The eight-year-old bay gelding is trained and driven by Port Pirie’s Paul Fidge, who owns the horse, along with his dad Brian.

They are leasing the horse from Ross Cox, from Tanunda.

“He has had over 100 starts,” Fidge said Monday evening.

“He has won 19 races all up – five in a row.

“Hopefully he will keep his winning stats next weekend in the Whyalla Cup, but it is a bit harder task this year with a bit better horses.”

Fidge said the gelding was being spelled in the paddock when he leased him.

“When I got him, I jogged him up, got him fit, and started him racing,” he said.

“He has won five on the trot.”

The fifth of those was race five at Port Pirie Harness Racing Club on Friday night when he won the Bert and Diddy Thompson Memorial Pace over 2050m.

Fidge has previously had a pacer win five consecutive wins and is hoping to go one better this weekend.

“The weekend is going to be the biggest task and it is the biggest race I have ever been in as a $10,000 Cup,” Fidge said.

After that, punters may have to wait to see SandyIsMyName on the track, as the next Pirie race meeting he is likely to only be able to nominate in a standing start race.

“He may have a bit of a freshen up after Whyalla,” Fidge said.

“He has been race week in – week out for the last six weeks.”

As yet the gelding appears unperturbed by what distance he races over.

“His main task is he is pretty tough – he can do loads of work,” Fidge said.

“He likes the further distances but he has run over the mile as well.

“Nothing really fazes him.

“He just likes the attention.”

Fidge has a racing pedigree having followed in the footsteps of his father Brian, who is also a part-owner of the gelding.

He is hoping pedigree counts with SandyIsMyName as he is soon to start training a yearling which is a half brother to him.

“They had another half sister to him that was very good as a two-year-old but had an accident and never went on,” he said.

“Now the yearling has come along.

“If it is half as good as him it should be alright.”