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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was a really good starting point” – that was Trackside presenter Brittany Graham’s assessment of her trotter Tetrick’s first trial in this country.<\/p>\n
The Timoko three-year-old, formerly based in Queensland, lined up in a six-horse Pacers mobile trial at Rangiora today (Tuesday).\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He’d never been in a mobile race before and he settled at the tail of the field and followed them around, he was solid and it was a really good starting point.”<\/p>\n
Trained by Cran and Chrissie Dalgety, Tetrick was driven by their son and recently-crowned New Zealand Junior Drivers Championship winner Carter.<\/p>\n
“I’m very thankful to Cran and Chrissie for helping me out with him. They have been so good.”<\/p>\n
“I go out to the Dalgetys three or four mornings a week and give them a hand and I drive him there but with work and all that I was never going to drive him at the trials or on raceday.”<\/p>\n
Graham had more than 300 wins as a driver and 41 as a trainer in Australia before moving countries earlier this year. And it was after settling into her new job as a presenter\/reporter on Trackside that she decided it was time for Tetrick to head over the Tasman too.<\/p>\n
“I was missing the horses dreadfully so bit the bullet and brought him over,” says Graham, “it’s really filled a gap – it’s been awesome.”<\/p>\n
Tetrick got his name from star American driver Tim Tetrick.<\/p>\n
“He’s by Timoko so I called him Tim anyway and then the fact he is a chestnut and Tim Tetrick is a redhead – it all went from there.”<\/p>\n
Graham bought the horse at the yearling sales two years ago and he’s only had six career starts for one win at Albion Park on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n
“The stock of Timoko and those other European stallions usually get better with age and he seems to be a good young trotter with a bit of upside.”<\/p>\n
He’s likely to head back to the trials before his first New Zealand start.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be guided by the Dalgetys’ – they know a lot more about placing a horse in this country than I do.”<\/p>\n
“But he’s beautifully-gaited so who knows what he is capable of?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk\u00a0 “It was a really good starting point” – that was Trackside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-164131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}