On the back of good harness racing workout form and with a moderate opposition, Bettor Enforce delivered at Gore yesterday for Winton trainer/driver Allan Beck.
“She had trialled well at the workouts and to be fair it wasn’t an overly strong field. It was a good start for her,” he said, summarising the win.
In a typical Beck drive, the four year old stepped well and lead all the way to win comfortably by two and three quarter lengths.
After a promising beginning last season to her career her form tapered off and Beck puts that down to her inability to handle the smaller Southland tracks, but she was racing quality horses like Nek Time, American Tart, Mackenzie and Stanley Ross Robyn.
“Last season she raced good on the bigger tracks but then started to pace rough on the smaller tracks but she went good on Sunday.”
Owned by the This Time Syndicate, which includes R L McNaught, L R Drake and J J Kane the trio are long time clients of Beck and raced Admiral Halsey gelding Black Print which won five of his twelve starts in the late 1980’s and his full brother Tact Halsey which won thirteen races in the mid 1990’s – including eight for the Beck stable.
"We’ll look at going to the Riverton Cup in a fortnight and if she goes good we’ll look at the South of the Waitaki race at Addington.”
The win was Alan Beck's 791st and he's very likely to reach the 800 milestone before the season's end. His first winner was Josephine Bret at Gore in February 1984.
Allan Beck Photo Bruce Stewart
Bettor Enforce was bred by Ben and Karen Calder and is closely related to millionaire pacer and dual New Zealand Cup winner Just An Excuse.
Bruce Stewart
Southland Harness Racing