Shartin highlights big week

Tintin In America’s champion daughter Shartin put an exclamation mark on her 2020 campaign when she smashed her own all-age track record in winning the $100,000 Clara Barton Distaff Pace at Plainridge Park, Massachusetts on Sunday (July 25).

Shartin stopped the teletimer in 1:48.2, only 0.2 outside the world record for an aged pacing mare over a five-eighths track which she jointly co-owns. It was her 44th success and increased her stake tally to $2,244,946.

Another New Zealand-bred Tintin In America winner was Kiwi Tintin, who scored in 1:56 at Saratoga Raceway, New York.

World champion Warrawee Needy, a studmate of Tintin In America at Yirribee Pacing Stud, continues to churn out the winners in North America. The two-year-old filly Need To Know (1:52) and three-year-old colt PLD Needy (1:59.2) won at Charlottetown Driving Park and Hippodrome 3R respectively last week.

Million Dollar Cam’s exciting three-year-old daughter Didnt I completed a hat trick and made it five out of eight this season when she led from end-to-end in 1:56.9 at Shepparton, while Jamieson Steele won for the seventh time, clocking 1:55.2 at the same track.

Renaissance Man, who is standing his first season at Yirribee, was represented by another winner from his second Western Australian crop in the three-year-old Sukhovey Windman. Renaissance Man has sired eight individual winners from 27 foals – a creditable 30 percent winners-to-foals ratio.

A pair of Yirribee Pacing Stud bred winners recently were Louth Park Watch (by Lombo Pocket Watch), who saluted in a career-best 1:57.8 at Newcastle, and the two-year-old Eagle Commander (1:58.7, Bathurst).

Peter Wharton