The man set to break every driving record in New Zealand harness racing history realises he will have to wait at least another year for the most lucrative one.
Dexter Dunn's record-breaking season is over early after he jetted off on Tuesday for a brief US holiday before defending his World Drivers title in Canada early next month.
Dunn, who will take in the historic Hambletonian Day at the Meadowlands early next month, finishes this season with 228 wins, eight clear of the previous New Zealand record by a horseperson of either code which Dunn set in 2011.
Already the youngest ever member of the 2000-win club by well over a decade and with a remarkable 10 straight national premierships, Dunn could be our most successful horseperson of all time in just 10 years, that title currently held by Tony Herlihy with 3423 domestic wins.
But Dunn's massive haul of $2,252,217 in the last 12 months wasn't enough to make him our highest earning driver in a single season, that honour being held by David Butcher whose drives won $2,328,344 in the 2008-09 season.