Nucleonic too fast for field

Nucleonic has made her speed known on debut, bolting home to win the $7000 maiden two-year-old 1000 metre race under cloud cover in New Plymouth yesterday.

Drawn seventh in the sevenhorse race on the good3 rated track, the filly by Burgundy wasn’t hindered by the wide draw as she got to the front early, set the pace and proved to be uncatchable at the finish.

‘‘She’s always been very precocious, she’s got a lot of natural gate speed, so her trial was very good and she won very well, didn’t she,’’ co-trainer Jamie Richards said.

‘‘She won her trial by four lengths and there was a bit of hype around the power horse [Dragon] of Mark Forbes’ that was scratched, so she’s done it really well .

‘‘Hopefully she can keep going to the next level from here.’’

The two-year-old out of Richards and Stephen Autridge’s stable won by three quarters of a length from Mighty Power in second, with Lincoln’s Gal in third.

Richards said she would have one more run as a lead into either the stakes race in New Plymouth next year or the Matamata Breeders.

Another horse making a convincing debut on the track was locally trained Mars Bars.

Trained by New Plymouth’s Allan Sharrock, Mars Bars was the talk of the track heading into the $7000 sc maiden 1200m race.

After an okay start, jockey Jonathan Parkes made a move toward the outside at the 600 metre marker and finished strong to win ahead of Prince Oz by half a length.

‘‘She’s a talented filly and we always thought she would win.

‘‘It was comprehensive, the race went well. Parksy pushed off and we got it done well.’’

Sharrock said the next stop for Mars Bars would probably be a special conditions race in Wellington.

‘‘A bit more money on offer there.’’

Fellow New Plymouth trainer John Wheeler scored a double on the day, with Alamacferson winning the $7000 three-year-old maiden 1400m race and outsider Vencedora leading all the way to win the $7000 F&M maiden 1600m.