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“I gave his first-up run a pass mark, but I really wanted to see a performance like this from him today. Very happy with that, and now we’ll go home and have a think about what we do next.”

“Safely through this, he will go to the innovation race during National Week, as I’d imagine most of these will.”  

“They’re both lightly tried, promising horses and super consistent, so it was nice to see them fight out the finish.”

A pair of rising stars of the South Island’s thoroughbred ranks faced their toughest test so far in the Craigmore Sustainable Holdings Timaru Heritage Cup (1600m) on Thursday, and they rose to the occasion and fought out a thrilling finish.