odds are out already , so lets see if Blair can take this out at 18-1 with Dalton Shard ? or can John finally get Charlie Brown to the post in first place ? He beat home both Merlin and Don't Stop Dreaming last start. So Good Grief, lets go Charlie Brown 😆 and get Tim and Blair riding ShotGun , home you go at 9-1. that's not peanuts😋 $50 on the CB nose , and a tenner Dalton cover , and box em' both with big 'Mo' in the Tri , Christmas comes early 👍😁 (all going well😂) 1 MIKEY MAGUIRE MATTHEW WILLIAMSON FT x9x8 201.00 9.00 2 PINSEEKER JONNY W COX FT 3335 7.00 1.85 3 DA VINCI CRAIG FERGUSON FT 6779 26.00 4.00 4 AMERICAN ME GERARD O'REILLY FT 6053 Scratched 5 RAKERO ROCKET GAVIN SMITH FT 3111 3.00 1.28 6 DALTON SHARD BLAIR ORANGE FT 7506 18.00 3.40 7 MIGHTY LOOEE TIM WILLIAMS FT 0050 61.00 5.50 8 FRANCO MAREK JOHN MORRISON FT 8464 Scratched 9 CHARLIE BROWN JOHN DUNN FT 4032 9.00 2.25 10 MO'UNGA ROBBIE CLOSE 10 1161 2.35 1.26 11 REPUBLICAN PARTY CARTER DALGETY 10 4383 5.50 1.70

yes the Yankiwi bloke has listed injurues and track problems etc, trying to get some notice of these issues. If you go to hard at/ and against something you do risk over-reaction in the Negative more than the Positive sometimes. It's like 'let's call it all off then for ethical issues'. 🙄. can't they be bothered working on a solution ? . NSW Government closed greyhounds 2017 , for a short time but Racing was re-instated when they realized the employment of over 2000 was impacted , and all that was needed was a revue panel to apply 32 Recommendations (that were all approved) to improve the running of the industry in that state. Surely NZ greyhound Admin should contact them , and Implement the Same changes ? can't be that hard. Just as many horses (and especially human athletes in All manner of sports ) have heaps of injury issues as well as the greys. It's Par for the course as muscles strain , and man , horse and dog stretch out to their maximum ability . but they persevere and treatments and surgeries are done. No -one is trying to get injured or injure others. A cap on breeding numbers of some kind ? maybe a cap on runners from one kennel in one race ? should be max 4 per race , so that more people (rivals) have a chance to earn prizemoney as well, to keep people interested. they could of tweaked a few things ??. there's a LOT of dog lovers out there , lots of tracks, plenty of Punters. Giving it all up for a few 'Wokes' is just giving in to a miniority. is Horse racing next?

great run last start . 58 sec half behind Gold Bullion. He is trotting well now compared to 2 months ago when was galloping all the time. Well done to the conditioners for getting him right. Best of Luck for a Win this week. so about half a dozen gave it a go . Jolly Roger might go close. But the Concept is deeply flawed when you're racing very ordinary everyday horses for 100k every race. Not many horses get to start in Group Races in their careers , which should be the priority if possible if they can run a bit. ( Like the Invercargill Cup 100k Friday which has the 'prestige' and the Cup class B support horses attending .) there should be some 'prestige' tied in to Group races. running these Very large stake 'plain races' doesn't seem right somehow , without any of the 'prestige' allowed/given to them. I guess the slot races aren't Group races = So this is the next progression ?? I guess it's just a bonus for the 'week to week' owners that send them round each week ?. The 3 year old race has a handy lot (duchess Megxit and Better Knuckle Up , etc) and a 2 yearold trotter Sires stakes winner in race 3 , but the rest of the card has horses not really of Group Class status in their career.

incredible to think that the Southerners won't travel there much these days. Especially when it's a whole card of $100,000 races. Where did they get the $1,000,000 from ? Can't help but agree that is a Bit much , and should of been spread around better. (throughout NZ) especially since the racecard has 5 of their normal trot races. The North with quite a few Trotter specialists like Bernie Hackett , the Dr, the McGowans , Balle's , TonyH pretty good with a trotter too , Dickies. so is good they have plenty of races for them . About 60 trotters racing Friday. I think the Southerners are scared off by Meant To Be winning the Sires stakes at Addington, Better Knuckle Up the Ascent, Duchess Megxit doing great things too , so Not turning up ?? chickened out lol. Bob Butt put in an appearance past 2 weeks , so good on him. should of hung around for another week . Gold Bullion could of Won one of these 100k trots ?? would of gone close. He's not going to Invercargill against Hope's or anything ? so should of gone for the BIG bucks 💰. Old Mate Mo'Unga is heading down there for Group 1 glory. Go the Mo !!! looks a Special. collect again 💰. can't wait.

