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New Zealand Racing News
Tuesday, June 26 2018

Stephen Marsh’s Cambridge barn will have three representatives at Wednesday’s Rotorua meeting, on what will be a Heavy 11 surface.

Last-start winner and leading Rotorua prospect Sweet Nineteen - Race Images

The trio of three-year-old’s include first-starters Goldilicious and So Wicked, while last-start winner Sweet Nineteen is the stable’s biggest hope, according to stable foreman Rhys Mildon.

The Keeper filly has improved with every run in her four start career and will carry 59kg in the New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Pearl Series Race (1400m).

“As a last-start winner she probably deserves to carry that,” Mildon said. “She got through it well at Te Teko (on the Heavy 10 surface).

“It will probably be a bit heavier tomorrow, but Rotorua is better than most places when it is heavy like that. She’s still maturing, but she’s in good form and doing well.

“Both mentally and physically she’s slowly getting stronger and every time she has a race she switches on even more.”

Earlier in the day, Goldilicious will carry the Rosemont Stud colours in another NZB Insurance Pearl Series Race on the card over 1230m, while Street Cry filly So Wicked will line-up in the Arawa Park Lounges For Your Function (1230m).

“Goldilicious has been given plenty of time to mature,” Mildon said. “It might be a bit too testing for her, but she is a filly with ability and her trial (at Taupo where she finished fourth) was a pretty easy trial, but Stephen does rate her quite a lot.

“So Wicked is a filly of David Paykel’s and she is having her first start as well, she has won two trials in a row, so will head in to tomorrow in good form.”

Sweet Nineteen will likely head to the spelling paddock after Rotorua, while the immediate future of Goldilicious and So Wicked is less certain.

“Sweet Nineteen may go to the paddock and have a little break, just because she has done a big job already,” Mildon said.

“As for the two first starters, it just depends how they go as to whether they continue on or we give them a quick break and look for better tracks.”

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