Te Akau Awapuni Preview

Te Akau New Zealand has three horses racing on Friday 1 March at Awapuni - twilight meeting.

As on Thursday 28 February the conditions were: fine and Dead4, rail out 2 metres home turn and 6 metres the remainder. No rain forecast.

5.15 p.m. R5 2 Al Haram (6 g Sea the Stars - En Public) - Nik Bakar (a3); closed
the margin from last and worked on solidly after the line when resuming in the
Rating 82 1400 metres on 6 February at Tauranga. A winner at 2000 metres and
stakes placed three times over 2200 metres in France, by the exceptional 1600m
- 2400m European Champion Three-Year-Old and European Horse of the Year Sea the
Stars (Cape Cross), he rates a top three chance with weight relief to 55kgs in
the $11,000 Rating 82 1550 metres.

5.53 p.m. R6 4 Golden Age (3 g Savabeel - La Belle
Epoque) - Dylan Turner; found the line for a notable sixth on debut at
Matamata, closed solidly for fourth at Avondale, and just missed (head) when
second in the Maiden 1600 metres on 15 February at Wanganui, ridden by Turner.
With blinkers on, he appears ideally placed to threaten in the $10,000 Maiden
1550 metres.

6.23 p.m. R7 8 Witchery (4 m Savabeel - Now the World)
- Rosie Myers; was a cosy Maiden winner and resumed with a good third, after
being held up, in the NZB Pearl Series Rating 65 1200 metres on 23 January at
Avondale, clocking the equal fastest last 600m (34.3) on the day with winner
Sistabeel (Savabeel). She had no chance from the rear in the NZB Pearl Series
Rating 65 1400 metres on very firm ground at Tauranga, 6 February, and rates an
each way chance from barrier three in the $10,000 Rating 65 1400 metres.

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