Steve Telfer realises he may not win tomorrow night’s $200,000 Harness Million with Alta Meteor but there is nothing surer than Telfer is going to win his share of battles this weekend.
The South Auckland trainer, winner of last season’s premiership and head of the now Telfer/Cullen stable, has a hand in many of the major fights of the huge harness racing weekend, starting at Cambridge tomorrow night.
Not only does he have Alta Meteor as a serious winning chance in the Three-Year-Old male sales race but hours later B D Joe and Alta Wiseguy in the Newcastle Mile in NSW, the winner qualifying for the A$1 million Miracle Mile on March 4.
Telfer then has Kahlua Flybye as favourite in her heat of the NSW Oaks at Menangle tomorrow night while on Sunday he and Stonewall Stud boss Steve Stockman will starts their yearling sales week attack at Karaka, with the operation certain to have a mammoth impact over the four days of sales which move to Canterbury on Monday.
“It is a busy time but an exciting one,” says Telfer. “I couldn’t be happier with the horses, both here and in Australia and the sales are something we look forward to every year and I’m confident we will be bringing some good stock home.”