Brah Spring
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Versatile horseman Murray Tapper is expecting Brah Spring to give another genuine account of herself at Thursday's Otago meeting.
The Timaru-based handler said the Darci Brahma mare was in excellent order for the Wingatui Function Centre Rating 75 and track conditions would be to her liking.
"She's a lovely horse to train and she's going well," Tapper said. "She's not up with the best, but in Rating 75 or 85 races she's very competitive and a mile is her best trip.
"If the weather stays okay we might put her up to 1950m in the Marlborough Cup. She can get back and do nothing in the first 600 or 800m and she's got a good sprint – she can pick up three or four lengths very quickly."
Brah Spring reached her level in the North Island after two wins from the Cambridge stable of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman and she has added a further five victories since transferring south.
"I certainly haven't done anything different – it's just easier for her down here," Tapper said. "She's no trouble and she enjoys the open spaces out here with the trotters."
Tapper also has a team of standardbreds and he has enjoyed outstanding success in that code with the top trotter Stylish Monarch.
"He won three Group Ones, including a Dominion Handicap," he said.
Tapper also has a strong chance in the Brook Maiden at Wingatui with Hot Tempo, another former Baker-Forsman galloper raced by the connections of Brah Spring.
The Per Incanto filly has placed in three of her six starts and two runs back was third to Caprikosa, who has subsequently won another race. – NZ Racing Desk.
The Timaru-based handler said the Darci Brahma mare was in excellent order for the Wingatui Function Centre Rating 75 and track conditions would be to her liking.
"She's a lovely horse to train and she's going well," Tapper said. "She's not up with the best, but in Rating 75 or 85 races she's very competitive and a mile is her best trip.
"If the weather stays okay we might put her up to 1950m in the Marlborough Cup. She can get back and do nothing in the first 600 or 800m and she's got a good sprint – she can pick up three or four lengths very quickly."
Brah Spring reached her level in the North Island after two wins from the Cambridge stable of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman and she has added a further five victories since transferring south.
"I certainly haven't done anything different – it's just easier for her down here," Tapper said. "She's no trouble and she enjoys the open spaces out here with the trotters."
Tapper also has a team of standardbreds and he has enjoyed outstanding success in that code with the top trotter Stylish Monarch.
"He won three Group Ones, including a Dominion Handicap," he said.
Tapper also has a strong chance in the Brook Maiden at Wingatui with Hot Tempo, another former Baker-Forsman galloper raced by the connections of Brah Spring.
The Per Incanto filly has placed in three of her six starts and two runs back was third to Caprikosa, who has subsequently won another race. – NZ Racing Desk.