Trail Blazer's owner Dick Karreman (right) with Rick Williams
Trish Dunell
Trail Blazer's eye-catching debut performance has earned her a much earlier than anticipated shot at black type.
"I didn't expect to come away from a two-year-old race at Waipa thinking she would be having her next start in a stakes race," said Rick Williams, general and racing manager of The Oaks Stud.
That will be in Saturday's Listed Graeme Thomson Jewellers Great Northern Foal Stakes at Ellerslie.
By The Oaks Stud's resident sire Roc de Cambes, the Robert Priscott-trained Trail Blazer placed in both her lead-up trials before she finished powerfully to run third at the first time of asking earlier this month.
"She didn't handle the bends too well at Waipa and once she was balanced she savaged the line," Williams said.
"She's very strong physically and she's already looking for the 1400 metres and she will love Ellerslie. She doesn't mind wet tracks either and that's obviously what she's going to get on Saturday."
Trail Blazer is from a family that Priscott knows well as he prepared the filly's mother Hot Pursuit to win two races and gain black type placings before injury forced her retirement.
Meanwhile, Roc de Cambes associate stallion Darci Brahma enjoyed a productive weekend in Sydney last Saturday with a winning double from the Chris Waller-trained pair of New Universe and Dagny.
"New Universe is well above average and up to stakes class," Williams said. "He won despite not liking the track."
He won two of his three starts from Chris Wood's Cambridge yard as Dark Universe before his sale and he is unbeaten in two Australian appearances while Dagny is the winner of four of his 12 starts. – NZ Racing Desk.
"I didn't expect to come away from a two-year-old race at Waipa thinking she would be having her next start in a stakes race," said Rick Williams, general and racing manager of The Oaks Stud.
That will be in Saturday's Listed Graeme Thomson Jewellers Great Northern Foal Stakes at Ellerslie.
By The Oaks Stud's resident sire Roc de Cambes, the Robert Priscott-trained Trail Blazer placed in both her lead-up trials before she finished powerfully to run third at the first time of asking earlier this month.
"She didn't handle the bends too well at Waipa and once she was balanced she savaged the line," Williams said.
"She's very strong physically and she's already looking for the 1400 metres and she will love Ellerslie. She doesn't mind wet tracks either and that's obviously what she's going to get on Saturday."
Trail Blazer is from a family that Priscott knows well as he prepared the filly's mother Hot Pursuit to win two races and gain black type placings before injury forced her retirement.
Meanwhile, Roc de Cambes associate stallion Darci Brahma enjoyed a productive weekend in Sydney last Saturday with a winning double from the Chris Waller-trained pair of New Universe and Dagny.
"New Universe is well above average and up to stakes class," Williams said. "He won despite not liking the track."
He won two of his three starts from Chris Wood's Cambridge yard as Dark Universe before his sale and he is unbeaten in two Australian appearances while Dagny is the winner of four of his 12 starts. – NZ Racing Desk.