good on you curious. Horses are great and love to run. ( I think greys do too, and is a shame what happening there. Chief doesn't like your surveys, but that polling report is quite damning. but I have felt it myself in recent times, and believe that it is the case. My 2 children and their mates (in their 20's) won't support racing as they have ethical issues regarding the horses and greyhounds. even though they know I was/am fond of it and been heavily involved in lifetime. Is quite 'on the Nose' with that generation. they just avoid it. like a BIG chunk of the younger gen's. As for Thomass issue here with half strikes and full strikes of whip . why not go with No strikes ? Just do what the trotting/harness blokes do !! . Their horses have had zero strikes for quite some time now. THE Main Whip rule these days being = BOTH HANDS on THE REINS at all times . (whip carried in one rein hand) all the trotters get is a little flick tickle lol 😂 AND that would equate to zero flank/body strikes on thoroughbreds . and just a bit of shoulder slapping. It's so obvious ? horse gets no strikes then , but the good jockeys can still get a shoulder slap (for noise with the whip flap) and wave the thing sideways outside the blinkers a little bit if they're talented enough (while whip is still in a Rein hand) to scare them (the horse) on that bit extra for a few metres to win in that photo finish 👍🏇. excellent stuff. Problems solved again by Gamma .

Young Wilson doing very well. Will possibly get the spot for the next Australasian Junior driver series if he keeps it up. and get a victory like Sam Thornley and Sarah O'Reilly have done recently (all going well in the new year) and yet they suspended young Ryan Sanderson who did bugger all wrong (on Dangerous) and drove him well into 5th. See a old kiwi horse who got nothing over there in his last year of racing in NZ ran 4th . named TERRY. does show there are races for all sorts of those sort of horses to be won over here in Oz somewhere. Speaking of Hewitts (and Rangiora too) one of the Hewitts who moved to Queensland a year or 2 back just won today with INDIFFERENCE. a year ago it ran 3rd in a Rangiora maiden Nov 10th 2023. Has had 6 starts in Brissy for todays WIN and a couple last Summer when he last raced. It was backed $2.00 into $1.60 today.?? been heavily backed all 6 starts so must show some dash in training? I was dirty on it though 😂 as my One bet today was a horse I've been backing (because the owners are very good friends ) in SMARTER THAN YOU. Had 50 💰 bucks on it at 10-1 . couldn't believe the good odds. He Went well too. But only 2nd to that bloody OUR INDIFFERENCE NZ horse. Cut me out of a good collect. It didn't win by much. was hoping it would need a run or 2 , for fitness, but no such Luck. Smarter Than You is a Very very good horse and will win heaps . Daggy Lamb won for Nz the race after hahaha🤣

yeah but Wilson was being 'cheeky' leaving the fence from the pole draw when he did. I wouldn't blame Sam being annoyed. Have a Look at the Interdominion Final last Saturday night . Very experienced reinsman Brad Hewitt. Had just Won the Interdominion TROT 3/4 hour earlier. Brad Tries to be a smartie-pants and leave the fence early with his runner from 4 back the fence . (the same spot where Wilson House was ? ) But driving Captains Knock but they got to the First Bend, and NERANO was laying all over him trying to keep a position in the running line. Nerano of Grimson's . Also with a very good reinsman in Jack Callaghan aboard , SO they locked wheels and both their chances Gooonnneee in a flash. they were at the back of the field and chances all but gone. Who was to blame ? Stewards suspended young Sanderson , who pushed out from behind the tiring My Moonlite Dream (who ran last ) . Sanderson had no choice ?? he ran 5th with Dangerous in the end. Had to push out . Hewitt actually took a runner out of play with his early manouver. Heavy contact And got away Scot free ? lol. no justice in that . I'd of given him a decent Holiday . Hewitt made BIG CONTACT destroying his horses chances (and another runner) . way worse than anything Sam did at Rangiora. (IMO)

think he had too once Sam started putting her wheel under his horses legs as they left the straight. It was a fine piece of battle if you look at it. Wilson had his wheel close to Sam's horses legs as he left the fence line as they approached the post a lap out. And she repaid him the favour lol. 🤣. I thought it looked all good and wouldn't be getting to excited about it if was a Steward. Perhaps The Galah mightn't be as Good a Steward as we were thinking he would be, if he's gunna worry about giving suspensions for that little jostle ? 😉 She didn't touch him (very close though 😆) so No problem 👍 .

