PORTO's best time

PORTO needs regular racing so he went in at the deep end today (Monday 27th) with gains of 31,000 in a race open to horses that had won up to 75,000. Though only 9th and showing he needed a race in the last 100m he ran the fastest he has ever done with a kilometer rate of 1.15.3 - mile rate of 2.01.2 - over 2700m (tape start). There is a good race for him on the 20th. As a matter of interest Pride of Petite holds the New Zealand record for 2700 meters from a standing start at a km rate of 1.15.8. Fraggle Rock holds the mobile start record at a rate of ... 1.15.3! Of course the grand piste at Vincennes is 2000m round and it's a very fast track, but it also has a testing descent and rise.