Cambridge trainer Tony Pike will be enjoying a mid-winter holiday even more after promising juvenile Back Of The Bus showed plenty of courage to head off a swarm of challengers in The Lawn Shed Winter Series – 2YO Final (1200m) on Saturday.
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.
Three months after starting the season as a two-win horse with a rating of 70, Agera stepped on to the big stage at Tauranga on Saturday and became a weight-for-age winner in the Gr.2 Gartshore Construction Tauranga Stakes (1530m).
Agera’s coming-of-age campaign has carried him all the way up to black-type level, flying home to score a last-gasp victory in Friday’s Listed Team Wealleans Matamata Cup (1600m).