That was a very very interesting race. I nearly was going to ask you what you thought of it. Bob had trucked out to take the lead at the start. with Princess Meritaten. and yeah , was quite late cutting her loose. And she veered out coming up the home straight . 😳. Holy cow. I thought Bob was doing it on purpose to try and hinder Duchess Megxit who was finishing very well out wide , with the fast quarter you mentioned. But when Stipes questioned him , he said she (Princess Meritaten) was hitting her knee , going right handed at Alexandra Park. ( One of the real downfalls of that place that no-one talks about much ) and why they should sell it lol .😆 as well as to clear the massive ATC debt. Anyway , Thats the reason she veered out , as was unbalanced, and probably why she wasn't 'Cut loose' on the home bend earlier as you would of liked. so I'm not blaming Bob for changing line now in the home straight. She sprinted from the back out very wide the previous week to show what a great filly she is . Princess Meritaten and Duchess Megxit could both verywell be the next Ardie's Express'es.? . great racehorses.

Stipes are like magistrates Chief 🤣. they all make a decision based on the 'evidence' provided in front of them and penalize you accordingly . they all do the same thing and you just have to Respect their decision/verdict. The evidence of wrongdoing is obvious on videos (races and that most of the time) but they still have to deal with those sort of people that don't believe they have things like 'positive swabs' , (nor ride outside the rules in a race , etc) , and rules should be applied to them differently because they are that 'special'. someone just needs to tell Endresz that a positive swab is a Positive swab. he's not that special that he can hide that like he does a lot of his other stuff . Murrihy is the same as any other stipe. just doing his job. respect his decision rightly or wrongly. Lawyers in the Law courts are laughable at times , as lie their butts off for their clients benifit. It's all about the money. Stipes are more reputable in my opinion (than lawyers) as base their decisions Solely on the evidence provided .

Definitely a trend these days because of Swayzee and Leap To Fame. (and Just Believe trotting) Luke poured it on down the back (2nd last quarter in 26 seconds ) with Don Hugo and had them all struggling except Minstrel . and then outstayed them . Exceptionally well judged by Luke. yes Minstrel was tremendous too. Swayzee (in the 2 NZ Cups wins) , Leap to Fame (nearly every race) , Don Hugo (lately each race) , Trotters too, Just Believe( in the Dominion Hcap) , Keayang Zahara( in the trotting Derby and that.) The Locomotive in recent runs, They all get balanced early , while the others duel for the front. And when they've settled for a moment mid-race, they come calling for the lead and then really' let rip ' in the second last quarter and get everything off the bit completely nearly . none of them burn straight to the lead at the start going flat out or anything. A heap of the feature races are run and Won this way these days, as demonstrated beautifully by Don Hugo. Duchess Megxit tried it in the Fillies Final Cup day but was caught late by Treacherous Baby. The last quarter in All these races was SLOWER by about 1 to 2 seconds on the 'second last quarter' where the action is really happening these days , when All these Top horses put the rivals To the sword with a 26 or 27 sec burst . I quite like this style really as quite exciting viewing, and has been better than just watching the 'Traditional' last quarter dash after stacking them up.

