Max climbs Inter rankings

A BRAVE second to champion pacer Leap To Fame has seen evergreen star Max Delight climb the latest Inter Dominion rankings.

Max Delight ran home the fastest last 400 metres  in last Saturday night’s ‘Golden Ticket’ feature The Battle Of Beersheba at Club Menangle.

As such Max Delight moved from eight to six in the third round of ID24 rankings for the pacers released by Harness Racing New South Wales today.

Max Delight has contested in two Inter Dominion Championships, and in the 2021 edition last held at Menangle, finishing fourth in the  Final to Boncel Benjamin.

Other major changes among the pacers rankings include the scratching of the Andy Gath-trained horses Catch A Wave, Tango Tara and Yambukian.

Gath has also scratched Callmethebreeze from the Trotting Championship with a potential trip to New Zealand earmarked for the star trotter.

The major mover among the trotters in the third round of rankings is the Victorian Aldebaran Zeus, which moved from 11 to five after winning the Tony and Jill McGrath Free-For-All at Menangle last Saturday night.

Group One-winning trotter Plymouth Chubb, which is ranked ninth, will be looking for bonus points at Melton this Saturday night has he faces the starter for the first time since January.

The fourth and final round of Inter Dominion rankings will be released on November 20.

The top 36 pacers will qualify for the Inter Dominion Pacing Championship while the top 24 trotters will be accepted for the Inter Dominion Trotting Championship.

While ID24 will be held across three tracks – Bathurst, Newcastle, Menangle -all heats will have 12 starters, with a starting configuration of eight horses off the front and four horses on the second row.

To view the ID24 Third Rankings click here.