2017 Christmas Cup Review
The 2017 Christmas Cup was run last night at Angle Park in front of a large festive crowd and they saw another outstanding performance by Zinfandel Zara who continues to go from strength to strength in her short career.
Trained by Gavin Harris she showed another string to her bow when she come from third, just of the speed and showed terrific acceleration over the concluding stages to race past her rivals and win in brilliant style.
It was a crack 6 dog field that greeted the starter with Slipper’s Time for Barry Jones again showing early pace to lead the field out of the front straight followed by High Eden Frost for Jan Jones and Zinfandel Zara wide on the track. Strong types Hukanui for Tony Rasmussen worked his way to fourth while both Hot Marlow for Steve Meimetis and Pyredos Monelli for Ben Rawlings settled at the tail of the field after slow beginnings.
Down the back straight it looked as if Zinfandel Zara could be in trouble, in particular as Hukanui was so close just to her inside but as they left the back straight Zinfandel Zara was able to blast past her rivals around the outside while Hukanui found trouble looking for an inside run and had his momentum stopped.
The daughter of Fabregas and Wikena stopped the clock at a brilliant 29.84 with splits of 4.40 and 16.97 in winning by almost 2 lengths and now has the impressive career record of 6 wins from just 7 starts. Hukanui again ran a mighty race to grab second on the inside and a win is not too far away for him while Pyredos Monelli came from the clouds to run third with his supporters far from disappointed about his effort.
It was a fantastic contest with all 6 greyhounds racing in terrific heart however Zinfandel Zara again showed she could be just that little bit special with another feature race win.