That's 6 NZ winners in the last 10 Championships. A fine record !! hey lets have a look at the NZ combatants since 2002 . Do you remember some of these drivers ? some disappeared ? and Looks like BEN Hope never gotta Go at it at any stage ? thought that was surprising ? 🤔 2002/ Lauren Pearson 3rd, Scott Phelan 4th, Stephen McNally 7th 2003/ Nicole Thorn 4th, Andrew Armour 5th, Craig Jamieson 9th 2004/ Scott Phelan 2nd, Stephen McNally 8th, Scott Lethaby 9th 2005/ Jonny Cox 3rd, John Dunn 6th, Stephen Buthcer 10th 2006/ Jay Abernathy 1st, Gavin Smith 3rd, Jonny Cox 6th 2007/ Matty White 4th, Gavin Smith 6th, Jonny Cox 7th 2008/ Dexter Dunn 3rd, Matty White 4th, Jason Hackett 6th 2009/ Nathan Williamson 3rd, Dexter Dunn 4th, Bob Butt 10th 2010/ Dexter Dunn 2nd, Royden Downey 3rd, Reon Tither 7th 2011/ Josh Dickie 1st, Matt Williamson 2nd, Zac Butcher 6th, Dexter Dunn 7th 2012/ Tim Williams 4th, Josh Dickie 6th, Simon Mcmullen 7th, Zac Butcher 10th 2013/ Josh Dickie 2nd, Zac Butcher 5th, Matt Williamson 7th 2014/ Andre Poutama 1st, Samantha Ottley 3rd, Simon McMullen 10th 2015/ Robbie Close 1st, Andre Poutama 2nd, Michelle Neilsen 3rd, TRIFECTA. Ben Butcher 10th 2016/ Robbie Close 2nd, Matt Anderson 3rd, Kyle Marshall 4th, Brad Williamson 6th 2017/ Dylan Ferguson 2nd, Kimberley Butt 5th, Sheree Tomlinson 7th 2018/ Sheree Tomlinson 1st, Alicia Harrison 7th, Ben Butcher 9th 2019/ Sarah O'Reilly 1st, Sheree Tomlinson 3rd, John Morrison 6th, Ben Butcher 7th 2020 and 2021 cancelled for covid 2022/ Sam Thornley 2nd , Sarah O'Reilly 5th, Crystal Hackett 6th 2023/ Sarah O'Reilly 6th, Zev Meredith 9th, Crystal Hackett 10th 2024/ Sam Thornley 1st, Kerryn Tomlinson 6th, Crystal Hackett 10th. Congrats to Sam on joining some great kiwi drivers Jay, Josh, Andre, Robbie, Sheree and Sarah as Winners of The Australasian Junior Drivers Championship.

Not surprising that Endresz, is debating a swab validity lol. that's just chicken feed to him. He would be thinking a race-horse swab should be easy to overturn , based on his history of fighting things in court. He has fought court battles for years over company directorships, embezzelments and assorted things to do with taxes, an received long bans from company directorship, Bankrupcy issues to clear debt and Government has been chasing him for years , He keeps the large bulk of assets hidden in trust funds to keep himself afloat and gambling away his 'gains' from his failed share market enterprises . Here's just a snippet of his past from the financial review. (Some people have No respect for laws/rules/swabs 🙄) Endresz, 54, has spent a sizeable portion of his adult life under banning orders obtained by ASIC. He was born in Sydney after his father Jozsef emigrated from Hungary. The family moved to Albury, from where the young Endresz carved out a career as a corporate gadfly in the 1980s, on the edge of deals with Alan Bond, Joe Gutnick and John Elliott. He's not a shy man. He speaks volubly of the great injustices done to him, dating all the way back to 1990, when the ASX suspended his Emu Hill Gold Mines NL after he launched a bizarre $7.5 million rights issue, half of which would go into a lottery with $3.75 million paid as prizes to 12 lucky shareholders. He called it Emu Lotto. Three years later Endresz made history as the first Australian to be convicted of market manipulation, for ramping the share price of Emu Hill (now renamed CTC Resources NL) before it was delisted.

Track record by about second for Luke McCarthy and DON HUGO. 1.50 for the 2300m. the Eureka winner is now the Interdominion Champion. Congratulations Luke McCarthy, Australia's best horseman and finally wins the Biggest Race . Drove an Outstanding race that even Mark Purdon probably couldn't of bettered. fantastic Win. MINSTREL 2nd for his NZ owners so the kiwis got some consolation as bridesmaids. Also Brad Hewitt clean Sweeping the Trot Interdom series with The Locomotive , and winning by lengths easy. Both those 2 look like they will be hard to beat here in July at Albion in the next Interdominion? . (It's switching to a mid year date) Definitely No Excuse for the kiwi's Not to turn up.

Cheers mate . I just got home and ready to check out the 2 Interdominion titles shortly. The kiwis have won the first 4 races I see !! excellent stuff. My pick for the Pacing Grand Final unfortunately just winning the Consolation this time round. CantFindaBettorman that I had a picture of earlier in this thread. shame he didn't quite make the GF.. TACT McLoed winning for Mark Jones and Sam Thornley. MIKI PINS , the next big thing for Bootsey and Grimson. NZ bred horses broke 1.50 barrier already last month. yet another Grimson miracle. and of course THE FALCON , now winning in 1.50 for Grimson too. Dramatic improvement on his NZ form. Grimson keeping a share in that one himself to race with Boots. Should win quite a few. 'MUFASA' ran 2nd exactly a year ago TABman to JUST BELIEVE in the last Inter trot Final TABman. could improve one place this time ? Looks like THE LOCOMOTIVE has been going like a Train old mate 😁🚂🚂 could be too hard to beat with Brad Hewitt getting him going exceptionally well.

