A handicap race in the middle of winter may seem a strange assignment for one of the forgotten excitement machines of New Zealand racing to resume her career in but Aardie’s Express has simply run out of trial rivals to keep her ticking over.
The winner of eight of her nine career starts has been sidelined since last September but returns off a 30m handicap in tonight’s $15,000 main pace at Addington.
“We detected a small fracture in her cannon bone last year but we were lucky to get it early and she seems fine now,” says co-trainer Steve Telfer.
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