Chittybangbang goes boom at Addington

It is not often that a low key harness racing meeting on a Thursday night  at Addington unearths a horse on his way to much better things but the performance of Chittybangbang last night at Addington Raceway suggested that this is a three year old with a big future.

Settling well back in the field in  the 1950 metres mobile from his wide second row draw, Chittybangbang was sent forward by driver Blair Orange on the three wide train and reached the death seat with 1100 metres to go.

Taking cover behind Extreme Guest who had followed him forward, Chittybangbang was forced three back in the running line down the back straight.

Turning for home, Chittybangbang was still several lengths off the leaders but once Blair had got him balanced, he flew down the outside late to pick them up and beat them with ease.

A three year old son of Gotta Go Cullen, Chittybangbang has a real' blue blood' maternal family being closely related to several smart horses including Courage Under Fire 1:54.2 ($1,485,672) while the three quarter brother to Chittybangbang in Chattanoogachoochoo 1:54.5 ($107,163) continues to race well in Australia.

Chittybangbang has always been held in the highest regard by the Toliman Lodge barn but immaturity has held up his progress to date.

A very good second first up as a two year old behind the talented Cash N Flow suggested a big future at that age but it wasn't to be.

Part owner Wendy Kennard thinks they may have got ahead of themselves.

" Chittybangbang stands close to 16.3 hands and is a big framed horse with it."

" For such a big horse, he has tremendous high speed and showed that at his first start at two but didn't have the strength to go on with it then." 

" Ken (Barron) has always had a very big opinion of the horse and is very confident that once he fully matures, we are going to have a lot of fun with him."

" He likes Chittybangbang that much that he went and bought his three quarter brother at the yearling sales this week."

" Even tonight you can see he is a work in progress but I think he will come into his own in the next 12 months and show people what he is really capable of," Wendy said.

Wendy and Noel Kennard have bought a number of good memories to a lot of people with their "Go Harness " racing syndicates and it was nice to see them getting so much pleasure themselves from last nights win at Addington.

Harnesslink Media