Brodster , you'd be surprised how much 'stuff' hits you in the face while you're in a race, The dust sheets are very small these days for aerodynamics but surprisingly the main thing that hits you is the horses sweat. it's coming off them at a great rate straight in your face on occasion. I have no problem with Natalie Rasmussen and Kate Gath and some of the other young ladies that have a great veil sort of set up they've used for years to protect their airways. But tell this Rory Bloke , to suck it up mate, and take it like a man , and just run with the goggles 😆🤣. bit of sweat up his nostrils won't hurt him. saves putting any salt on his fish and chips too. 😁

One problem NZ racing has is the deliberate fanning all over the track looking for the best lane as they turn for home in races, at a large amount of the tracks too. Resulting in horses changing direction (not keeping a straight line) all over the course. No one is trying to hurt each other. just finish first. the whole idea of the Game. In Australia they keep a much better line. but incidents happen still in the heat of battle. some of the worlds best in Hugh Bowman and Tommy Berry served long suspensions and fellow jockeys Adkins and Avdulla were very seriously injured and their mounts were destroyed in 2 sad incidents the past few years in Sydney. Thankfully the 2 jocks survived and Hugh and Tommy did 6 week suspensions for interference , the same as Denby Tait in the very sad Ashburton incident. Horses race tight at times and things can happen very quickly. I feel very sad for Megan Taylor , getting killed in a sport we all love, but no need for the coroner to pursue things. The nature of the work is 'great risk' and authorities had given the 6 week suspension , for home straight interference and taken the rules course of action as best applied. almost 2 years to the day that Megan passed. Nothing else can be achieved. (by coroner) Just remember a fine young lady doing something she loved. RIP Megan. condolences to her family and friends.

An interesting bit of History for you Mr Galah. (and anyone interested) for a small bit of trot trivia. Ex-pat kiwi Brent Lilley did win the Interdominion Grand Final about 20 years ago , with GAME BID. while he was a NZ based Trainer. catch driven by Gavin Lang as Anthony Butt who had won the Heat with Game Bid was also winning with his brothers horse defending Champion Take A Moment (the GF winner at Brisbane the year before) , but he finished down the track on this occasion . might have galloped. Game Bid defeated the Raging hot favourite LA COOCARACHA who was caught 3 wide for about 3 laps off the 25m Handicap back Mark at Harold Park. I think Kerryn Manning was only defeated once with her in the 12 months up to them she had been driving it. She had won 10 straight. was a Huge run. So this year Brent (now based in Victoria for many years) is Training the Nz owned mare Queen Elida , and looks set to be probably conquered by THE LOCOMOTIVE as you suggest above . The Locomotive is a foal of the very mare Brent defeated in 'La Coocaracha' in a NSW Grand Final 2 decades ago. He's on a winning streak of 7 straight too. 😅 La Coocaracha has left several good winners including big Great Southern Star winner 'Dance Craze'. Perhaps Brent can Hope to once again Upset the Hot favourite with his star 'Queen Elida' ? and once again push the La Coocaracha family back into 2nd place like he did 20 odd years ago? . 😆 chance of a history repeat ?

Well the finals are ready to Go. Luke McCarthy powered away with Don Hugo to win another Heat . The Eureka Winner looks poised to give the Champion harness man of Australia his first Interdominion Win in his 2 decade career as a trainer, and 11 attempts. NZ owned Minstrel and another good double heat winner last night Captain's Knock are both on the 2nd row. Gives DON HUGO a Huge advantage. from the 3 Alley. INTER DOMINION FINAL BARRIER DRAWS PACERS Front row: Jilliby Nitro ($9), Dangerous ($4.60), Don Hugo ($2.60), My Moonlite Dream ($16), Curly James ($12), Terry ($81), Jimartee ($101), Nerano ($26). Back row: Captain Knock ($5.50), Max Delight ($18), Minstrel ($5.50), Petes Said So ($51). Emergencies: Cantfindabettorman old mate 'Cantfinda betterhorse' didn't make the field. went very average last night sadly. DON HUGO powers away with his heat , after sitting 3 wide first half then working to the lead. He is going like a train at the moment. here he is striding away from the field easy as.