Wolverine is a Group Winning and Place mare on both sides of the Tasman.
She comes from the same Waikato Stud family as Prince Kaapstad, Ocean Park, Grunt and others. So still a mare with a decent residual value.
I can only use what information I was given after my boy ran on Saturday , he's a big horse with a large stride and struggled on it from the start on what was described afterwards as a shifty track .
There's a few different types of heavy ground. She never handled that at all and it would be foolish to judge her on that run.
I reckon Roydon will get some wins out of her. I would say they'll be looking at spring races for her.
I also note that the Te Akau syndicate are still listed as owners.
Exactly my thoughts watching the last couple of races , as much as the discussion around tracks is about the substructure and root depth , running numerous meetings at one track over a shortish period without proper recovery time is far worse in my book , when you look at Waverley and Trentham and the number of meetings they have had to carry , you have to think that the lack of repair time is far worse for a track than if they were given a decent amount of time between meetings . And the more meetings the harder for a surface to recuperate without a substantial break .
Thankfully they don't have any meetings programmed for a while but who knows when either of these tracks will be called into duty at short notice again .
Those involved will be holding their collective breaths for Awapuni and Wanganui this week .
57 multi's , Sunline would self implode at the thought , geez how much money you risked on that last horse , should have cashed out after the first , safety first .
I don't have the exact fact of how much rain we got, but it was heavy for about 3 hours, and the rest was mostly strong winds. Some places flooded, some didn't even look damp, but I think the heavy downpours weren't widespread.
As a matter of interest does anyone know just how much rain Ellerslie got leading up to Saturday? Family at Pakuranga reported plenty of wind but not a huge amount of rain. From Wednesday to Saturday morning I recorded just over 200 mls in Whangarei.
Previously place one from two on heavy and much tougher opposition than today. As I've said previously she may get a better track in the next little while but not a lot available for a mare of her calibre going into winter.
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