The trainer behind the most hyped horse of Harness Jewels days has labelled her odds ridiculous.
Because while trainer-driver Nathan Williamson thinks he can win the four-year-old Ruby with the appropriately-named Dark Horse, he is adamant she doesn't deserve to be the $2.40 favourite.
Dark Horse is one of the more exciting trotters to come out of Southland in a decade, having won five of her eight starts this term, her three defeats coming when she galloped.
Her last two wins have seen her clock serious 2700m and 2200m mobile times, including a last-start thrashing of NZ Trot Champs winner Eyre I Come at Winton.
Williamson, the son of champion trainer of trotters Phil, knows he has something special in his care. "She is an excitement machine, the best horse I have trained by some way," he told the Herald.