The Sunday News
Mandla Moyo, Sports Reporter
TOP class long distance runner Three to Tango produced a master class performance at Borrowdale Racecourse on Sunday on his way to victory during the Zimbabwe Derby Grade (3) Race, the third as well as final leg of the Tripple Crown.
For his scintillating display, this runner delivered $4 800 in prize money to the stable leaving the other runners to receive $1 600, $1 000 and $600 according to their order of merit.
The winner along with his running mate jockey Raymond Danielson have played second fiddle to their counterparts during the running of the two previous legs this time around left the bookmakers with an egg on their face after throwing the ratings book through the window on their way to victory.
This runner from the yard of Kirk Swanson, a trainer with a good hand when it comes to conditioning runners for long distance races this connection was ruthless in the process arriving home in a record time of 2 minutes 36.13 seconds.
His lead of two horse lengths recorded is a clear indication that long distance races are his ideal menu especially putting into consideration that during the first leg he came out the third best runner.
When loaded for the second test he went a gear up finishing third, interestingly when another 400m was added to take the distance tom 2 400m from the previous distances of 1 600m and 2000m respectively this connection finally came to the party.
In second position was Sygone the bookmaker’s favourite and his running mate Colleen Story who saw their dream of engraving them names in the history book fade after winning the two legs with just one more to go.
Mia Finola also found his way up the ladder when finishing strongly in position four trailing the leader by three horse lengths.
The last placed runner to arrive home was Rain Spider while Action Jackson and Crown Brewed took the last two places respectively.
As it stands the Tripple Crown Remains out of reach for one horse after the two winners emerged at the end of this ultimate test for the thoroughbred runner.
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