Brilliant two-year-old filly Pass Line (All Bets Off) stormed into calculations for the $700,000 Breeders Crown Final when she annexed a $25,000 harness racing elimination in 1:53.3 at Hoosier Park, Indiana on Friday (Oct. 20).
Pass Line has now won 10 of her 12 starts for $524,652 in stakes. She holds a mile record of 1:49.6.
She will start from the No. 4 gate in the Final to be raced on Friday night (Oct. 27).
All Bets Off, a triple millionaire and emerging young sire, is available to Australian breeders for the first time from Tourello Standardbreds, Sheffield in northern Tasmania.
Companion sires Lincoln Royal and Lennytheshark were both represented by good Victorian winners this week. Lincoln Royal left the impressive come-from-behind Melton victor Pull The Other Leg NZ (1:53.3), while Lennyshark produced the fast Cobram three-year-old winner Son Of The Shark (1:54).
Slip The Hundy NZ (by Lincoln Royal) won a $12,000 race in 1:52.8 at Freehold Raceway, New Jersey on Saturday (October 21).
By Peter Wharton