New Zealand travel route confirmed for champion Pacer

Champion Aussie Pacer jumps to Roem (Bettor’s pleasure) will this trip in the IRT NZ Trotting Cup Sight Unigen.

After much deliberation, trainer-director Grant Dixon has locked up travel plans, which means that the six-year-old will arrive in Christchurch only five days before the position of $ 1 million on Addington on Tuesday 11 November.

“He will be on a flight on Wednesday (November 5) from Melbourne, which I was told to take him to Christchurch on Thursday morning,” he said.

It ends speculation about a possible start-up race or at least an appearance in the traditional Cup Day test the week before the cup.

In the best case, jump to Roem could pop up in Addington for training on the Saturday before the cup.

The later flight to NZ is a victory for Victorian fans, who will now see the fame in Melton three times in the coming month.

It starts with a surprise, rather than expected appearance in the Smoken Up Sprint on Saturday evening, where he will clash for the first time with Tab Eureka winner Bay of Biscay.

It means that jump to roem will have its third start in so many weeks when he tackles the $ 250,000 group 1 Victoria Cup on Saturday week.

As sharp as a jump to Roem, winning first in Albion Park last Saturday night, Dixon said that this week another race would help alone.

“He was booked on a flight (from Brisbane) to Melbourne in the middle of the night Thursday (night), so there will be early on Friday morning,” he said.

“He won well and did it easily last Saturday (in Albion Park), but another run will just be sharpened again.

“It’s about how well he thrives racing. Going in the biggest races, he seems to be crazy every week, so we’ll do that again.”

Perhaps Dixon is also a mindful jump to the only defeat of Fame in a Victoria Cup came back in 2023 once he had raced only once every seven weeks.

In addition to the Victoria Cup, Dixon has two other Melton race options for jump to fame for the flight to NZ.

“Since it is more than three weeks between the Victoria Cup and NZ (Cup), I will give him another race in Melton to keep it about to him, especially with NZ more than two miles (3200m).”

Those options are a 2240m free-for-all in Melton on October 25 or a 1720m free-for-all on November 1.

The timing of the 1720m race seems better, since racing on October 25 would again mean that four points are in the same number of weeks before the jump.

Through Adam HamiltonFor Harness Racing Victoria