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Time has brought out the best in Wait A Sec with the Hastings seven-year-old in the form of his life to tackle upcoming stakes challenges.
The son of Postponed posted his fifth win from his last six starts when he came from the tail of the field to claim Saturday’s Bostock New Zealand Spring Carnival Handicap on his home track.
“He’s matured now and he’s a very happy horse, he’s going really well,” said Guy Lowry, who trains Wait A Sec with Grant Cullen.
“He’ll run in the open 2000 on the second day of the meeting and then the Livamol in preparation for the New Zealand Cup.”
Wait A Sec settled well back in the running, but a hot speed was always going to be in his favour and the gelding wound up powerfully over the closing 300 metres under rider Lisa Allpress.
“The pace was on and they all came back to him,” Lowry said. “To be fair, the others were carrying a fair bit more weight than us on 53.5kg.”
Allpress has now won three times on Wait A Sec, although she hasn’t been aboard the horse in his recent racing.
“He’s been a good horse to me and I was glad to get back on, I thought he would be a good chance,” she said.
Runner-up Woodsman strode to the front 650 metres from home and he fought on bravely in the run home while King Krovanh turned in his best run for some time with his effort for third.
Nymph Monte, another Gr.1 Livamol Classic hopeful, found the line strongly for fourth ahead of Amarula, who was sound under the topweight of 60kg. – NZ Racing Desk.