The training star of New Zealand winter racing Allan Sharrock says his days of singing in the rain are all but over — and that includes at Pukekohe on Saturday.
The Taranaki horseman brings Tavattack north for the $120,000 Easter Mile, one of three black-type races at the last major Pukekohe meeting of the season.
Sharrock terrifies bookies and is loved by punters when tracks gets some moisture in them.
But he says Tavattack isn’t that horse and for this season at least, maybe more, Sharrock doesn’t want to be racing’s Mr Rain Dance.
“He would be best on a dead4 to a soft6, not worse,” says Sharrock of Tavattack heading into the mile.