False Step

False Step was a New Zealand Standardbred racehorse.

He is notable in that he won three New Zealand Trotting Cup races, the richest harness horse race in New Zealand.

[1] False Step is one of three horses to win the NZ Trotting Cup three times, the others being Indianapolis and Terror to Love.

False Step was also taken to the United States in 1960 by his trainer and reinsman Cecil Devine, who had driven him to victory three times in the New Zealand Cup.

The horse scored success in the International Series at Yonkers Raceway, and also defeated the acknowledged American champion of the time, Adios Butler.