Racing: Big Twist in driver for favourite at Alex Park 3 Mar, 2021 10:20 AM 2 minutes to read Zac Butcher has the drive on Bettor Twist. Photo / Greg Bowker NZ Herald By: Michael Guerin The game of musical sulky seats behind Friday night's Oaks favourite Bettor Twist appears to have ended with Zac Butcher the winner. The young gun driver was stunned to get the call to drive the $1.70 chance in the $125,000 Northern Oaks for pacing fillies at Alexandra Park after expected driver Mark Purdon was ruled out. Purdon had picked up the drive only 24 hours earlier when Bettor Twist's regular reinsman Tim Williams decided not to travel from Canterbury to Auckland even after being granted a Government travel exemption. It turned out that was a smart move because even if he had got to Auckland, as Purdon did, he wouldn't have been allowed to drive.