'And on the eve of the Yearling Sales'
The curtain came down for harness racing at Melbourne 's Moonee Valley Race Course on Saturday night and fittingly the scene of so many wonderful New Zealand triumphs over the decades turned into almost a Kiwifest.
Half the ten race card was won by New Zealand bred horses but significantly those wins included the three prestigious Group One events.
Sundon's Gift NZ in an all Kiwi trifecta took out his second Interdominion Trotters' Grand Final. Bondy NZ won Australia 's premier staying event the $400,000 Hunter Cup and in another Kiwi trifecta Courage To Rule NZ won the Victorian Derby for three-year-olds.
Cincinnati Kid NZ won the nights Free-For-All event and last years sale topping colt from the Auckland Yearling Sale Cullen Bromac won the two-year-old race.
On the eve of the Standardbred Yearling Sales in Auckland and Christchurch there is another incredible twist in this story. All three Group One winners were purchased from the NZ Yearling Sales