{"id":6881,"date":"2026-04-05T09:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/hollywood-strip-bounces-back-in-yirribee-wagga-cup-harnesslink\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:51:49","slug":"hollywood-strip-bounces-back-in-yirribee-wagga-cup-harnesslink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/hollywood-strip-bounces-back-in-yirribee-wagga-cup-harnesslink\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Strip bounces back in Yirribee Wagga Cup – Harnesslink"},"content":{"rendered":"

New South Wales\u2019 leading three year old Hollywood Strip (Sweet Lou<\/strong>) made amends for his surprise harness racing defeat in last week\u2019s Gold Chalice Final with a commanding win against older horses in the Yirribee Stud Wagga Pacers Cup at the Riverina Raceway on Saturday night.
Drawn the outside of the front row Hollywood Strip wasn\u2019t the fastest away and driver Brad Hewitt was content to allow the big imposing gelding time to settle. It looked as if he might be caught outside Wamboyneinamerica but Hewitt pressed on and he forged to the lead.
Michayway who might have been his only danger having worked his way into the one out and one back trail and eased out on the final bend.
But Hollywood Strip given a bit more rein by Hewitt simply sprinted clear leaving his rivals standing and in running his last quarter in 27.1 seconds comfortably held off Michayway by just under ten metres with Mike Ross getting up on the inside for third.
Hollywood Strip rated an impressive 1.53 for the 2240 metres.
HOLLYWOOD STRIP 4 APR REPLAY<\/strong>
Harness racing pundits may well have questioned Hewitt in why he backed up a week later. Prior to the event Hewitt explained the factors behind his loss at Bathurst:
It\u2019s the first time he\u2019s seen any cover in the race and its been a bit of a hard ask. He\u2019s been asked to go this whole prep with the Derby being over a mile and that he\u2019s been ready to rock and roll. He\u2019s still got a lot to learn that\u2019s why I bought him over here tonight he\u2019s going to spell over at Mick Boot\u2019s (the owner) place So I thought come over and give him another look, it\u2019s his first race over 2200 metres which will do him good.
There\u2019s been a little pressure off now that he\u2019s been beaten. It was going to happen some time. The only I was a bit disappointed was how he raced. He was pretty untractable and didn\u2019t race good at all. If he didn\u2019t do that I think he might have still won. This will be his last run this prep and he\u2019ll come back next time.
Interview courtesy Paul Campbell, Campbell’s Comments
Hollywood Strip now has the excellent record of ten wins and one placing from his eleven starts to date with stake earnings just under $300,000.
As Hewitt indicated he only needs to be more settled in his racing to develop into an outstanding prospect in his future career.
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New South Wales\u2019 leading three year old Hollywood Strip (Sweet Lou) made amends for his surprise harness racing defeat in last week\u2019s Gold Chalice Final with a commanding win against older horses in the Yirribee Stud Wagga Pacers Cup at the Riverina Raceway on Saturday night.Drawn the outside of the front row Hollywood Strip wasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}