Improving pacer Barrett helped driver Sheree Tomlinson bag a winning treble with an impressive victory at Roxburgh yesterday.
The Mark Jones-trained 3yr-old chased down the hot favourite, Kendra, to cause an slight upset in race 10.
Barrett produced a big finish from last at the 600m to beat the front-running Kendra by half a neck.
Barrett has thrived while racing in the South over the holiday period.
After winning at the Wairio Cup meeting, the pacer went a big race to run fourth in a Southland nugget final behind Kendra’s classy stablemate, Mossdale Art.
Barrett may share the same name as a trio of All Black brothers, but he is a born-and-bred Australian.
Trainer Mark Jones bought the horse from a Sydney yearling sale in 2017 for $A$107,500.
Tomlinson also won with Stay Aboard and Rozzanno, the treble of victories helping her retake the lead in the national junior drivers premiership with 24 wins.
Dazzle Me was another 3yr-old that make a big impression when winning yesterday.
The American Ideal pacer scorched away from his maiden opposition for an emphatic six-length victory.
Dazzle Me did not come with the same price-tag as Barrett. He was bought for just $12,500 at the New Zealand Premier Yearling Sales in Christchurch by trainer Alister Black.
With a group 1 winning dam, Roxburgh winner Bunter’s Gold would have fitted in well at the same sale but never got there, because of Roxburgh Trotting Club president Bill Bain.
Bain enjoyed success at his club’s annual race day when Bunter’s Dream scored a maiden victory.
The win followed Central Otago Trotting Club president Graham Sinnamon winning with Gabby’s Star on his club’s big day on Wednesday.
Bunter’s Gold ran to a deserved win after receiving a perfect run in the trail throughout from trainer-driver Peter Hunter.
Bain races the Bettor’s Delight filly from Western Dream with wife Pauline.
The victory rewarded Bain’s good eye for a horse. He bought the filly from breeders Vin and Daphne Devery, of Invercargill, when she was a weanling.
• TAB services will be shut down tomorrow evening because of an upgrade to its website and mobile apps.
In an email to customers, the TAB said it would turn off its existing website and app between 7pm Sunday and noon Monday and move its customer data to a new system.
The shutdown has resulted in a very early start for tomorrow’s Wyndham Harness Racing Club’s meeting at Cromwell.
The first race is set to go at the unusual hour of 10.38am.Two other domestic meetings to be run tomorrow, at Greymouth and Manukau, look to be unaffected.
Greymouth’s first race is set for 12.22pm and the Manukau meeting will start at 1.23pm.
