Keayang Zahara jumps to seventh in latest rankings

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After going through her first New Zealand campaign unbeaten, Australian superstar Keayang Zahara is the biggest mover in this week’s rankings for the Renwick Farms Dominion Trot and the IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup, to be held at Addington Raceway on Tuesday, November 11.

The Volstead four-year-old, who famously won her first 15 starts, was super impressive winning the Dullard Cup in Melbourne over the weekend, beating the likes of Inter Dominion and TAB Trot champion Arcee Phoenix in the process.

That victory, her 16th in 17 career starts, has propelled her up eight places to now be seventh in the Dominion rankings. Her wins last year in New Zealand were in the Trotting Oaks, the Trotting Derby and the Show Day slot race, THE ASCENT.

She will line up again in the Bill Collins Mile at Melton this Saturday night in another star studded affair.

Mighty Logan booked his place in the Dominion with his win in the Worthy Queen at Addington on Friday night while Robert and Jenna Dunn-trained stablemate I Dream Of Jeannie has gone up four places to 14th following her brave second in the same race.

During the week both Nellie Doyle and Eurostyle were withdrawn from the field.

The winner of Friday night’s Canterbury Park Trotting Cup (9.04pm) at Addington will seal a place in the Dominion field. It’s the last of the automatic qualifiers as is the Canterbury Classic for the New Zealand Cup (9.35pm).

Pinseeker will be part of a stellar line-up in that race. Following his second fresh up at Addington last Friday he goes from 18 to 16th – his promotion also helped by the withdrawal of Chase A Dream who had been 12th in the rankings.

Across the Tasman there’ll be plenty of interest in Saturday night’s Victoria Cup after Leap To Fame’s upset defeat last weekend.

It’s the one feature across the Tasman he hasn’t won and the draws were not kind to him. He has drawn one the second row over 2240 metres.  

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