$200,000 night looming at Globe Derby Park

Globe Derby Park will take centre stage on the national harness racing sphere on Saturday night with eight Southern Cross Series Finals to be conducted offering total prizemoney of a hefty $200,000.

In a real racing rarity, four previous Southern Cross champions in Zenario, Bay Jim Major, Brighton and Delightful Tammy return to Globe Derby and each are a realistic chance to repeat the dose.

Indeed, it would be a shock if three of the four – Zenario, Brighton and Bay Jim Major fail to deliver in the $35,000 Alabar Final for three-year-old colts and geldings, the $35,000 Ladbroke’s Final for three-year-old fillies and the Kevin and Kay Seymour four-year-old entires and geldings’ Final respectively.

Delightful Tammy faces a far more formidable task from the outside draw in the Cobbitty Equine Farm Final for four-year-old and older mares.  The 2023 Southern Cross three-year-old champion, Delightful Tammy, despite not having won a race since September, holds a distinct class edge over her rivals.

The $35,000 Final of the Bellmoure Park Stud sponsored division for two-year-old colts and geldings looks a wide open affair. The Golden Nursery winner Hez So Royal, a winner of six of his 10 starts, and the other heat winner Gym Junky are rated the leading two fancies.

The Victorian raider Hilltop Blossom, the winner of the fastest heat and before that a creditable fourth in the Vicbred Super Series Final, looks to have a mortgage on the $35,000 Allenby Lodge Stud Final for two-year-old fillies from the pole.

Similarly, the unbeaten Ideology, a member of Ryan Hryhorec’s team, looks a cut above his rivals in the $20,000 Aldebaran Park Southern Cross Final for two-year-old trotters, while his stablemate Ten Eagles appears the one to beat in the $20,000 three-year-old trotters’ division.

The first of 11 events is scheduled for 5.34pm (ACDT time).

by Peter Wharton for Harnesslink