After being part of the group that kept the Group One status of the New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) on notice, Matthew Goodson may have a horse to help give that race the boost it needs.
Unheralded three-year-old Old Fashioned fired a shot across the bows of his age-group rivals as he produced a quality effort to take out the Gr.2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Hastings on Saturday.
Promising two-year-old Old Fashioned won impressively on debut at Wanganui on Saturday, but trainers Bill Thurlow and Sam O’Malley are resisting the temptation of pressing on to black-type targets for now.
