Chris Alford won the 4000th race of his career at Bendigo on Saturday night
Chris Alford has won most of the biggest races on the Australian harness calendar, but his win aboard Mapua Legend in Saturday night’s Maffioso C1 Pace at Bendigo will forever be special.
The $5000 event saw the champion Bolinda reinsman join Gavin Lang as the only drivers in Australian harness history to partner 4000 winners.
Alford followed up a good night at Melton’s Tabcorp Park on Friday night, when he partnered three winners, to notch the milestone in the fifth race on tonight’s card.
The 42-year-old used 25,033 drives to amass his 4000 winners, which consists of 3988 wins in Australia, nine in New Zealand and three in Germany during the 1997 World Drivers’ Championship.
He has also partnered 3331 Australian second placegetters and 3324 thirds for more than $27,000,000 in stakes.
His biggest victory came aboard Golden Reign in the 1995 Inter Dominion, on whom he also won that year’s Victoria Cup, while he has also won Hunter Cups with Paris Affair (1999), Mont Denver Gold (2002) and Sting Lika Bee (2007).
Alford also shares the record for the most Tabcorp Australasian Breeders Crown final wins of six with Lang, who has driven 4457 winners in total.
