Darryl Lozier has misses half of the previous eight finals with only a tenth (Bluegrass Derby) and a fourth (Hickory Derby) to show for it. Yet he remains ahead of the rest in the standings and goes this week in heat one along with Andy Bing and Chris Henton. Bing has hit on his own hard times with four final appearances in ten weeks and just a single point since winning the Ohio Derby and Golden Gate Invitational a fortnight apart, and Henton snapped his two week absence after a string of eight straight showings, but could only manage dead last in the final at Winslow.
In heat two current runner-up Will Thompson, who has six finals out of the last seven, leads a stacked field that includes Tom Gariepy, Joe Ramage, Norm Gibson, Jamie Eilers and Ben Hadsell who all combine for eleven event wins and twenty-podiums in sixty-two appearances. The joint winner of last week Lynne Higgins also goes in this heat. John McCrory, the other winner, goes in heat one.
After his final streak was snapped at five weeks Scott Hutchins in a prime position to make a big splash in heat three as he heads a relatively weak field as his closest rival in the standings is Sam Harbin who sits in nineteenth position.
No comments:
Post a Comment