NZ HARNESS NEWS
South Auckland co-trainer Gareth Hughes said yesterday that the brilliant six-year-old (23 wins from 33 starts, $746,000) is back jogging and would have a long, slow build-up before going to the workouts.
“She’s come back her usual bright self. She’s happy to be back into it. She’s always had a really good attitude.
“The injury was on her nearside hind leg, opposite to what she previously had. It’s all healed up now and she’s going well.’’
The Orange Agent, who smashed her Australian rivals in May with three straight wins across the Tasman before the injury struck, had to be boxed for three months.
“She handled it good as gold. If she comes up in time for Christmas racing at Auckland that’s what we will be looking at.’’
Promising Sir Lincoln three-year-old gelding Aramis ran fifth at Auckland last Friday night after two months away from the races.
“He went nice. He got held up a little bit behind the leader into the lane and the ones that were off the fence got going and had the momentum.
“It was his first run back from a little break so he should take a bit of improvement from it.
“He’ll probably go to Cambridge next week with (maiden pacer) Miss Keesha.’’
Aramis beat Sunday’s Melton Breeders Crown winner King Of Swing at Auckland on June 23 in a sprint home over 1700m, sizzling over his last 800m in 55.9sec.
Meanwhile, recent Auckland winner Marcy Runkle (3f Mach Three-Pullover Brown) is having two months off to freshen up.
‘’She’s a handy wee filly and has got better with each start so hopefully she can carry it on.’’
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