The trainer of Australasia’s most exciting pacer has made a surprising admission about the races he would most dearly love to win with Leap To Fame.
The 4-year-old stallion has been stunning during the Queensland winter carnival, thrashing his older rivals in the A$200,000 Sunshine Sprint at Albion Park on Saturday night and he is red hot to repeat that in this Saturday’s Blacks A Fake.
While trainer-driver Grant Dixon says his main aim for the season is the A$2.1 million Eureka, the new Sydney slot race on September 2, longer-term, the race he would love to win most is in New Zealand.
“It has always been a dream of mine to compete in a New Zealand Cup and obviously to win it would be amazing,” says Dixon.
“If I could win any race with him, it would be the Eureka, because it is worth so much, and that has been his main aim this whole year. But obviously he can’t race in it again next season [it is for 3 and 4-year-olds], so the New Zealand Cup is the next race I’d love to win out of the big ones.”