Cambridge Stud have secured the majority share in unbeaten Wakefield Challenge Stakes winner Not An Option.

Queensland jockey Damian Browne will be seeking a second Group I win in New Zealand at Ellerslie on Saturday, 16 years after his first.

The fact that 19% of all Group One winners in Australia over the past five seasons have first and/or second dams that carry the NZ suffix comes as no surprise to breeders, trainers and owners eager to tap into New Zealand’s matriarchal strength.

Second chances don’t come along very often and Tony Pike turned his into a Group One victory with Chenille at Ellerslie on Thursday.

Divine intervention has kept Cambridge trainer Tony Pike’s Gr.1 Auckland Cup dream alive.