Te Akau NZ Awapuni Preview

Te Akau New Zealand has four horses entered during the nine-race programme on Tuesday Nov. 12 at Awapuni.

As at 8:31am on Monday Nov. 11 the conditions were: cloudy and Dead4, rail true.

2:25pm R4 10 Sovereign Rose (6 m Pins - Pavan) - Matt Cameron; brings solid efforts to the Benchmark 75 2100 metres despite her form line suggesting otherwise. Finding the line in each of her resuming races over 1400 and 1600 metres, respectively, she gets up to a more suitable trip and has drawn handily in barrier three. She has continued to work well and likely to be at false odds in this field.

3:00pm R5 3 Clos De Tart (4 m Darci Brahma - Rapid Kay) - Mick Dee (a2); comes in off 39-days after finishing fourth on Oct. 4 in the Benchmark 65 1400 metres at Te Rapa. Up to a mile she will look to find cover from barrier eleven. Her form has been solid in three starts since a let up and warrants respect in this field. Her dam, Rapid Kay (Towkay), also trained by Te Akau, impressed in a career of five victories from 1300m to 1600m, as too her half-sister, Skittle (Pins), an impressive winner amongst five wins to date.

3:30pm R6 7 Bronte Lass (5 m Stravinsky - Little Dorritt) - Matt Cameron; raced handy to the pace and after showing good acceleration to lead mid-straight she finished close up in third on Oct. 24 in the Benchmark 85 1600 metres at Hastings. A head, and a nose, from Marotiri Miss and Ringo is very good form for this race over the same trip and she can give it a decent shake with a deft ride by barrier ten.

5:30pm R9 4 O'Darci (3 g Darci Brahma - O'Sequita) - Matt Cameron; resumed in quite devastating fashion when powering clear from a handy position on the rails to win the Benchmark 65 1400 metres by 3 ½ lengths on Oct. 24 at Hastings. Now the winner of two from two, he steps to a Rating 75 race over the same trip from barrier one. While the likes of Wannabe, Park Princess, Poetic Licence, Salamanca, and North and South, bolster the field, he appears to have what it takes to gain their measure.

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