Red Hot Rocket changes luck
Trainer-driver Gavin Smith turned around a quiet Christmas-New Year run when winning Tuesday’s feature trot at Oamaru. Smith’s team had been luckless through the festive period and the trainer went in to the meeting without having notched a winner since Cabazon Victory’s win at Forbury Park in early December. Smith’s bad run of fortune continued when he was tipped from the sulky from Miss Pinocchio, who was the favourite for race 3. “She began really well, but the horse besid