Turnbull chasing a Group 1 Challenge

It has been five years since star harness racing driver Amanda Turnbull last inked her name on the list of Group 1 NSW Breeders Challenge winners, but if Wednesday night (Oct. 12) is any indication she could very well do it again this season.

On Wednesday night the Bathurst Harness Racing Club hosted four three-year-old heats of this season’s NSW Breeders Challenge series – two for fillies, two for colts and geldings.

Turnbull won three of them and was runner-up in the other.

While Turnbull still has semi-finals and then the final – both at Menangle – to conquer if she wants to add more Group 1 success to an already impressive resume, she’s a driver that you can never write off.

She last won a NSW Breeders Challenge major series final in 2017 with four-year-old mare Eye See Diamonds. Turnbull’s chance beat out the short-priced favourite by a nose in a 1:52.1 mile rate.

The year before that Turnbull won the two-year-old colts and geldings final aboard Conviction.

This season she’s crossing her fingers she can go all the way in the series again and in driving Iam The Captain (Captaintreacherous), Pas De Cheval (A Rocknroll Dance) and Allstarzzz Frankie (Four Starzzz Shark) to heat wins she’s given herself a chance.

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