Used To Me gelding equals the track record in Cup win

The Used To Me gelding Don’t Care maintained his devastating harness racing form when he equalled the track record in winning the Group 3 $30,000 Cobram Trotters Cup on Sunday afternoon (Jan 8).

Starting off a 10 metre handicap, the chestnut gelding was spotting the leaders a conservative 40 metres on settling down but quickly tacked on and then looped the field in the middle stages.

The mile rate of 2:00.8 for the 2678 metres standing start equalled the record set by The Boss Man in 2016.

A former Australian 2YO Trotting Colt of the Year, Don’t Care has now won 12 races and almost $170,000 in stakes.

DONT CARE’S CUP! 🏆
A special success for Kate Hargreaves and her great friend Shannon O’Sullivan as they combine with Dont Care to win the Central Murray Credit Union Cobram Trotters Cup! pic.twitter.com/JxGDfc30cQ

— The Trots (@TheTrotsComAu) January 8, 2023

For complete Cobram race results, click here.

Champion sire Love You had a swag of winners on both sides of the Tasman over the holiday period.

His winners included Central Otago, a convincing 1:59 victor on Bendigo Cup night, and Luvaflair (Pinjarra) and, in New Zealand, star four-year-old Wy Fi (Banks Peninsula), Eye Love You (Cambridge Raceway), Pyramid Mystic (Wyndham) and Our Golden Kenny (Central Otago).

Love You’s richest son Quaker Jet sired a brace of winners in Electrojet (Kilmore) and Quick Quaker, a runaway winner at Globe Derby Park.

Inter Dominion-winning sire Orlando Vici was represented by Aristotle, who posted his third success at the Echuca New Year’s Night meeting.

Orlando Vici boasts the amazing siring score of having sired 17 winners from 22 starters at an average of $65,062 per starter.

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink