By John Dunne (HRV)<\/p>\n
Champion trotter Just Believe stamped his seemingly invincible status in this part of the world when he accounted for a crack line up in the Aldebaran Park The Knight Pistol at Ballarat last Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Trained at Larajay Farm in Myrniong by Jess Tubbs and driven by Greg Sugars, he said he was content to sit parked on Just Believe ($1.28 fav) on the outside of the leader Mufasa Metro with the French stallion Callmethebreeze camped on the favourite\u2019s back in the one out one back trail.<\/p>\n
Just Believe lengthened stride around the home turn before forging clear on straightening, and with the crowd roaring, the son of Orlando Vinci racked up his sixth consecutive win since returning from contesting the Elitlopp in Sweden.<\/p>\n
Both the runner up Callmethebreeze and third placed Keayang Ignite were excellent efforts behind the benchmark of Australasian trotting.<\/p>\n
Sugars said he was wary of the calibre of those horses in pursuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe French horse was the query, and he was on our back and John (Justice) drove to beat us, so that was the only worry in the back of my mind that the French horse was getting such a good trip and there were horses like Arcee Phoenix being a swooper late,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Just Believe is such a good racehorse that he settles and it doesn\u2019t matter what the speed is as when you ask him to go he really finds that acceleration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sugars admitted the lack of recent racing was a slight concern given the quality of his rivals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were pretty happy with him coming into the race but not having a run since the Inter Dominion we were slightly vulnerable, but I could tell with how well he was travelling that he was on song,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By John Dunne (HRV) Champion trotter Just Believe stamped his seemingly invincible status in this part of the world when he accounted for a crack line up in the Aldebaran Park The Knight Pistol at Ballarat last Saturday night. Trained at Larajay Farm in Myrniong by Jess Tubbs and driven by Greg Sugars, he said […]<\/p>\n