Bet N Win to go for all-the-way win

If Bet N Win is to have any chance of winning our richest trot next Friday he probably has to win a far easier one tonight. And win it by leading throughout.

The Canterbury trotter will start a hot harness racing favourite against just four opponents in tonight’s $60,000 Trotter’s Mile at Cambridge, the lead-up to the TAB Trot worth 10 times as much back there next Friday.

Driver Bob Butt realises what is coming next week with four high-class Australians flying in to join Queensland talent Not As Promised who is among his rivals tonight, so Butt wants to make a statement.

“Those Aussie trotters are really good at the moment,” says Butt.

“They are going to be tough to beat next week so we want to earn some respect and see just how fast he can begin this week because he could really need that gate speed next week.”

Bet N Win was quick off the gate and brave at the end to win the NZ Trotting Champs last start and with Butt suggesting he will try to lead throughout tonight he should have tactical superiority in a race that could lack attackers, with Kyvalley Hotspur the interesting value option.

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by Michael Guerin, for Harness Racing New Zealand