A bumper crowd is expected on Saturday night at Albion Park, Brisbane, when the four-time Inter Dominion Championship winner Blacks A Fake continues his build-up to the $200,000 Queensland Pacing Championship to be held on Saturday, 30th October.
Following his record-breaking fourth win in the Inter Dominion Championships at Menangle Park in March over Miracle Mile and New Zealand Cup winner Monkey King, Blacks A Fake was given a four-month layoff before returning to the track with a fifth place finish on 3rd July, over 1660m. Another break of two months followed before winning over 1660m at Albion Park on 14th September, in which he recorded a career-best time of 1:53.8 for the mile trip.
The ten-year-old multi-millionaire has been drawn ten of ten for Saturday’s Southern Queensland Plumbing Party Ltd Pace over 2138m, a distance he was last successful over on 14th November 2009. This tough draw, on the second row and widest of all, is the biggest threat in attempting to register a 63rd Australian harness racing career win.
With the draw being made on the basis of stakes money won in the last six starts, a place chance can be given to both Destreos (drawn 1) and Dartmoor (drawn 3), both of whom have been struggling with consistently poor draw positions. Destreos arrives on the back of fourteen straight losses, whilst Dartmoor has not won since landing a 2130m contest at Gloucester Park on 5th June 2009, twenty eight starts ago.
The in-form Beef City Beau is most likely to follow home Blacks A Fake, having won four of his last five starts. This 7-year-old gelding has won or been placed 22 times from 35 starts over this trip of 2138m, including three wins from his last three attempts.
All eyes, however, will be on Blacks A Fake and driver Natalie Rasmussen as they look to add a further $11,000 in prize money to the $4,182,353 already in the bank. Make sure you keep a close eye on the harness racing results this weekend!
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