Champion reinswoman Kerryn Gath last night became the youngest harness racing driver in Australasia, male or female, to drive 2000 winners.
At 28 years and 10 months of age, the four-time Australian champion shaved three years off the previous mark held by Chris Alford.
After starting yesterday on 1997 winners, Gath piloted a winner at Maryborough in the afternoon before grabbing a double last night at Kilmore.
Her 2000th career win came courtesy of a barnstorming finish by Village Thriller to claim the seventh event at Kilmore, the Bayswater Jayco Pace.
Her recent domination of the sport is epitomised by the fact she only drove her 1000th career winner at Bendigo on March 23, 2002.
A four-time Australian premiership winner, Gath became just the second female in the world to reach the milestone behind German veteran Rita Drees.
Since piloting her first winner as a 16-year-old at Ararat, Gath has developed into the hottest property in Australian harness racing so much so that 4000 motorists a day now pass signs erected in her honour at the entry points to her hometown of Great Western.
An Australasian record holder for the most wins in a season and at a single meeting, Gath was also just the second female to drive a European Group 1 winner, doing so with Knight Pistol in Norway as a 21-year-old.
