Bar set High for Gait's rivals in Trotters Oaks

01 June 2016 | Matt Jackson
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Chris Alford guides High Gait home in the Need for Speed Princess Final earlier this year at Tabcorp Park Melton trots.

Chris Alford guides High Gait home in the Need for Speed Princess Final earlier this year at Tabcorp Park Melton trots.

High Gait gets her chance to atone for a recent string of minor placings in Friday night’s Noel Simpson Memorial Victoria Trotters Oaks at Tabcorp Park Melton.

The daughter of Muscles Yankee (fourth on the Australian 3YO trotting sires’ list this season) out of Regal Volo, bred by Breckon Bloodstock, has drawn barrier 10 in the 2240-metre Group 1 race, which carries a purse of $60,575.

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The multiple classic-winning youngster has been out of the winners’ list since March 12 when she won the Need for Speed Final, but trainer Nicole Molander said she was particularly pleased with High Gait’s last-start effort in the New South Wales Trotters Oaks at Menangle.

“She had a pretty hard run the other day … she still went very good, especially with the run she had,” Molander said.

“They ran a world record time for three-year-old fillies over the 2400m and she was wide then parked the whole way.

“If she had have had the sit on another runner then she would have finished over the top of them.”

Champion reinsman Chris Alford has won five races aboard High Gait.

“Chris is a top driver to have on from the tricky draw, so that will be his job,” Molander said.

Molander said Pizza Queen and Keayang Yankee were two major dangers in what looks an open Trotters Oaks field.

 

Media enquiries:

Cody Winnell (HRV Media/Communications Manager)
t: 03 8378 0288 | e: cwinnell@hrv.org.au | tw: @codywinnell

 

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