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Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman sent a team of two to Otaki on Monday with Not Usual June breaking her maiden in the Gardner Homes (1200m) at the fourth time of asking.
The three-year-old filly got the better of the well-supported Press Release over the concluding stages to win narrowly.
“I thought she'd come to the end of her run 200m out, but things were probably in her favour when the favourite was three-deep without cover and that told the last little bit,” Forsman said.
“She was more here as a travelling mate for the two-year-old (Rhaegar), to help him out.
“We knew she was working up well enough, it was just whether she was race fit was the question mark.”
Rhaegar started a $2.90 favourite in the Kapiti Signs (800m) two-year-old event but was a well beaten fifth behind the impressive winner Trifolium with stablemate Miss Sweet Pee providing Marton trainer Fraser Auret with the quinella.
Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman sent a team of two to Otaki on Monday with Not Usual June breaking her maiden in the Gardner Homes (1200m) at the fourth time of asking.
The three-year-old filly got the better of the well-supported Press Release over the concluding stages to win narrowly.
“I thought she'd come to the end of her run 200m out, but things were probably in her favour when the favourite was three-deep without cover and that told the last little bit,” Forsman said.
“She was more here as a travelling mate for the two-year-old (Rhaegar), to help him out.
“We knew she was working up well enough, it was just whether she was race fit was the question mark.”
Rhaegar started a $2.90 favourite in the Kapiti Signs (800m) two-year-old event but was a well beaten fifth behind the impressive winner Trifolium with stablemate Miss Sweet Pee providing Marton trainer Fraser Auret with the quinella.