Harness Racing,Harold Park-07/03/1980 Miracle Mile (Locarno-R.Butt)

This is the fourteenth running of the Craven Filter Miracle Mile from Sydney's Harold Park Paceway.Here we see Robin Butt in the sulky behind the New Zealand pacer Locarno,as they take out this great race.Locarno,a 20/1 outsider in the Harold Park betting ring stormed home to beat Pure Steel (T.Demmler) & Paleface Adios (C.Pike).Paleface Adios was contesting his seventh Miracle Mile.The race-caller is the late Brian Howard.Enjoy the great memories of Harold Park.

[@beauvearing8450]

Was 17 back then, loved the trots, and 🐨 King 👑 was me fave! Cheers 🍻

[@brendonoconnor4484]

Just a great shame the Miracle Mile was run on this greyhound track for so many years, Lord Module was still trying to see daylight as they crossed the finish.
This win by Locarno was one of the great wins in a Miracle Mile, to be last with a lap to go and to circle the entire field with an electrifying turn of foot against the best horses and win by about 2 metres was something special, can't remember another Miracle Mile where the winner was still last with 300m to go.
Thanks for the upload.

[@jugdementday1]

Wow ! What a run. Never seen this before.

[@howardhorne1829]

How good was that. Some of the greats running at arguably the best trotting track ever!

[@bpro3396]

Beautiful

[@stephenlancaster7038]

Was there that night Locarno 20 to 1 outsider from NZ

[@peterwhelan6144]

The crowds ( and bookmakers ) flocked to the trots during the sixties and seventies . The tight tracks made for exciting racing right in your lap- something that was lost when they went to bigger tracks . Locarno did a Cocky Raider that night and flew home to hit the front just in time

[@marknorris1381]

It was still like that when I started going to the trots in the late 70's early 80's. At Albion Park there was a huge bookmakers ring and the track would be packed with people, just for a standard Saturday night meeting. And this for a smaller clockwise direction track.

[@travels129]

They should never have closed harold park great atmosphere and ledgends raced there also the best greyhound track in the world . Maybe got rid of Wentworth Park instead?