By John Dunne (HRV)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The winner returned a mile rate of 1:59.8 which is five seconds outside the track record.<\/p>\n
Kanena Provlima is trained by KerryAnn Morris who drove the stable mate Pete Said So which finished sixth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been thrilled with Kanena Provlima \u2013 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Kanena Provlima is owned by Ben Settree from the Bathurst based Brooklyn Lodge Standardbreds.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n