By Jonny Turner
One Apollo bowed out of New Zealand harness racing on the best possible note with his powerful winning performance on Invercargill Cup Day.
The horse trainer Brent White admitted was one of his favourites ran his rivals off their feet, clearing out to score by almost three lengths.
A move to Australia now awaits the six-year-old where he will reunite with his former stablemate Jazzy Star.
“With the owners, we have made the decision to send him to Australia.,” White said.
“He’s going to Trevor Munday’s in Sydney – Trevor is a good mate of mine.”
“He has done a good job here, he’s won close to $200,000 and that is a good way for him to go out.”
One Apollo broke the Ascot Park track record for 2700m with a strong front-running performance to win the Group Three Southern Lights Trot at last year’s Northern Southland Cup meeting.
In an almost identical effort to that win, One Apollo charged along in the lead for driver Matthew Williamson to score in a similar time.
“His work had been good before he came down for the race and Matty did a good job, rolling along and taking the speed out of the others.”