Max Delight wins the 2023 Sokyola Sprint at Melton

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Max Delight, trained by David Aiken and driven by Nathan Jack wins the 2023 Sokyola Sprint at Melton on December 23, 2023.  Footage courtesy of TrotsVision and Harness Racing Victoria

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00:00 and then 650 about number four

00:06 $7. G Max Delights price is

00:10 halved. A Victoria Cup winner.

00:12 A young cup winner at his last

00:14 start. They're ready to go.

00:17 Race five. Men's standard

00:20 bread. So, sprint. Ready for

00:23 the first leg of the good

00:24 field. Green light racing.

00:27 Captain and outlaw man are

00:28 heading to the 1200. Fankwe

00:31 Stride. Outlaw man with its

00:33 neck in front. Like captain

00:34 holding the inside at the

00:35 moment. Sahara Tiger slots into

00:37 the one one. Bulletproof boy is

00:39 up to fifty outside and beyond

00:41 delights three back the pegs

00:42 into the first turn and then

00:43 surge Blanco from Max Delight

00:45 and from wider draws triple

00:47 eight and hot deal go back to

00:48 the rear. Like captain's in

00:50 front with on the outside

00:51 outlaw man just eyeballing it

00:53 but they're not going super

00:54 quick as they head to the

00:56 twelve hundred. Leaders back

00:57 to the front. Blanco has got it

00:59 in for a trail one one. Beyond

01:00 Delight, the favorite locked

01:01 away on the pegs. Fifth. Twenty

01:03 eight four for that first

01:04 split on the outside. Six is

01:06 Bulletproof Boy. Then, surge

01:08 Blanco from Max Delight. Uh

01:11 Triple H last the outside

01:12 trying to flush out uh Max

01:14 Delight of which it does and

01:15 hot deal just up in front of a

01:17 couple as they head out of the

01:18 straight 900 to go. Leader is

01:20 like captain. It was a solid

01:22 enough tempo without law man

01:23 on the outside uh maintaining

01:25 that little bit of pressure.

01:27 Uh three wide. He's been

01:28 flushed out from the second

01:29 half of the field now and

01:30 Bulletproof Boy is one of them.

01:32 He comes out three deep and

01:33 Max Delight tracks him up.

01:35 Second quarter in 30.3 and the

01:38 leader captain from outlaw man

01:40 third is a stride. Bulletproof

01:42 Boy moves up three wide around

01:43 Sahara Tiger. Max Delight three

01:46 wide with cover surge Blanco

01:47 now in the middle and then came

01:49 beyond the light is locked

01:50 away. Uh triple eight three

01:52 wide three back last the inside

01:53 hot deal as they leave the back

01:54 straight. The captain two

01:56 wide. Bulletproof Boy called on

01:57 now exposed out three deep. The

01:59 captain travels well up to the

02:01 turn. It beat off outlaw man

02:02 then Vanquish Max Delight to the

02:05 outside but like captain rolled

02:06 away from them off the back in

02:08 28 one for the third quarter.

02:09 It's like captain five meters

02:11 Vanquish trying to pick up now

02:13 Max Delight getting home but

02:14 it's like captain five meters

02:16 in front halfway up the straight

02:18 Max Delight's charging like

02:19 captain in front Max Delight

02:21 beyond the light gets out. They

02:23 hit it. Oh close. Max Delight

02:25 lands on the outside with like

02:29 captain and beyond the light

02:30 might have just missed. It was a

02:32 great go inside out. Uh we've

02:34 got like captain beyond the

02:36 light. Max Delight the widest

02:37 is really lands. What a finish

02:39 it turned out to be. Uh then in

02:42 behind those runners. Uh

02:44 Vanquish tried to have a chance

02:45 in the straight. Uh hot deal

02:47 surge Blanco not far away.

02:49 Triple eight bulletproof boy

02:50 just weakened out of it and so

02:52 too did the outlaw man and

02:54 he's got it. He's got the tiger

02:56 and Max Delight's got it. Yep.

02:57 He's got up right on the line.

02:59 Number eleven. Max Delight has

03:02 got up the old boy. Well, I say

03:05 he's an old boy. He's actually

03:06 not that old but he's been

03:07 around for a while. He hadn't

03:09 won for a long time and one of

03:11 the moves that I reckon has

03:12 made the big difference. They

03:14 took him away to win a a race

03:16 at Wagga and it's made all the

03:17 difference. He knows how to win

03:20 a race again. He's found his

03:21 mojo. He was well supported

03:23 by the team. Eleven, three,

03:27 eight, and ten. Eleven, three,

03:28 eight, and ten. Twenty-six

03:29 eight was that dash home and

03:31 he's made up a few lengths.

03:32 Mile rate of 153. Wow. Some

03:35 performance. Max Delight and

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