Racing: Watch this trotter Whiz by

It hardly seems fair.

Our Sunny Whiz is just a four-year-old with only a handful of career starts and yet tonight at Alexandra Park she receives just a paltry 10m start from last season's Interdominion champion, Play On.

And her champion driver Maurice McKendry agrees it isn't fair. Because the open class trotters who take Our Sunny Whiz on tonight could get windburn.

"If things go her way I think she can go straight past them," said McKendry.

"I know it is a big step up but she is something special and I have been saying for a while she wouldn't be out of place in open class. I guess we will find out this week."

Tonight's Lion Red Trot is by far the biggest test of Our Sunny Whiz's career, getting just that 10m start from Play On, Rosscoe and Bangers And Mash while she has to share the 20m mark with Wee Annie, who has already beaten another Interdominion champion in Delft this season.

But she only has to race up to her last-start performance at Alexandra Park to continue on her winning way.

That was when Our Sunny Whiz produced one of the trotting performances of the season to win an intermediate grade trot after being 80m from the leaders soon after the start.

"She was reshod before the start and had her leg in the air for a long time and when they let her go she was all over the place.

"She trotted very roughly early and the only reason she held her gait is because she is such a good horse.

"But when I looked up after a couple of hundred metres I thought we were no chance of winning.

"It was some performance and if she goes like that again even these open class horses this week will have to watch out."

Our Sunny Whiz has been beaten just once in eight starts and is clearly the most exciting trotter in New Zealand.

She could not have picked a better time to step into the big time either, with only Delft, Pompallier and Allegro Agitato holding any fears for her.

"I am not saying she is going to go to open class and just keep winning because in this grade they all need a bit of luck," said McKendry.

"But she is as good as most of them already."

McKendry warns punters to stick with his female drives tonight, with both Blackbird Fly (race one) and Badabing Badaboom (race six) rated good chances.

"Blackbird Fly looked one of the better fillies early in the season so I think she will be hard to beat in the first while Badabing Badaboom was unlucky here last week.

"She got pushed back and never got a crack at them. Still will need some luck to beat Molly Darling but she should be in the finish."