Brookies Player the best of Wilson’s runners

Southern harness racing trainers Ross and Chris Wilson will take a team of three pacers to the races at Winton today (Aug. 25), and of the three, Ross Wilson rates Brookies Player (Shadow Play) the best of them in race nine.

“Ability wise he is the best of my three,” Wilson told Bruce Stewart from Southern Harness earlier this week.

“His manners let him down a wee bit sometimes but he is a bit more tractable this time in and he is coming up quite nicely,” he said.

Brookies Player has had a win and five placings from his eight race-day starts and today starts off the second line in the 2400m mobile event.

In the same race as Brookies Player, Wilson will line up the three year old filly Haley Robyn (Sportswriter), who has a tricky draw of seven on the front line.

“She had a nice quiet run at the workouts and needed the run, but it will be a bit tough for her out there I think,” Wilson said.

Five year old Shadow Play gelding Robyns Shadow goes around in race seven as a winner of four of his 48 race day starts, and is coming in fresh after not racing for nearly six months.

“We had to give him a good break because he had a bad quarter crack and we had to grow that out, but he is nice and sound now,” Wilson said.

“He has come up pretty good actually.”

“”I have been quite impressed with his work, but he has had a big break so he will probably need a run or two, because he is a big horse,” Wilson said.

Robyns Shadow has the advantage of the barrier one draw but comes up against a good field, including the well bred Jovial Jay (Sweet Lou – New Years Jay) who is raced by Otago thoroughbred trainer Brian Anderton.

A lot of interest at today’s meeting will come in Race Six, where debut runner Raupunga Lad (Raging Bull) will line up as one of the shortest priced first starters seen this year.

Rated a $1.30 win price on the fixed odds market, Raupunga Lad who is trained by southern trainer Brent McIntyre, has been burning up the Southern trial tracks in recent months.

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by Harnesslink Media