BREEDER's CROWN Finals tonight

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Once a Happy hunting ground for some Nz Winners. Nothing for Nz again this year in all the Big Group 1 Finals tonight at Melton.

Nz harness has quickly retreated into it's shell and barely get a runner in these features these days. There's Barely a horse coming to the $1,000,000 Interdominion next month at Brisbane. run out of Winning vibes with Allblacks and BlackCaps falling short I suppose. 

Emma Stewart stable won an Incredible 7 of the 8 semi-finals last week and beaten a neck in the other by the Captain Ravishing man Freddie Taiba with his good colt Nathan Street. sure to feel the wrath of the 'Stewart barn' in race 5 as the whole front line comes at him (along with a ex-pat kiwi Kyle Marshall horse too)  

Think Emma Stewart qualified ALL 15 horses they had in the Four Semi finals . 🏆🏆🏆. an Outstanding Achievement, The Galah will even enjoy that ?😆😉

only a few short years ago 2013-2018 era New Zealand Trained horses were winning these races!!!. Dexter with 'BIT OF A Legend' a couple of times , and KATY Perry' for the Dalgetty's. ....Mark Purdon was sending home in first place 'Follow The Stars' and 'WAIKIKI Beach' in the 2 yearold colts... and 'Our Dream About Me', PARTYon and PRINCESS Tiffany in the 2 year old fillies division's ...... and BOOSTING Nz breeding accordingly. 

The last 4 years or so Emma Stewart nearly clean sweeping them . including winning with stars Act Now, Ladies In Red and Encipher . so have nearly shoved Nz out of the picture altogeather .. come on boys !!(and girls) show some fight and get back in the Mix ?.  

 

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and the winners are .... Trainer Emma Stewart takes out all 4 pacing divisions with the 2year old colt 'Timmy Rictor' being the most impressive.  and all the Breeders Crown pacing finals  were won in about a  1.55 MR. 

The trotters were very steady and trotting only about 2.00 MR without any Nz opponents.

Ex=pat kiwi John Newberry training the 3 year old trotting filly Breeders Crown winner . NORDIC REIGN driven by son Matthew. The Newberry family were in Clevedon South AKLD,  for many years and won the Dominion trot Group 1  once with Cal Brydon.  John spent a few years in QLD too and in the early ninties remember racing against him many times where he won about 50 races with BRYDON DUKE .The 'Duke' frequently competing against old Auckland Cup winner COMEDY LAD who won about 50 races as well. Last nights  Breeders Crown would be John's biggest win for decades. 

ex-pat Nzer and trotter specialist Brent Lilley had 5 x breeders crown trotting finalists but they all ran unplaced.