The final heat for the two year old fillies in harness racing's Young Gun Series was held tonight at Alexandra Park and it was no surprise when the two fillies from the All Star barn fought out a close finish with the resulted evenly shared.
Dream About Me and Arden's Choice ran the quinella in the $25,000 Sires Stakes heat at Timaru when they were both on debut and they did it again tonight with Dream About Me again grabbing the win although the margin over Arden's Choice was only a nose this time.
The race turned into a bit of a melee early when both the well supported Nek Time and Goodlookingbabe galloped when disputing the lead after 300 metres which resulted in quite a few of the runners being checked.
When the dust settled Gamma Lady and Josh Dickie were left in front with Dream About Me with Tim Williams in the bike parked on her wheel.
Natalie Rasmussen set Arden's Choice alight at the 900 metres mark and she quickly made it to the death seat giving Dream About Me a lovely sit in the one by one.
Those three went clear at the 400 metres and as they turned for home Ardens Choice worked to the front but was immediately challenged by Dream About Me who had cut the corner and snuck up the passing lane to save ground.
There was nothing between them all the way up the straight but at the line Dream About Me was a nose to the good of Arden's Choice with a further 2 3/4 lengths back to Gamma Lady in third.
The 1700 metres was cut out in 2:05, a mile rate of 1:58.3 with closing sectionals of 57.4 and 27.6
The runs of the first two were both full of merit and which ever one draws better in the $80,000 Final of the Young Guns next week probably deserves favouritism.
Dream About Me did get her head around several times during the running and will benefit next week after her first run right handed.
Dream About Me is an out and out "blue blood' being a Bettor's Delight half sister to the champion Christen Me.
Her dam of course is a half sister to Adore Me so it just doesn't get any better than that.
Driver Tim Williams was happy enough with the run of Dream About Me.
" She is still very green and has a lot to learn."
" It was her first run right handed and she should benefit immensely from the experience."
" Taking the passing lane helped her round the last bend and I was just lucky it worked out," Tim said.
The All Stars pair look a class above the fillies to have raced in the series to date and appear the logical quinella in next weeks final.
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