Injury-plagued mare ready to rumble
REMINISCE hasn’t had the best of luck throughout its young career, but connections are confident the four-year-old can return to its best form this week.
The Oaks Stud-raced mare hasn’t run since finishing third in the Sires’ Produce which followed a quality win at Trentham in March 2015.
“She went out after the Sires’ Produce and when she came back for the spring she fractured her cannon bone and we got everything right with that before she got a stress fracture of her tibia,” said Rick Williams, racing manager for the Cambridge farm’s owner Dick Karreman.
“We’ve finally got her back again and she’s had a long, slow build-up with Lisa Anderson and she’s been back with Graeme and Debbie for a month.
“She looks very well and she’s a powerful beast. She’s a massive talent and I know that if she comes back to form we’re going to have a lot of fun with her – she’s ready to rumble.”
The Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained daughter of Roc De Cambes is nominated for The Kirton Sprint at Taupo on Friday and the decision to race will be made on race morning.
“It’s looking like a Good 2 track there at the moment and we wouldn’t be keen on running her on a really hard track,” Williams said.
“She’s also in at Hawke’s Bay on New Year’s Day and they are irrigating the track there.”