Gold Cup for Harry

By John Dunne (HRV)

ACCOMPLISHED freelance reinsman John Caldow captured his first Group 3 John Slack Memorial Trotters Cup when he partnered the Chris Lang trained Bullion Harry to victory in the G3 Trotters Cup last Saturday.

Despite being caught leading the outside horses, Bullion Harry ($9.50) ranged up beside the leader Sleepee around the home turn before forging clear in the home straight to score by 10 metres from Nephew Of Sonoko and Majestical Belle.

Caldow, who was having his first drive on Bullion Harry, was impressed with the winner’s levels of stamina.

“He went terrific, it was a really good run,” Caldow said.

“Nothing went right in the run tonight but it didn’t seem to matter in the end,” he said.

Caldow said he was confident of victory rounding the home turn on the son of Muscle Hill.

“I tried to get cover early and it just wasn’t coming about but then I just clicked him at the 400 as I could see Sleepee got a bit wobbly around the corner and my bloke found a length and away he went,” he said.

Caldow acknowledged Lang’s standing in harness racing as a master mentor of trotters.

“Chris is just a great trainer, he always gets his horses going at their peak on the good nights and he just does it over and over again and obviously tonight he’s done the same,” he said.

The $2.80 favourite Chinese Whisper worked around the field early to find the lead but then tended to over race and gave ground with 400 metres to travel.

Bullion Harry, who is raced in the same interests as Catch A Wave, has now won 10 races and amassed almost $130,000 in prize money.