Punters Info<\/a><\/p>\nBy Mike Love\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bruce Negus believes Foliejon Star ($4.80FF) may set the tone for his day at Methven today.<\/p>\n
The Burnham-based trainer rates him his best chance of the meeting, in Race 1, the Odd Job Johnny Mobile Pace over 2300m (12.00pm).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a very, very good horse and I expect him to be hard to beat,\u201d said Negus of the four-year-old Sky Major gelding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Foliejon Star ($4.80FF) will be driven by Sheree Tomlinson, and although he was a little bit disappointing at Banks Peninsula a week ago, Negus has not lost any sleep over it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI may have been a little easy on him after the Coast so he might have been a little bit underdone for Banks Peninsula last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I was a betting man I\u2019d have a go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Negus is not so upbeat in Race 3, the ACL Contracting Mobile Pace over 2300m (12.52pm) with The Seamstress ($41.00FF), again for Tomlinson.<\/p>\n
The four-year-old Sky Major mare passed a few home last week which was encouraging enough for Negus to line her up again.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe went better than we thought she\u2019d go last week, we were expecting to sack her. But she has another chance tomorrow.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Race 5, the Betavet Buildagut Trot over 2400m (2.03pm), Joany Baby ($6.00FF) has been under the eye of Negus on behalf of Waikouaiti trainer Denis O\u2019Connell. The promising four-year-old Speeding Spur mare has been trotting in great form lately, and looks to be building to her third win.<\/p>\n
After a couple of placings on the Coast she returned to Banks Peninsula last week to produce a fair run after being checked and changed ground a couple of times in the run to the judge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not sure if she was unlucky, slightly tired or underperformed at Motukarara last week. But whatever it was, she seems very well and I expect a good run. She\u2019ll be a good horse one day,\u201d said Negus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tomlinson will take the drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Race 7, the G & R Seeds (Junior Drivers) Pace over 2400m (3.12pm) Carlin ($13.00FF), to be driven by Mia Holbrough, is better than the formline reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s led and won at Methven before. If he were to reproduce that form he\u2019d be hard to beat. He seems bright and is working well, so I expect a good honest race from him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Race 11, the Rakaia Railway Hotel Handicap Trot over 2400m (5.20pm), sees Buffy Northstains ($11.00FF) for Holbrough looking to continue her good honest form.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was a wee bit unlucky last start. She\u2019s bouncing around the place and should go another honest race.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
While in the same event Aveross Majesty ($6.00FF), the second of Denis O\u2019Connell\u2019s runners under the care of Negus, has also been racing well and will again be driven by Tomlinson.<\/p>\n
\u201cUncharacteristic error last week from him. We\u2019ve been happy with him during the week. If he does everything right he has to be a live chance,\u201d said Negus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both runners will start from a 15m handicap.<\/p>\n
(All Fixed Field (FF) odds were accurate at the time though they can fluctuate – check tab.co.nz for latest prices)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"22 March 2026 , Punters Info By Mike Love\u00a0 Bruce Negus believes Foliejon Star ($4.80FF) may set the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-342384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342384","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=342384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342384\/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=342384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}