Arrhythmia is set to continue her undefeated streak as she competes in the Tassie Wash Stakes (1680m) this Sunday in Launceston.
The daughter of Vincent won on debut in a two-year-old event on 11 May for trainer Emma Stewart before being transferred to the Tammy Langley stable, where she won at her next start on 8 June, overcoming a wide second-row draw to defeat the older 45 to 49 national rating pacers in 1:58.9s, and in doing so, she recorded the third quickest individual last-half mile of the meeting in 55.83s.
“There haven’t been any suitable two-year-old races for her, so we have had to go a different path.
“You don’t see too many two-year-olds do what she did, to come from where she did to knuckle down and pick them up. I thought she was super,” said the Langley stable’s main driver, Dylan Ford.
The filly has drawn barrier two on Sunday, where the state’s leading driver is expecting another forward showing.
“I would like to see her in front, but I’m not too fazed wherever she is in the run.
“I’m not sure how long she will be here before heading back to Melbourne,” the driver explained.
Zav Dan, a half-relation to Group 1 winners Fox Dan and Ideal Dan, will make his race track debut in the opening race, a two-year-old for pacers with no more than one lifetime win over 1680m.
The American Ideal colt was placed in a Bacchus Marsh trial in Victoria in late May before winning a Hobart trial on Monday in 2:08.1s.
“He hasn’t been down here too long. He is green but gives the impression he is going to be a nice horse.
“I know the trial wasn’t run in fast time, but from where he was to where he ended up, his last quarter would have been slick,” the driver said.
Gawn lines up in the night’s feature race, the $20,000 Launceston Discretionary (2200m) for the Ford and Langley combination, and is second-up from a spell after a last-start fourth in the Ulverstone Cup.
“If he could step and find himself in front, he could give them something to chase, but he is one of those horses you don’t know what you have until race day.
The three horses mentioned above have one thing in common: Geelong businessman Danny Zavitsanos is among the ownership group.
“I have never spoken to him, but it started off with Hammer Dan, and now we have about 10 for him.
“A few of them will go back to Melbourne, and it’s a relationship we wouldn’t change.”
In other news, trainer Bianca Heenan has her Inter Dominion hopeful Jorge Street in Queensland.
The Group 1 Tasmania Cup winner won a trial at Albion Park, winning by 2.2m in 1:55.0s, and then won a standing start trial at Redcliffe by 16.7m on Thursday.
Jorge Street is now expected to line up in the Group 2 Redcliffe Gold Cup next weekend.
