As if Kieran Read's day couldn't get any better.
Read, a certainty to be named in the All Blacks squad for the World Cup at 6.30pm tonight, was also a big-time horse racing winner today.
Read and fellow Canterbury All Black and World Cup winner Andy Ellis share in the ownership of three-year-old trotter Speeding Spur. The pair share in the ownership with former Commonwealth Gold Medalist, Dick Tayler.
Already good enough to be voted the three-year-old trotter of the year in New Zealand, the horse overcame a second line draw to win a A$56,000 Breeders Crown Trot at Melton in Victoria.
Trained in South Auckland, Speeding Spur has already won three trotting Derbys this year and has the potential to develop into a million-dollar earner as he could race at the highest level for another five seasons.
