More Justice for Metro

By Tim O’Connor (HRV)

John Justice raised eyebrows with his post-race comments about Mufasa Metro following a 25m Melton obliteration earlier this month, but his tag as a better horse than 1990s top-liner Lenin might not be off the mark if a dominant display in the DNR Logistics Vulcan Trotters Free For All is anything to go by.

In clearly his biggest test since arriving in Australia, the four-year-old Kiwi led and comfortably handled a quality field of rivals to win the Group 3 feature.

He clocked closing quarters of 29.2sec and 28.1sec for a mile rate of 1:56.0min over the 1720m sprint trip.

Brent Lilley’s star filly-turned-mare Queen Elida (Anthony Butt) jumped out of the ground to run second in what was a brilliant first-up performance, while Sundons Courage (Chris Angove/Brad Angove) took the trail behind Mufasa Metro and boxed on well for third.

Lenin, of course, was a star for the Justice stable through the early to mid-1990s, with the Group 1-winning trotter finishing his career with 41 victories from 107 starts and close to $300,000 in prizemoney.

Not all those runs were for Justice, but he certainly had his fair share of fun with the son of Noodlum before his racing days came to an end in 1996.

Mufasa Metro’s seventh career victory – and fifth here in Australia – was the second leg of winning double for the Toolern Vale horseman after Huli Nien sprinted best to narrowly take out the Mimosa Homes Claiming Pace.

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