Dreams Are Free resumes

As the harness racing season begins to ramp up Southlanders will get to see one of the province’s stars at the Wyndham meeting tomorrow, when Nathan Williamson trained Dreams Are Free (Captaintreacherous) makes his much anticipated return in the Sgt Dan Stockfoods Mobile Pace.

“I’m happy with where he’s at as far as he is physically. We’re just having a couple of wee steering issues with him. We’ve been playing around with his shoeing to get him plumbed up right,” Williamson said.

Williamson has taken the three year old colt to two workouts, winning both.

“The ability is still all there, we just have to try and get him running straight.”

Dreams Are Free received notoriety when he stunned viewers as a two year old, coming from a long last to win at Winton in November. After not schooling up behind the mobile the colt was out of the picture for a long period of the race before he stormed home to win by half a neck.

As an early three year old he raced in the best company beating Cold Chisel, Major Hot and Chase A Dream in a heat of the Garrards Sires’ Stakes Series in Auckland.

From eleven starts he’s won four and has been placed a further six times for owners Brendan Fahy and The Dreams Are Free Syndicate.

Assuming he makes it safely through his first assignment tomorrow, Dreams Are Free will head to Ashburton at the end of the month to contest the $50,000 Garrards Sires’ Stakes Sophomore.

Fahy, Williamson and the Syndicate have also purchased a slot in the $500,000 The Velocity slot race on Show Day at Addington so that’s also on Dreams Are Free’s radar.

by Bruce Stewart, for Harnesslink