FORBURY PARK TC, Thursday, November 29 Race 5: MICHELLE (14, Sheree Tomlinson), 2200m std: “Racing good and providing she trots and gets a good run is a good chance.” OAMARU HRC, Saturday, December 1 Race 3: BARRETT (5, Mark), 2000m std: “Stand start and distance suits, and a top three chance.” Race 4: MICHELLE (12, UR 2, Matthew Williamson), 2000m std: “Suitable race and a good chance.” Race 6: ROCK N JOY (8, Clark Barron), mob. 2000m: “Drawn wide but good first-up run and can place.” METHVEN TC, Sunday, December 2 Race 4: LETS HUSTLE (13, Laura McKay), mob. 2300m: …
Sheree all-the-way in Aust. Young Drivers Champ
SHEREE TOMLINSON FRONT-RUNNING WINNER Overport Lodge-based junior reinswoman Sheree Tomlinson added to a growing record for Mark Jones employees in the Australasian Young Drivers Championship in Queensland in late November, 2018. Sheree joined former employee Robbie Close as the 2015 Australasian Young Drivers Championship winner, with Michelle Neilson, also employed by Mark that term, third. Mark himself won the Australasian title when a champion junior in 2000. Sheree, who made a flying start, winning the first two heats, also picked up a third win, and recorded two seconds and a third in the nine heat series, held at Albion Park …
Sunoflindenny becomes six-figure earner in Aust.
SUNOFLINDENNY LIFTS EARNINGS PAST $100K Former Overport Lodge trotters and pacers have had a successful week with Sunoflindenny having a career defining moment in Perth on Friday night. The Butterworth Racing Syndicate-owned squaregaiter pushed his earnings past the $100,000 mark with a comfortable win in the Cowden Since 1972 SS Trot. Sunoflindenny stepped smartly off the 20m line to take up the running for top driver Chris Lewis, who controlled the rest of the race from the front end. The nine-year-old Sundon-Yankee Diedre gelding held Rocknroll Baby, who trailed, by 1.9 metres in a 2:04 rate for the 2503m. Sunoflindenny, …
GERALDINE TC, BANKS PENIN. TC, Nov. 24-25
GERALDINE TC, Saturday, November 24 Race 3: MICHELLE (16, Mark), 1950m std: “Was good fresh up but haven’t been as happy with her since, so need luck.” Race 4: BARRETT (15, Mark), 2500m std: “Drawn terrible and unknown on grass so take on trust.” Race 11: LETS HUSTLE (7, Laura McKay), mob. 1850m: “Ran home ok first-up but drawing wide over the short trip makes it hard.” Outside drives Race 2: THAT ALEXANDER GUY (1), mob. 1850m: “Gets a draw to show some form.” Race 5: TOUCHE (5), mob. 1850m: “One-paced horse who has an upset place chance.” BANKS PENINSULA …
Delightfulmemphisn wins for Dexter Dunn
DELIGHTFUL MEMPHIS SCORES MEADOWLANDS WIN Former 10-time leading NZ driver Dexter Dunn racked up his 61st USA win since late August when guiding Delightfulmemphisn to win at the Meadowlands on November 9. This was the first USA win for the former Overport Lodge mare, who raced in Australasia as Delightful Memphis. Delightfulmemphisn was recording her second win in 10 US starts after having her preparation interrupted by a bout of sickness for the Richard “Nifty” Norman stable. Dexter Dunn overcame the eight gate with her in a $11,500 fillies and mares pace, working to the front at the half, easing …
ASHBURTON TC, Thursday, November 15
ASHBURTON TC, Thursday, November 15 Race 3: BARRETT (16, Mark), 2400m std: “Drawn bad and looking for luck and improvement from first-up run.” Race 5: MICHELLE (15, Mark), 2400m std: “Fresh for this and will take a lot of benefit from the run but is good enough to be a chance.” Race 7: SMOKE N REACTOR (3, Sheree Tomlinson) & LETS HUSTLE (8, Laura McKay), mob. 1609m: “No trials so is a big ask for Smoke N Reactor but her work has been fine and an each- way chance.” “Let Hustle is fresh-up and will need the run. Will be …
Rangiora HRC, Friday, November 9
RANGIORA HRC, Friday, November 9 Race 6: BARRETT (1, Sheree Tomlinson), 2600m std: “Gets in a winnable race but has got to bring good manners and improvement from his first-up run.”
Overport Lodge drivers have first NZ Cup starts
NZ HARNESS NEWS, November 8, 2018 SAMANTHA OTTLEY (AND SHEREE TOMLINSON) HAVE FIRST NZ CUP DRIVES Driver Samantha Ottley will start chasing her New Zealand Cup dream with Forgotten Highway on Tuesday. The group 1 winning reinswoman will have her first drive in the 3200m feature behind the Mitchell Kerr-trained pacer. Ottley is thrilled to have booked her chance to win New Zealand’s greatest race. “It is the biggest race of the year and you dream of having a drive in it and it is finally happening,” she said. Ottley, Kerr and Forgotten Highway, form what could be considered a …
Injury forces Chicago Bull out of NZ Cup
NZ Harness News, October 30, 2018 CHICAGO BULL SIDELINED WITH FRACTURES The connections of Western Australian pacer Chicago Bull have been dealt a shocking blow after their pacer was ruled out of the New Zealand Cup on Tuesday with a broken back. A standard veterinary procedure turned into a nightmare when the horse had an anaphylactic reaction to an intravenous injection on Saturday morning. Chicago Bull was being given fluids as a precautionary measure after emphatically winning his first start in New Zealand start for the Hall stable on Friday night. The horse flipped over and landed on his back …
Kaikoura TC, Sunday, October 28
KAIKOURA TC, Sunday, October 28 Race 4: BARRETT (10, Samantha Ottley), 2400m std: “Oz-bred colt, who has a lot to learn and not easy from the draw, but an upset place chance.” Race 6: MICHELLE (SCR).