Opaki trainer Alby McGregor is all too familiar with success at the Hastings Spring Carnival, and while Awatane (Per Incanto-Miss Sarah by Towkay) may have a little way to go to match the deeds of his $843k earner Fritzy Boy, the 6YO showed with a dazzling turn of foot to overpower his rating 82 opponents on the Livamol Classic undercard that there’s a good deal more to come from the ultra consistent Per Incanto gelding.
Fresh-up since April and without a trial, Awatane’s latest success was his fourth in a 19 start career which has also yielded eight minor placings and accumulated in excess of 100k.
Per Incanto was in the thick of the action at Hastings. Magnum (Per Incanto-Sound Lover by Sound Reason) added more black-type to his impressive career with his third placing in the hotly contested Group 3 Red Badge Sprint while Incantesimo (Per Incanto-Tutuland by Green Desert) looks in for a big summer campaign going by her strong finishing fresh-up third over 1400m.
NZ’s other Saturday meeting may have only lasted two races but it still enabled Nadeem to get another NZ winner. Timaru conditioner Michael Daly who also prepares the exciting stakes performer Don Carlo (Per Incanto-Turf Fire by O’Reilly), lined-up the Nadeem gelding Ivan Kane (Nadeem-Pukalee by Royal Academy) and the lightly raced 4YO was successful over the Riccarton 1400m.
