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DEXTER DUNN: New Record

DEXTER DUNN

Dexter Dunn achieved yet another record at Addington last Friday night.

It wasn't the five wins he had on the 11-race card, nor the fact that four of them were in a row, and he's not the first driver to win back-to-back Premier Mare's Championships either.

No, the latest milestone that harness racing's whiz kid added to his burgeoning CV was for reaching 100 wins in a season in the quickest time: 174 days to be exact, 24 less than the previous record of Maurice McKendry's set in 1988/89. Remarkably, Dunn wasn't even born at the time - he came into the world about seven and a half months later. Dunn had been 'knocking' at this record for a while, driving his 100th winner one day too late two seasons ago and over-shooting the cut-off by nearly a fortnight last term.

But he was always looking likely to claim it this time round, because there was no brief stint across the Tasman in August for the likes of the Breeders' Crown so he was here and chipping away at the target much sooner. "I never set out to break records," Dunn says,"if it happens, it happens."

The fact is that he just does though, and after a rollicking start and a plethora of winners it's looking likely that he could top the 200 mark again in 2010/11. He'll be away overseas for most of July when he represents New Zealand at the World Driving Championships, but at his current rate he'll probably have put the double-tonne behind him before he hops on the plane.

In fact, the only records really left for Dunn to break now are his own ones.

Credit: John Robinson writing in HRWeekly 26Jan11