The Alexandra Park carnival for next month may be a watered-down version of recent years but that won’t stop the north’s best trotter from turning up.
In fact, champion horseman Tony Herlihy says it may be exactly what Bolt For Brilliance needs.
The two-time Jewels winner is back in work at Herlihy’s stable after a brave yet well-beaten third in Sundees Son’s record-smashing Dominion at Addington two weeks ago but without his usual December targets to aim at.
With the harness racing calendar being restructured, Alexandra Park features like the Group 1 National Trot have been moved, leaving next month with a $30,000, $25,000 and $17,500 trot for the open class horses. But Herlihy says Bolt For Brilliance will be there.
“He is back in work now and I think a couple of races like that away from the really hard open class racing he has had will do him some good,” says Herlihy.
“The races he has been in have been so tough that to get back into a comfort zone up here and maybe win a race or two will be good for his confidence, and if he races well over the carnival we can look at Australia.”
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