Punters Info<\/a><\/p>\nBy Michael Guerin<\/p>\n
John Dunn has already had the highlight of his working week but wouldn\u2019t mind another one at Addington tonight.<\/p>\n
And he thinks Midnight Diamond can provide that even off a 20m handicap in the $30,000 Aotea Electric Silk Road Final for the trotting mares (7.49pm).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The mare was dynamic winning her first start for Team Dunn last Friday but even if she wins by five lengths tonight she won\u2019t be the most fun Dunn has had in the sulky this week.<\/p>\n
Because the family stable star and arguably New Zealand\u2019s most exciting horse Got The Chocolates is back in work and has his second hoppled run for this campaign down the beach on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe feels great,\u201d enthuses Dunn.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that trip to Auckland really made him and while it is only early in this campaign we couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo all going well he will be ready to be back on track at the end of August.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s fare at Addington won\u2019t be quite so tasty but Midnight Diamond is an exciting trotter who has transferred to the Dunns to take advantage of the straight beach training.<\/p>\n
She started her career in great form with Ross Houghton and Dunn says he thinks the ready-made mare they inherited has plenty more in store.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has real speed, especially for this grade,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t usually like horses off 20 handicaps in these type of races but she is better off driven to use that speed so it might actually suit her coming from midfield.\u201d<\/p>\n
The stable\u2019s set-up has obvious links to one of the prime dangers in Four Wise Woman, who was also a Silk Road heat winner and is trained by Dunn\u2019s in-laws Craig and Aimee Edmonds.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is going really well too but I\u2019d say Midnight Diamond was just the better chance,\u201d is Dunn\u2019s best estimate for punters tonight.<\/p>\n
While the runaway premiership leaders don\u2019t have as big a team in tonight as they have had at some recent Addington meetings Dunn does suggest punters follow Wishing For U against stablemate Normie Stead in the last race.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a nice horse in this grade and will be hard to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the other features tonight sees the return of Bettors Anvil against stablemate Tact Teva, Trump Card and Amaretto Franco in a race (8.25pm) that should carry its form line relevance into the warmer months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 July 2026 , Punters Info By Michael Guerin John Dunn has already had the highlight of his…\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":["post-508322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508322","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=508322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508322\/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=508322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}