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Speaker 1: Matt Markham's back.

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Speaker 2: Hello, good morning, looke, how are.

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Speaker 1: We Trotting Cup day? All lies on Addington. Although here's

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Speaker 1: the first quirky we fact, the big race, which is

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Speaker 1: the Trotting Cup. At aroundabouts ten to six, it's not

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Speaker 1: actually for trotter's right, No, it's not for paces. So

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Speaker 1: what does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Well, so what are we now? Nineteen oh four the

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Speaker 2: first New Zealand Trotting Cup was held. At that point

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Speaker 2: in time, the game was still sort of developing a

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Speaker 2: little bit here in New Zealand, and colloquially it was

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Speaker 2: referred to as trotting, not harness racing. So therefore the

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Speaker 2: name trotting Cup has stuck through the decades and continues

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Speaker 2: to be so, so it can be a little bit misleading.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so trotters and paces. It's the way they move

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Speaker 1: their legs that's different, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Correct, So the pacers have what they call hobbles on

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Speaker 2: their legs and their action is more fluent and back

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Speaker 2: and forward, whereas the trotter can be a little bit

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Speaker 2: different in their gates. So they're two completely different gates.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so the dominion handicap or the dominion as

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Speaker 2: it's known is for the trotters and the New Zealand

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Speaker 2: Trotting copp is for the pacers.

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Speaker 1: So why don't we start with that's Dominion then, which

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Speaker 1: is raised ten. That's around twenty two five pm. And

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Speaker 1: the one local is horse number one, Marwe, which featured

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Speaker 1: in the Guardian. It's the McCormack's horse. Would you be

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Speaker 1: putting this a slide? Bet on this?

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Speaker 2: Here's a sneaky weat chance mar We. He's a wonderful,

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Speaker 2: wonderful story because in an age where the industry is

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Speaker 2: dominated by the angle yelling sales and people with big

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Speaker 2: wallets going out and buying the best bred horses, Mary

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Speaker 2: bucks the trend a little bit. And the fact that

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Speaker 2: he's a homebread to the mccormicks, And there's steeped in

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Speaker 2: harness racing history, Lawrence who does the driving and David

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Speaker 2: who does the training for their father and grandfather, the

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Speaker 2: late Doug McCormick, was agent in harness racing here in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, particularly with the trotters, so it's very cool

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Speaker 2: to see him in the greatest trodden race of them all.

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Speaker 2: What I would say around Mawi there's a little special

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Speaker 2: market open on tab dot co dot Nz. That's worth

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Speaker 2: having a week look at. It's called the Ruffies Race

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Speaker 2: and he's basically got to beat two horses home and

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Speaker 2: you can have three dollars and I think that's a

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Speaker 2: great bet. So if you look it up on TV

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Speaker 2: doc coded Zig you'll find the Ruffies Racing. You can

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Speaker 2: find Mawi there. He's a three dollars chant to win that.

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Speaker 2: As I say, he's only got to beat two horses home,

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Speaker 2: so it looks pretty good for him. He's a really

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Speaker 2: good top four, top six charts. I think because he's

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Speaker 2: such a good stand start horse, he'll get himself on

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Speaker 2: the speed and be close.

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Speaker 1: Throughout right on. What about our other local link American

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Speaker 1: me in the main affair.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the horse they refer to as Yank. Unsurprisingly his

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Speaker 2: name wonderful, wonderful achievement for Brentonson White to have him

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Speaker 2: in his third consecutive New Zealand Trodden Cup. He did

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Speaker 2: run fourth in the race two years go, so he

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Speaker 2: is capable. The only question I would say is that

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Speaker 2: in the last probably six months, his formed probably hasn't

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Speaker 2: been quite as good as what it was a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago. But one thing in his favor Luke

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Speaker 2: is the fact that the trotting cuts run over three

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Speaker 2: two hundred meters, which is the ultimate distance in harness racing,

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Speaker 2: and American me thrives on it. He is as tough

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Speaker 2: as old boots and he'll just keep tracking all day.

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Speaker 2: So he's an outside chance, but a wonderful achievement for brief.

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Speaker 2: Tim and the owners have the horse in the race,

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Speaker 2: and he's got one big thing in his favor, and

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Speaker 2: I know you spoke to him this morning. The man

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Speaker 2: sitting behind him who wears a gold set by the

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Speaker 2: name of Richard Terrance. Richard Terrence May knows how to

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Speaker 2: win this race. He's won at seven times. He is

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Speaker 2: the greatest Manzealant Cup driver of all time. So it's

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Speaker 2: a nice we boost at his chances.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely anything else that you see of value.

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Speaker 2: I think the locals can start off the day really

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Speaker 2: really well. John Morrison's got a horse in race number

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Speaker 2: one called Royal Rock. He trains it himself. Some punters

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Speaker 2: will remember John winning the first on Day a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago at forty six to one on a

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Speaker 2: course called Franco Joe Sawyer who's trained in mckenbury. Next

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Speaker 2: he goes around today. Royal Rock's four dollars eighty, so

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Speaker 2: he's not quite forty six dollars. But I think he'll

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Speaker 2: be winning the first His form has been excellent and

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Speaker 2: rates one number four. I'll make him the bet of

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Speaker 2: the day. I think you can start on chap Day

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Speaker 2: in the right foot