One of the roller-coaster years in New Zealand harness racing history should end on a high at Alexandra Park tomorrow night.
It is fitting Copy That is a hot favourite for the last race of any code in New Zealand in 2022 because the journey he and trainer Ray Green have been on has been one of the most undulating.
Controversially Copy That will meet only three rivals in the $50,000 Franklin Cup but any dramas over whether the race should have been held pale compared with the rest of their year.
Copy That started 2022 confined to a box in Victoria after fracturing a leg kicking a fence, and Green was with him all the way as he was trapped in Australia because of a snap Covid-enforced closure of the border.
The pair eventually returned home, Copy That worked his way back to full health and fitness and even winning form, then headed back to Victoria where he suffered a minor bleed during a Victoria Cup campaign.