Tintin In America will continue to race for the ATC Trot 2008 Syndicate when he contests the $100,000 Noel Taylor Mile at Alexandra Park tomorrow night.
The syndicate overwhelmingly voted to turn down an $800,000 offer for the 4yr-old entire at a meeting last Thursday.
Tintin In America has recorded 13 wins and 11 placings in 31 starts for $716,136.
He has not raced since finishing half a neck second to Monkey King in the Auckland Cup on March 12.
The $2.1 million payment to the ATC Trot 2006 syndicate members from the unconditional sale of Changeover to Nevele R Stud is due in the next two weeks.
The ATC Trot 2005 Syndicate last Thursday accepted an offer of $100,000 from America for Awesome Armbro.
The speedy 7yr-old won 19 races and recorded 24 placings for stakes of $648,754.
• Owner Bob Proberts expects Bonavista Bay to win the Taylor Mile.
"I think he will lead and we don't hand up, so I think he will win," Proberts said.
"I was happy with how he handled the workout on Tuesday," trainer Mark Reed said.
• The 2yr-old Charger was five seconds under the qualifying time in his heat at the Ashburton trials yesterday.
Charger recorded 3.05 for the 2400m (mobile).
He is by Christian Cullen from Birchbrook and trained by Tim Butt.
Birchbrook (Soky's Atom-Going Royce) was a winner.
She has left Willowbrook (by In The Pocket), who has won twice.
Tennis Ball, a last-start winner at Addington on April 9, beat his stablemate Power Of Tara by a nose, running the last 800m in 58.8, the final 400 in 26.8.
• She's A Mod was 5.6sec under the required time when she qualified at Wyndham yesterday.
She's A Mod is a 3yr-old by Washington VC from Supamodel and is trained by Barry Gibson-Smith.
