Collision Course: Star Siblings Sweep MDC Heats

PROGENY from Collision and Solar Pak have taken out all three MDC heats with Good Odds Harada and Solar Sky joining Feral Franky at Bathurst on Monday.

WHATEVER you can do, well I can do … just as good.

That was the message the Frank Hurst-trained Good Odds Harada sent his brother Feral Franky at Bathurst on Monday evening, going within a length of the track record to take out the opening heat of the TAB Million Dollar Chase (520m).

While his more decorated Group 1 winning brother was nestled away at his Forbes base for trainer Ray Smith following his Gunnedah MDC romp on Saturday, Good Odds Harada reminded all and sundry he's also a force to be reckoned with in the $1 million to-the-winner series, turning in a stunning Bathurst performance on Monday.

Recording a sizzling 29.30 at his Bathurst debut, just a length outside Falcon's Fury's 29.24 track record, Good Odds Harada, a last start second in the National Sprint Grand Final at Cannington, was a crushing winner of the opening heat, scoring by 10 ¼ lengths over the track's 450-metre record holder Double Up Dee.

And in a stunning turn of events, just 20 minutes after Good Odds Harada's spectacular win, his litter-sister Solar Sky landed the second MDC heat for Ray Smith in a slick 29.77, meaning progeny of Collision and Solar Pak have taken out all three qualifiers thus far.

Whipping around the outside to run right away with the second heat, Solar Sky continued her outstanding Bathurst record, defeating Group 1 Paws Of Thunder Buck's Future in determined fashion.

And while the three siblings have claimed the three Million Dollar Chase heats thus far, that winning return may swell even further at Dapto this Thursday night when Good Odds Buddy contests the third heat of that series, while litter-sister Good Odds Meghan will take her place in the opening qualifier.

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