Southern stakes winner Showemup has joined the premiership-winning stable of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman.

Sally McKay is ahead of the game with her stakes winner Showemup, who will open her four-year-old season at Gore on Friday.

Nikita wins 2017 N Z Bloodstock Warstep Stks Listed NZ $500,00 at Riccarton Park (NZ), 2000m.

North Island raider Nikita won the battle in Saturday’s Listed Warstep Stakes at Riccarton but it was Invercargill filly Showemup who won the war as she was crowned New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year.

There was a missed opportunity at the 2013 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Sale at Karaka as one of the passed in yearlings was Charmont, winner of the G1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes at Te Rapa on Saturday.