Highly-promising New Zealand bred harness racing two-year-old Sprinter is poised to warm up for the $125,000 Golden Slipper Stakes on Friday week by winning the $17,500 TABtouch Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
He will reappear after a two-month absence when he starts from barrier one and Nathan Turvey will be looking for an all-the-way win
Turvey drove the Mach Three gelding when he dashed over the final 400m section in 27.8sec. and won a 2185m trial from Not Small at Pinjarra on Sunday morning.
Sprinter is owned and trained by Gary Elson, who was pleased with the first-up effort of Ideal Tyson, who looks certain to be a warm favourite for the Golden Slipper after his easy first-up win over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Monday afternoon to improve his record to eight wins from nine starts.
Sprinter should win from the Phil Costello-trained Anime and trainer Glenn Elliott's pair of Soho Wall Street and Soho Wolverine.
Anime trailed the pacemaking Ideal Tyson when a sound second to Ideal Tyson on Monday, while Soho Wall Street was a winner over Rocknroll Whitby at Narrogin two starts ago and Soho Wolverine finished second to Rich Yankee in the Pearl Classic at Bunbury two starts ago.
Ken Casellas