Winning form leaves punters spoilt for choice in last at the ’Brook

A little slice of strike-rate history goes on the line at the Muswellbrook meeting today.
Never before has a consistent group of non-carnival sprinters brought in so much winning form to a midweek country race.

It all happens in the benchmark 74 handicap showdown over 1000m to close the meeting in what looms as not only the best betting battle on the day but also a superior form guide for punters heading towards spring. The chief rivals all come in with a swag of winning form.

Talented Scone mare Outishka ($5.50 early) could well jump as favourite third up, aiming to take her winning strike rate to a high-class 43 per cent from 12 starts.

A versatile daughter of Outreach and trained by Scott Singleton, Outishka has only missed a place twice in her career, and comes in off a fast-finishing BM 64 win at Newcastle.

But there’s likely to be plenty of support coming for resuming five-year-old Last Frontier, which is out to claim a fourth win from five starts. Based at Tamworth with Cody Morgan, Last Frontier has been fitted with two progressive trials and will race without blinkers for the first time.

Yet the challengers don’t stop there. Promising Scone mare Fill A Promise is chasing a remarkable fifth straight win this preparation at her 13th start, and four weeks after leading all the way at Quirindi.

On their heels as well is smart Narromine mare Sisters Pick, which boasts five wins from 13 starts and looks well placed third up from the inside draw.

Even runners well into early double-figure odds like Aquarter (five from 16) boasts impressive winning strike rates. In fact, the entire field has clocked up 61 individual career wins at a staggering strike line of every 4.6 times they go around.

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