Sport
8 September, 2021
Back on the track
HARNESS Racing returns to Donaldson Park Wedderburn this Sunday. But the club’s second meeting of the year will be without crowds in line with current COVID restrictions. The highlight of Sunday’s meeting will be the $12,000 Inglewood Mitre 10...
HARNESS Racing returns to Donaldson Park Wedderburn this Sunday.
But the club’s second meeting of the year will be without crowds in line with current COVID restrictions.
The highlight of Sunday’s meeting will be the $12,000 Inglewood Mitre 10 Calder Pacing Cup over 2150 metres, sponsored by Inglewood Mitre 10 proprietors Sue and Peter Moore.
Fields for the eight-race program were to be declared yesterday.
All pace races will be mobile starts with a standing start for trotters’ handicap over 2555 metres.
The 2018 winner of the Inglewood Mitre 10 Calder Pacing Cup was the ill-fated Erico, owned and trained in Inglewood by Grant Innes who won in then track record time of 1.56.9.
District trained trotter Chissy was successful at Geelong last Saturday night and provided some wonderful ties to Wedderburn district.
Chissy was bred by Jason McNulty and is owned by the McNulty family, trained by Jason McNulty and well driven by young up and coming Charlton reinsman Ryan Sanderson.
Chissy was named after the late Alan Chisholm who was closely related to the McNulty family.
Alan Chisholm had a lot of success with his horses and loved trotters especially Val Curl who was trained by Jack Hargreaves.
Val Curl won four races at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds during the 70s for Alan and Jack including on race off 48 yards behind scratch, which was a hard thing to achieve.
The ties to the district continue as Chissy is trained by Danny Bouchea who was owned, trained and driven by Nick Youngson. Nick is Alan Chisholm’s grandson.
And of course, Danny Bouchea spent some time doing stud duties for Doc Hargreaves.
Harness Racing Saturday night is at Bendigo. My tips are Race 3 No 2 Powderkeg and Race 7 No 7 Wolf Stride.