Harrison Ross Photo by Club Menangle
GOULBURN reinsman Harry Ross is making a habit of driving multiple winners at harness meetings.
For the third time in his short career, the former Tasmanian guided home a quartet of winners at Young on Tuesday evening and is on track to making this season his best yet in the sulky.
Three of those winners were prepared by Young trainers in Nick Hargraves and Stacey Hardy with Backwards First (Race 1) and Miss Tiger (Race 8) saluting for Hargraves and Playing For Keeps (Race 6) trained by Hardy.
Ross’s other victory came in the three-year-old event when the Mark Hewitt-trained Jessie Lee led throughout in a solid performance.
Hewitt has been on the sideline following a nasty fall and shoulder injury sustained at Parkes a month ago when he fractured his scapular bone.
Although recovering well, Hewitt has not returned to race driving and Ross has developed a good rapport with Jessie Lee as she had also finished second for him at their previous outing.
“It was just one of those nights when you have a good book of drives and then get all the luck,” said Ross.
“I have had a lot of success over the years for Nick and Stacey, and also for Mark.
“They are all very good trainers and have their horses fit and ready to go when I jump in the bike.
“It makes my job a lot easier when I drive for them, that’s for sure.”
It is a busy Friday for harness racing in New South Wales with Wagga hosting a solid program this afternoon, and the Newcastle and Dubbo clubs both racing tonight.
Ross will be hoping his purple patch of form can continue at Wagga, where he has five drives.
He will partner in-form mare Yukon Be Serious in Race 8 for another Young-based trainer in David Micallef.
The Kiwi bred five-year-old has won three on the bounce, including two at Wagga’s Riverina Paceway, followed up by an impressive all-the-way victory at Parkes last Friday night in a heat of the Club Menangle Waratah series.
Yukon Be Serious will benefit from Ross’s valuable three-point concession claim and over the 1730-metre sprint trip gets her chance from gate four to go on her winning way.
The Dubbo program features a heat of the Western District Championship.
