THE Sunday dawned a nicer day. It is a proven fact that grade-for-grade pacers are two or three seconds faster than trotters over the mile. The limited crowd was hoping to see some ‘big miles’ from the young pacers on show and the sidewheelers did not disappoint.

The IHRA has invested in a high-tech photo-finish machine and it was needed in both the two- and three-year-old divisions of the pacing fillies.