United States Hall of Fame harness driver David Miller is in for a busy working holiday.
After driving at Alexandra Park last Friday night, the American harness driver has secured seven drives at Addington on Friday night in which he will compete in his own set of racing colours.
He’ll then venture on to new ground, quite literally, when he competes on the grass track surface at Motukarara in five races on Sunday.
Not only will he face a grass surface, but he’ll have the unique opportunity to compete in a standing start event, a format not used in the USA and Canada.
Two of Miller’s drives on Sunday will be in standing starts over 2810m, including a drive on Boomer Bailey in the Motukarara Pacers Cup. Which will also be a new aspect given he predominantly races over one mile events in his homeland.
Miller started driving at age seventeen in his home state of Ohio, before forging his way into the big time race circuits.
He’s had remarkable success during his career, including three Little Brown Jugs, and became the tenth driver in North American history to reach 10,000 career wins.
But the horse he will probably be most connected with in international harness folklore is when he combined with the world’s fastest pacer – Always B Miki.
The duo scorched their way into the history books on the Red Mile surface in Kentucky in 2016, when Always B Miki paced 1.46 flat marking the fastest ever mile paced by a Standardbred.
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