Exciting Aways B Miki 3YO on target for Hannon Memorial

Exciting pacer Franco Indie (Always B Miki) has returned from a spell, is back in work and is looking a picture at the Mark Purdon and Hayden Cullen harness racing stables in Rolleston.

Regular driver Natalie Rasmussen has been doing a lot of work with the speedy gelding and thinks he has strengthened from his last campaign.

“He feels a lot stronger this time in, he is not as weak and gawky,” Rasmussen said this week.

Franco Indie will head to the trials and has a number of targets this season, including the (Gr1) $250,000 New Zealand Derby in December this year.

The speedy 3-Y-O will possibly have a number of starts before the New Zealand Cup meeting in November according to Rasmussen.

“He is on target to trial again at the end of August and beginning of September,” Rasmussen said.

“We will probably look at his first race start being The Hannon Memorial on the 18th September before stepping back to his own age group racing at Addington.”

“At this stage I could not be happier with him,” Rasmussen said.

Franco Indie’s racing record to date is impressive, earning $159,374 in stakes and being victorious in six of his 12 race day starts, including the Group One Woodlands Stud Sires Stakes Final at Addington, where he sat parked in the race, before winning in a 1-53.9 mile rate.

FRANCO INDIE SIRES STAKES REPLAY

Arguably one of his best runs was running the New Zealand Cup winner Self Assured (Bettor’s Delight) to a ½neck at Alexandra Park in a 1-53.5 mile rate despite running greenly in the straight.

FRANCO INDIE CLOSE SECOND TO SELF ASSURED REPLAY

by Harnesslink Media