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Racing: Big Twist in driver for favourite at Alex Park
3 Mar, 2021 10:20 AM
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Zac Butcher has the drive on Bettor Twist. Photo / Greg Bowker
NZ Herald
By: Michael Guerin
The game of musical sulky seats behind Friday night s Oaks favourite Bettor Twist appears to have ended with Zac Butcher the winner.
The young gun driver was stunned to get the call to drive the $1.70 chance in the $125,000 Northern Oaks for pacing fillies at Alexandra Park after expected driver Mark Purdon was ruled out.
Purdon had picked up the drive only 24 hours earlier when Bettor Twist s regular reinsman Tim Williams decided not to travel from Canterbury to Auckland even after being granted a Government travel exemption. It turned out that was a smart move because even if he had got to Auckland, as Purdon did, he wouldn t have been allowed to drive.