It was the night of the “we didn’t know what to expect” horses in Addington on Friday evening.
Not that someone doubted the armor racing power of Alta Meteor, the chocolates, Oscar Bonavena or even earlier treacherous baby in the solid 13-race card on Friday evening.
It was just that they all had at least a few questions about their heads.
They answered those questions with a pure class.
In the case of Alta Meteor in the Avon City Ford New Brighton Cup, it also helped that he has great starting ways and driver Tim Williams could control the race.
That was enough to answer the questions about whether he could be the goal after an airway infection since his last race, with his natural athletic ability to do the rest as important Rivals Akuta and we are walking too far with faith.
“We came here and wondered how he would go after that setback,” said co-trainer Amanda Telfer.
“But he is now in the cup (NZ) and we can place it where we want to prepare him for that.”
We Walk by Faith was excellent in the second place, while Franco Marek and Renegade were too, but Akuta blew out late when trainer-director Mark Purdon Gokkers warned that he could.
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All in all, a good next step in the direction of spring for the first five at home.
Got the chocolates who had his questions on his way to the Ian Dobson Memorial, because John Dunn did not want to keep him to the sword and that had speed maappers who thought that the heavily covered rubura and bar Louie would arrange the race.
They did that. It didn’t matter.
After they solved herself early, the chocolates were parked, but he simply surpassed the winner of Queensland Derby in a stunning victory, making them clear the closer they got on the line.
If it were not for the market, the chocolates would have a stunningly exciting summer. Because it is now the question, can he finally be a big creepy? I hope so a bit.
Nowadays there are always questions about Oscar Bonavena.
Will he behave? Is he 100 percent? Is he too old? Could it even save him?
But once he stepped better than the most important rival Muscle Mountain and within 800m, a road to the one-one ITM-Bebeveving of $ 40,000 of him worked.
His rivals all gave each other difficult and Oscar laughed back and wondered when they had to open the pain in the pain.
When he did it, it did badly when he hit his rivals and now finds remarkably remarkable again as a favorite for the Renwick Farms Dominion on Cup Day.
If he wins the Dominion again, they must call the Addington Stabling Block to Oscar.
Ok, that can be a step too far. But they should call a stall or two after him for Oddball, old, beautiful carriers who can do magic tricks like that Oscar continues to pull.
Did you know that Oscar Bonavena is named after the Profesional Boxer Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena, who had 58 career victories.
Oscar The horse now has 35.
Treacherous baby was the other former winner of Group 1 who returned to Addington with a victory on Friday evening and she defeated a number of very smart guys, although trainer-director Purdon was delivered that she had missed some work after her final start.
Again her beautiful journey in the running meant that less mattered and she won as the very good mare in which she changes.
The other winners had a lot of class about them, such as Lizzie Borden in the Opener and Stumblin at the Juvenile Pace, while Celestial Sea was fantastic in her Nevele R -Hitte to go home a good night for Team Dunn – John Dunn with four winning drives.
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Through Michael GuerinFor Harnas Racing New -Zeeland
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