Don't waste your breathe arguing with Stiltskin, all talk and no idea. See below when he was bagging the mighty pacer Lazarus halfway through the Perth Interdominion series. Lazarus went on to do all the work and still cruise home first in the final.
A month later his head second in the Fremantle Cup after tramping three wide the journey was talked about by the experts as possibly the greatest run ever seen in Australia/NZ harness racing history.
"Leanne, he's not an out and out champion if he requires decent marbles. As I said previously, he wins a lot of his races in NZ by virtue of his stablemates yielding to him and getting a soft lead or carting him up in the 3 wide train. His record in open company in Australia is not overly impressive. Tuesday night Tiger Tara belted out strong fractions after pinging out. Lazarus had a nice easy slide with cover to get to the chair and still couldn't get up.
Bear in mind the final will be a much stronger overall field and he will not be afforded the luxury of utilzing any stablemates in that either. He's up against it and has too many flaws in his armoury in what appears to be a final that will have some depth. It's a far stronger environment than what he has been dealing with in NZ and the trainer knows"
