Let Me Thru streets his rivals to win last year's Breeders Crown final. He has the draw to repeat the dose in this Friday night's Vicbred final
Let Me Thru's quest to become the first trotter to follow Tabcorp Australasian Breeders Crown glory with Vicbred Super Series success at four received a significant boost at this morning's barrier draw.
The Chris Lang-trained-and-driven gun, a winner of eight of his 14 starts, drew perfectly in barrier two for Friday night's 2240-metre Cammaroto Poultry-sponsored $50,000 event at Tabcorp Park, Melton.
It gives him the chance to go one better than Djerriwarrh, who bumped into champion trotting mare La Coocaracha in the Vicbred final after claiming the inaugural Breeders Crown three-year-old trotters' trophy in 2000.
Remarkably, Right Interest - another Chris Lang-trained performer - is the only other horse to contest the Vicbred series after winning the Breeders Crown at three, but he failed to make the semis.
Let Me Thru showed at Kilmore last Friday that he was poised to create history with an arrogant heat win over last year's Victoria Trotters Derby champion, Arizona Blue.
The Derby heroine then fared awfully at the draw, landing barrier 12, one spot inside Chris Alford's out-of-the-draw Down Under Muscles, who is shooting for a fifth-straight win in the Group 1 final.
That trio dominate Harness Racing Victoria price assessor Bill Hutchison's market. "Hutchy" marked Let Me Thru the $1.70 favourite ahead of Down Under Muscles ($3.80) with Arizona Blue a $7 chance.
The 7.42pm trotters' final is the feature of a big night of Vicbred action for the four-year-olds with a pair of $20,000 semi finals for the colts and geldings to also be run.
Defending champion Villagem is the headline act of semi one, which kicks off the program at 6.42pm, but the appearance of Bonavista Bay in the second semi (at 9.12pm) is one of the highlights of the program.
The superstar four-year-old, now in the care of Mike Reed, will be back in action just a week after his game second to Tintin In America in the Group 1 Messenger Championship in Auckland.
The trotting final isn't the meeting's only black-type event with former Vicbred four-year-old champion Ronerail to chase back-to-back Group 3 wins in the $20,000 Knight Pistol Trotters Cup (2760m mobile) at 8.12pm.
Make Mine Cullen headlines a Group 1-quality field in the $20,000 Harness Breeders Vic Cinderella Stakes (2240m) at 8.42pm, an hour before class acts Our Malabar and Karlsruhe contest the $20,000 Active Electrical Distributors Bold David Free-For-All (2240m).
