Wyndham trained harness racing four year old Da Vinci (Art Major) is in the form of his life and his win in the $40,000 Group Three Macca Lodge Northern Southland Cup yesterday was his fourth in a row. Trainer driver Craig Ferguson tucked in behind the Sam Ottley driven Got You Covered who took up
Sand Wave’s (Somebeachsomewhere) win in today’s Mataura Licensing Trust Gore Pacing Cup capped off a premiership winning year for Branxholme harness racing trainer and driver Nathan Williamson and highlighted his skill at getting horses ready to win fresh. The four year old stallion hadn’t raced since April and Williamson had readied him for today’s race
Pembrook Playboy would never be sold because of the special link the horse had with his family, Alcock said. After Colleen told him to buy a horse he worked out who Southland’s leading trainer was and went to visit him unannounced. The trainer was Nathan Williamson and he had not met Alcock previously.
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Nathan Williamson drives Pembrook Playboy to victory in the Invercargill Cup in January. The Christchurch yearling sales were a month away and the two men, with input from Christchurch trainer Colin de Filippi, picked Pembrook Playboy as the horse to buy. “I was surprised how cheap he was – $28,000,” Alcock said.