Albion Park’s Queensland Pacing Championship is undoubtedly the highlight of the harness racing action on Saturday’s card, although a little taste of what could be to come is in the $30,000 Rio Sulkies And Harness M0 Pacing Series Final earlier on in the card.
A highly competitive field of 12 has assembled and many come into the race in very good form. This is as wide open as it can get, but there will be value to be found in the harness racing odds.
On the gate, Phillip Chappenden’s Jaccka Limon must have a great chance. The horse, who has just over a 25 percent strike rate, qualified for this with a brave second place in a fair time back on the 16th October. A win here since would have put him spot on for this final and he rates a decent win bet.
Caesar Supreme, trained and driven by Darrell Graham, is a horse to look out for and is another well drawn on the first line. He was runner-up in Heat 1 of this series earlier in the month and in all honesty will have to upgrade his performance from last time out when just scraping home under the two-minute barrier. However, the 4yo is a good, honest sort who never runs a bad race and is likely to be there or thereabouts at the end at decent odds.
On the second line, Natalie Rasmussen will be sat behind Mega Alexander, a 5yo from the stable of W F Dixon in pursuit of a four-timer. His form looks very solid and, despite being on the second line, he is drawn in 1 so it’s not all bad. The only worry with this gelding is that, despite impressive form figures, he can occasionally throw in the odd slow time and there will be little margin for error here.
John McCarthy’s George Dubya is another to be considered. He was only just behind Jaccka Limon in their heat and is one who keeps hitting the money.
A fiercely competitive heat, but we will take Jaccka Limon to win seeing as there are holes to be picked with a few of the others. He may well do the job but it won’t be by far.
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