Can a two-time champion become a Vicbred legend?

15 September 2023
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There is a touch of Makybe Diva about Amore Vita’s quest for a harness racing history at Melton on Saturday night.

Makybe Diva famously won three successive Melbourne Cups, but changed trainers to Lee Freedman after David Hall secured the first in 2003.

Amore Vita won the two-year-old fillies’ Vicbred Super Series final for Nathan Purdon on December 31, 2012, and was transferred to Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin’s stables at Purdon’s suggestion. He returned to his New Zealand homeland 10 weeks before she won the three-year-old fillies’ final last New Year’s Eve.

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