Undercover
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Victory for Undercover at Awapuni on Saturday may spell the end of his New Zealand career.
Potential buyers have been circling around the son of Alamosa, who will step out in the Rich Hill Stud 3YO on his home track.
"If he was to win then he would be qualified for Hong Kong and there's been a fair bit of interest in him," said trainer Kevin Gray, who with wife Kathleen also bred and races the colt.
"He's out of Shy Belt, who won three races for us and we took her all the way down to Invercargill for a stakes race but she cracked her pelvis.
"She was by Kingdom Bay and we got her home after about four months and had quite a few foals and winners out of her.
"This one (Undercover) got his name because Kathleen didn't think we should have bred from Shy Belt again, but I snuck her around to Bill Gleeson's place to go to Alamosa – I had to keep the mare under cover!"
The resulting offspring showed his ability early on and at his second start at Waverley he beat the subsequent Gr.3 Ethereal Stakes winner and Gr.1 VRC Oaks placegetter Eleonora.
Undercover was then spelled and resumed with a fifth on a premier day at Hawke's Bay before posting consecutive runner-up finishes at Awapuni.
"He's a really nice horse and he's drawn a decent marble on Saturday," Gray said. "We might ride him just a bit colder this time."
Undercover, who will be aimed toward the Gr.1 Randwick Meats Levin Classic if a sale doesn't eventuate, led in his last outing before he was run down by Leading Role, who he meets a kilo better off in the weights in their rematch. – NZ Racing Desk.
Potential buyers have been circling around the son of Alamosa, who will step out in the Rich Hill Stud 3YO on his home track.
"If he was to win then he would be qualified for Hong Kong and there's been a fair bit of interest in him," said trainer Kevin Gray, who with wife Kathleen also bred and races the colt.
"He's out of Shy Belt, who won three races for us and we took her all the way down to Invercargill for a stakes race but she cracked her pelvis.
"She was by Kingdom Bay and we got her home after about four months and had quite a few foals and winners out of her.
"This one (Undercover) got his name because Kathleen didn't think we should have bred from Shy Belt again, but I snuck her around to Bill Gleeson's place to go to Alamosa – I had to keep the mare under cover!"
The resulting offspring showed his ability early on and at his second start at Waverley he beat the subsequent Gr.3 Ethereal Stakes winner and Gr.1 VRC Oaks placegetter Eleonora.
Undercover was then spelled and resumed with a fifth on a premier day at Hawke's Bay before posting consecutive runner-up finishes at Awapuni.
"He's a really nice horse and he's drawn a decent marble on Saturday," Gray said. "We might ride him just a bit colder this time."
Undercover, who will be aimed toward the Gr.1 Randwick Meats Levin Classic if a sale doesn't eventuate, led in his last outing before he was run down by Leading Role, who he meets a kilo better off in the weights in their rematch. – NZ Racing Desk.
