Brittany Graham takes $7m US winner Foiled Again out for track work
How many Aussie teenage girls can say that they have driven the highest ever money earner in harness racing history? Just one I'd suspect.
Brittany Graham got the thrill of a lifetime when she was given the reins to jog equine superstar Foiled Again today.
She took the winner of $7 million and counting out for his daily track work and couldn't believe who she was sitting behind. Graham said if you didn't know it, you wouldn't think Foiled Again was so special. "He might be the fastest pacer I've ever driven but he is also the slowest jogger on the track," Graham said.
Last month, Ron Burke trainee Foiled Again, an 11 year-old pacer became the first three time champion of the Northfield Park (CA) Battle of Lake Eirie and took his lifetime stakes to more than $7 million. The old man of harness racing is definitely one of a kind and in recent years has rewritten US trotting history books with multiple million dollar seasons, around 60 x $100,000+ race wins and a unique ability to win on all tracks regardless of the shape or size.
19 year-old Graham and travelling mate Trent Moffat are the recipients of Queensland harness racing's Mercedes Benz Centenary Classic (Toowong) Young Achiever Award and are currently experiencing their prize of and educational trip to North America where they are being mentored by US champion expat Aussie trainer Ross Croghan.
The pair have been working horses at Gateway Farms in New Jersey during their stay and are soon to hit the racetrack. Moffat will make his US driving debut tomorrow at Yonkers Paceway driving in the first race on the card against a line up of super star US drivers.
