Te Akau Trans Tasman Friday Preview

Te Akau Racing has two horses entered on Friday 23 October at New Plymouth, and one horse entered at Cranbourne, Victoria.

New Plymouth: 

Weather: cloudy, track: Soft6, rail: out 7 metres. No rain forecast. 

2:08 p.m. R3 3 Chica De Oro (4 m Medaglia d’Oro – Channeled’s Lady) – Michael McNab; she came off the trail and was strong through the line when resuming with victory in the Maiden 1600 metres on 3 October at Matamata. Contesting the $18,500 Entain/NZB Insurance Pearl Series Rating 65 Fillies & Mares 1600 metres (eligible $26,000 bonuses), she raced well in her three starts to 2100 metres last season, commenced this new campaign in good fashion, and rates a top three chance from barrier two. Fixed odds: $2.30 & $1.25.

2:43 p.m. R4 11 Viridian (3 f Noverre – Niamh Elizabeth) – Michael McNab; she got back in the rear group, couldn’t find much racing room behind runners in the straight, but ran on over a sprint distance when trialling on 6 October at Matamata. Debuting in the $18,500 Maiden 3YO 1200 metres, she looked good winning a trial beforehand at Avondale, her family performs well when fresh and is a home bred daughter of Niamh Elizabeth (Per Incanto) who has to date left five winners of nine races, and she’s a filly who looks nicely placed to race well from barrier five. Fixed odds: $2.90 & $1.30. She also holds a nomination for Race 5 at 3:18 p.m. where she has drawn barrier three.

Cranbourne:

Weather: fine, track: Good4, rail: true. No rain forecast. 

11:45 p.m. (NZ) - 9:45 p.m. (Vic) R8 10 Stage ‘n’ Screen (5 m Ace High – Inthespotlight) – Logan Bates (a1.5); found line without much room after drawing wide (11) in the Benchmark 70 1400 metres here on 25 September, with Bates aboard, and contests the $60,000 Benchmark 78 1600 metres. Four wins to 1400 metres, placed at 1600m & 2000m, good record on home course, and ideally drawn (5) to show improvement. NZ TAB fixed odds: $10.00 & $3.10.

Main picture - Stage 'N' Screen winning