Big Wheels keeps on rolling

Brilliant A Rocknroll Dance four-year-old Big Wheels posted his eighth success for the season and his 17^th lifetime when he led throughout in harness racing’s Garrard’s Horse & Hound Open at Albion Park.

The gelding rated a slick 1:52.6 for 1660 metres with the closing 800 in 54.4 seconds.

Big Wheels has now earned more than $260,000 in stakes.

On the same night the A Rocknroll Dance gelding Whereyabinboppin hoisted a new lifetime mark of 1:50.1 when he emerged successful in the Free-for-all at Menangle. The win earned the six-year-old a golden ticket into this week’s SEN Track’s Inter Dominion Championships in Victoria.

A Rocknroll Dance enjoyed another huge week with 25 individual winners across three countries.

The two-year-old Jamaican Rock notched his fourth win from only five starts when he captured the SA Lordship Stakes at Globe Derby Park, while the three-year-old Flash Jimmy finished runner-up in the track record-breaking $200,000 Breeders Crown Final at Melton.

Other Australian winners included the Albion Park victor Strong Response (1:57.2), Allambie (Redcliffe), the 1:52.2 Menangle winner Mini Mine Yet NZ, Tic Tact (1:56.8), the two-year-old filly Nosweetsforyou (1:56.1), Onehandonebounce and Island Rocknroll, who completed a hat trick at Albury.

In New Zealand, A Rocknroll Dance sired a winning double at Auckland with a pair of three-year-old fillies in Forever A Dancer (1:55.1) and Excuse The Pace (1:59.6), while the three-year-old Dancing Desire scored for the second time at Timaru.

Former NSW mare No Win No Feed headed up a swag of A Rocknroll Dance winners in North America for the week when she won a $30,000 Open in 1:52.8 at Plainridge Park, Massachusetts. It was her 11^th win for the season and spiked her seasonal earnings to almost $235,000.

A Rocknroll Dance, a Top Ten sire in Australia for both earnings and winners, stands at the Somerset Farms stud, near Brisbane, of Pete and Chantal McMullen.

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink