Tim O'Connor picks his favourite bits from the harness racing week that was and the one ahead...
It was the perfect entrée and each week will get bigger and better from here.
That’s the best way to describe last Saturday night where stars from three different states continued their build-ups to the huge riches across a string of great races at Albion Park next month.
Over the past 20 years, Peter Judd and his wife Judy and their son Craig and daughter Tracey have turned Benstud Standardbreds from a hobby breeding farm into one of the leading standardbred breeding nurseries in the country.
In a harness racing season full of surprises, what Greg Sugars has achieved might just be the greatest.
The harness season ends tomorrow night with the $250,000 Trillian Trust Auckland Cup meeting, with Sugars trying to win the Cup for the second time in seven months with Better Eclipse.
Bronte Nieuwenburg has taken a deep dive into the upcoming Saturday night meeting at Melton, using stats and sectional times to break down the key runners.
Victorian-trained trotters have dominated the first quarter of the Australasian season - and the numbers tell the story.