Underrated local mare House Of Cartier made her return to racing in emphatic fashion on Saturday when she stormed home from near last on the home bend to take out the Gr.3 Boehringer Ingelheim Metric Mile (1600m) at Awapuni.
Lightly raced six-year-old Colorado Star got his spring campaign off to the best possible start when he produced a powerful home straight burst to down his open class rivals over 1200m at Awapuni on Saturday.
Trainer Andrew Forsman put aside the disappointment of having to scratch pre-post favourite Francesca from the feature race at Awapuni on Saturday when he and training partner Murray Baker produced talented two-year-old filly Wessex to win on debut at Matamata.
