A race designed to showcase the lesser lights of harness racing may help further illuminate one of its new stars at Addington tomorrow night.
The $40,000 Harness 7000 is a great concept, the race restricted to the stock of stallions who stood at $7000 or less at conception, meaning it isn't open to those by all-time stallion great Bettors Delight or others close to him in the market.
The stock of Always B Miki wouldn't make the cut at his current service fee either but they do for the crop that includes Aardie's Express, which is how the exciting filly makes it into the 1980m mobile, albeit from the widest draw.
She thrashed glamour filly True Fantasy last Friday in the style of a potential star and co-trainer Steve Telfer says the race could hardly suit better.
"It is a great race for a filly as good as her under the unique conditions and she is tough enough to keep going forward and make the most of it," says Telfer.