Day of records at Nelson
Floyd, one of four track record breakers on the first day of the Nelson Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday, is being reserved for a C5-C7 pace at Addington next Friday. The half-brother to an earlier useful winner in Faberge, Floyd moved up from the fourth line with cover 700 m out and finished best to record 4:2.4s for the 3100 m, well inside the previous best of 4:4, set by Mavora Boy last year. Floyd was recording his fifth win from 61 career starts on Saturday. The Nordel Skipper gelding has been placed on 33 occasions, for his Greenpark part-owner and trainer, Paul Hadfield, who races the five-year-old, with Kevin Chapman. Suvarno, a four-year-old Locarno mare from the former smart trotter, Carmen Suva, in David Butt’s team, started the day of records rolling with a 3:3.2s winning run for 2400 m mobile in the opening event. Suvarno, which led throughout, was comfortably inside Short Cut’s previous best of 3:3.65. Anzus, a talented Transport Chip gelding in Robin Butt’s West Melton team, finished best from the trail to win in 3:3.4s (2400 m mobile), a record for a three-year-old, bettering Le Marais’s 3:3.85.
The Westport trotter, Karina Lee, overcame a 40m handicap to win the Customhouse Hotel Trot in 4:9 for the 3100 m, lowering Some Event’s 4:9.3s set at last year’s meeting.
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