03 November 2021 | Jason Bonnington
FOR those hooked on harness racing by the seductive heroics of horses like Pure Steel and Popular Alm there’s an understandable passion for the sport to suddenly wind back the clock.
Sadly, for them at least, that simply cannot happen. Time’s, both literally and metaphorically, have changed.
Nothing is what it was, and one example of that fact is how post-modern standardbreds perform fresh from breaks.
Once, great horses could overcome fitness deficits with talent coming back from spells.
Now, particularly at metropolitan level, hard racing is almost always required to compete with, and conquer, quality rivals.
Which is why Honolua Bay’s breathtaking Catanach’s Jewellers 4YO and 5YO Championship triumph on Saturday night was so staggering in nature.
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