Love You – What a weekend

Champion sire Love You produced Group harness racing winners in two different States and important winners on both islands of New Zealand last weekend.

Leading the vanguard was the outstanding racemare Queen Elilda NZ, who posted her fourth win at Group 1 level when she edged out a gallant Im Ready Jet (by Quaker Jet) in a thrilling $75,000 Sumthingaboutmaori Trotters Free-for-all at Melton on Saturday night (March 25).

It was her 20th success from 37 starts and lifted her stake tally to $411,145.

One night earlier the Love You mare Luvaflair led throughout in a career-best 1:58.6 in the Group 3 $30,000 WA Trotters Sprint at Gloucester Park. She became the 20th ‘down under’’ bred progeny of Love You to earn $100,000 in stakemoney.

Love Gun maintained his devastating form in winning for the third time from five starts this season at Bendigo, while the talented Aroha Koe soundly trounced his opposition by 33 metres at Cranbourne on Sunday night (March 26).

In NZ, Love You sired the impressive Auckland winner Dream Of You, Spells Of Love (Addington) and a ‘new’ winner, Kink (Oamaru).

DREAM OF YOU REPLAY

Love You has three representatives in the Nutrien Equine Melbourne Yearling Sale on April 2 and 3. They are colts from the Vicbred 2YO champion Betty Hall (Lot 540) and the dual Group placegetter Meadow Valley Road (Lot 645) and a filly out of the dual Group 3 victor Cyclone Jeter NZ (Lot 562).

Love You leads a star studded sire roster at Haras Des Trotteurs, near Ballarat (VIC.).

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink