Q&A with Mark Jones

1:  Best horse who have ever been associated or worked with:
Christian Cullen, great gaited and amazing what he went through to be so brilliant 

2: Best horse you have ever seen live:
Christian Cullen. He was a champion from two-year-old through to  being a NZ Cup winner 

3: Best horse you have seen in any form (live, on tv, on the internet):
Winx 

4: If you could have any driver in history driving for you in the most important race of your life, it would be?:  
Peter Jones

5: The best trainer you have ever seen:
Mark and Barry Purdon

6: Your favourite racetrack:
Nelson

7: The unluckiest or hardest to swallow defeat of your career:
Getting knocked over on Bling It On and crashing at Albion Park in a Group Race and injuring the horse when going to shit in! Lucky Luke took it okay!

8: The race you have never won but would love to:
New Zealand Cup

9: The horse we never got to see the best of is:
Saveapatrol 

10: The racing win, yours or somebody elses, that gave you the most joy:
Master Lavros -second Dominion win for all the hard work and headaches he caused for me, Regan and Kypros 

11: Who is the person in harness racing you haven’t seen since lockdown started you are looking forward to seeing the most when we get back to the track:
The winning photographer after a race! 

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