Lisa Allpress is back in the stakes-winning groove, steering the Tony Pike-trained Back Of The Bus to victory in Thursday's Listed Ryder Stakes (1200m) at Otaki, less than three weeks after returning from an 18-month injury-enforced absence.
Physique and pedigree didn’t point to Grocer’s Girl emerging as a two-year-old black-type prospect, but stakes success now beckons in her final appearance of the season.
“Everything that is running over the weekend, bar Ashoka and Honey Badger, will improve with the runs, but we’ve got a nice team in and it would be nice to pick up a couple of wins.”
Slipper Island put together a picket fence form line down the Trentham chute last season and he’ll be aiming to pick up where he left off at the Upper Hutt venue on Saturday.
