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Sunday, March 27 2022
Progressive Saint Bathans goes back to back

Murray Baker was delighted to see the progress that has been made by promising three-year-old Saint Bathans (Maurice) who took out his second race in a row for the stable when successful over 1400m on a Heavy 10 surface in the opening event at Tauranga on Saturday.

“We were a bit skeptical of the ground on Saturday, but he seemed to handle it pretty well in the end,” Baker said.

“We think he is a promising horse, who still needs to do a fair bit of maturing to fill out his frame as he is a big horse.

“I think in time he will get up to 2000m at least, as his racing style suggests that.

“I think we can probably find a nice mile for him next as there looks to be some suitable races coming up at Te Rapa over the next month or so.

“We are not going to be too ambitious early on and will see how he recovers from this one before we put anything more in concrete for him.”

Saint Bathans, a son of former Japanese Horse of the Year Maurice, did his early racing from the Margaret Falconer stable where he was placed twice from four starts before being transferred to Baker and Forsman earlier this year.

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