No ‘Provlima’ for pacer

By John Dunne (HRV)

NSW pacer Kanena Provlima landed a betting plunge and made amends for its Shepparton Cup defeat last week when it led all the way in the $100,000 Decoglaze Ballarat Pacing Cup last Saturday night.

Backed in from $19 into $4, Kanena Provlima found the early lead and with no mid race pressure evident, driver David Moran was allowed to slow the tempo in a pedestrian like 64.5 first half of the last mile.

Kate Gath opted to ease out of the early speed on the $3.30 favorite Catch A Wave from a wide front row draw and settled towards the rear of the field.

Mach Dan made an early move to loop the field and sat parked outside Kanena Provlima with Catch A Wave making its move three wide without cover with 800 metres to travel.

Catch A Wave appeared to be travelling well on the home turn however Kanena Provlima appreciated having all the favours in the lead reeling off a 26 second last 400 metres, to score comfortably from Beyond Delight and Cya Art.

The winner returned a mile rate of 1:59.8 which is five seconds outside the track record.

Kanena Provlima is trained by KerryAnn Morris who drove the stable mate Pete Said So which finished sixth.

“We’ve been thrilled with Kanena Provlima – his run last week at Shepparton was really good and these two horses have done a fair bit of travelling but they seem to keep popping up and getting better,” she said.

Kanena Provlima is owned by Ben Settree from the Bathurst based Brooklyn Lodge Standardbreds.

Morris said both Kanena Provlima and Pete Said So will be nominated for the Group 1 Hunter Cup at Melton in a fortnight (Feb 3).