Ladies First
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Allan Sharrock is counting down to Kawi's return to racing with the multiple Group One winner expected to resume at Te Rapa next month.
The New Plymouth trainer has recently welcomed the star Savabeel gelding back to his stable following two months of pre-training.
"We'll probably look at the Foxbridge Plate and the first two at Hastings before we sneak off," Sharrock said.
He was referring to the opening two legs of the Group One series at Hawke's Bay – the Makfi Challenge Stakes and the Windsor Park Plate – ahead of a Melbourne spring carnival campaign.
In the meantime, Sharrock has good reason to expect further progress from the smart filly Ladies First, who won for the second time in her brief career when successful in Saturday's Rayner Building Three-Year-Old at Awapuni.
The daughter of Dylan Thomas and the Australian Group Three winner Just Polite made the perfect debut on the course in May before she headed north.
"We took her to Te Rapa where she was up in class and she sat three wide the trip and had the audacity to run fourth," Sharrock said.
Ladies First had the leader within her sights on the bend on Saturday and once rider Lisa Allpress was able to angle her wider on the track in the straight she drew out to beat Mendip by a couple of lengths.
"She's still a little bit green, but she was authoritative late and she will tighten up with the run," Sharrock said.
Ladies First is scheduled to make her next appearance in the NZB Leasing & Finance 3YO at New Plymouth in a fortnight. – NZ Racing Desk.
The New Plymouth trainer has recently welcomed the star Savabeel gelding back to his stable following two months of pre-training.
"We'll probably look at the Foxbridge Plate and the first two at Hastings before we sneak off," Sharrock said.
He was referring to the opening two legs of the Group One series at Hawke's Bay – the Makfi Challenge Stakes and the Windsor Park Plate – ahead of a Melbourne spring carnival campaign.
In the meantime, Sharrock has good reason to expect further progress from the smart filly Ladies First, who won for the second time in her brief career when successful in Saturday's Rayner Building Three-Year-Old at Awapuni.
The daughter of Dylan Thomas and the Australian Group Three winner Just Polite made the perfect debut on the course in May before she headed north.
"We took her to Te Rapa where she was up in class and she sat three wide the trip and had the audacity to run fourth," Sharrock said.
Ladies First had the leader within her sights on the bend on Saturday and once rider Lisa Allpress was able to angle her wider on the track in the straight she drew out to beat Mendip by a couple of lengths.
"She's still a little bit green, but she was authoritative late and she will tighten up with the run," Sharrock said.
Ladies First is scheduled to make her next appearance in the NZB Leasing & Finance 3YO at New Plymouth in a fortnight. – NZ Racing Desk.