Recite
Photo- Trish Dunell
Dual Group One winner Recite will tackle the Gr.1 JR &N Berkett Telegraph (1200m) fresh up at Trentham on January 16.
The five-year-old mare galloped over 1000m between races at Taupo last week, pleasing trainer John Bary.
"I needed to get a gallop into her and she did it well," Bary said.
"She's run 1:01 and come home in 35 seconds [last 600m] and she looked like she was doing pace work. She didn't break a sweat.
"She'll go straight to the Telegraph. She's just a horse that runs well fresh and she holds the track record at Matamata when she was first up."
Bary pinpointed the abandoned Windsor Park Plate meeting at Hastings as a tipping point that lead to a disappointing spring for his team, including Recite.
"I just ran into bad track, after bad track, Bary said. "The day at Hastings when the races were called off I had eight entered, and it put me, and a lot of trainers, on the back foot."
Recite raced well first up last preparation, narrowly failing to run down Allez Eagle over 1400m, with his recent Group One Railway conqueror Ryan Mark finishing third.
The daughter of Darci Brahma then finished second to Kisses in the Taranaki Breeders' Stakes, when galloped on, before trailing the field home in the rescheduled Windsor Park Plate at Trentham.
"She was in season when she raced at Wellington," Bary said. "Even if she'd won the Windsor Park Plate, she would have still freshened up and been set for the Telegraph. That has been the plan all the way along.
"She's a classy animal at her best and hopefully we'll see her at her best on January 16." –NZ Racing Desk.
The five-year-old mare galloped over 1000m between races at Taupo last week, pleasing trainer John Bary.
"I needed to get a gallop into her and she did it well," Bary said.
"She's run 1:01 and come home in 35 seconds [last 600m] and she looked like she was doing pace work. She didn't break a sweat.
"She'll go straight to the Telegraph. She's just a horse that runs well fresh and she holds the track record at Matamata when she was first up."
Bary pinpointed the abandoned Windsor Park Plate meeting at Hastings as a tipping point that lead to a disappointing spring for his team, including Recite.
"I just ran into bad track, after bad track, Bary said. "The day at Hastings when the races were called off I had eight entered, and it put me, and a lot of trainers, on the back foot."
Recite raced well first up last preparation, narrowly failing to run down Allez Eagle over 1400m, with his recent Group One Railway conqueror Ryan Mark finishing third.
The daughter of Darci Brahma then finished second to Kisses in the Taranaki Breeders' Stakes, when galloped on, before trailing the field home in the rescheduled Windsor Park Plate at Trentham.
"She was in season when she raced at Wellington," Bary said. "Even if she'd won the Windsor Park Plate, she would have still freshened up and been set for the Telegraph. That has been the plan all the way along.
"She's a classy animal at her best and hopefully we'll see her at her best on January 16." –NZ Racing Desk.