Offshore focus on Ruakaka
Eyes from around the racing world will be focused on today’s Whangarei meeting with several runners from the Donna Logan and Chris Gibbs yard claiming overseas ties.
First on show will be Romancer, who will make his debut in the Ruakaka Racing Thanks The Volunteers Maiden following a smart trial win at Avondale last month.
The Redwood three-year-old will be ridden by Vinnie Colgan, who will don the colours of the Australianbased OTI Racing.
“Terry Henderson from OTI is coming over to watch Romancer and to inspect anther horse, an unraced one by Postponed,” Logan said.
Their association began with Le Baron, a dual stakes winner in 2008 of the Great Northern Guineas and the Guineas Prelude.
Logan purchased Romancer, who is out of a half-sister to the group one winner Sirmione, for $110,000 at Karaka last year.
“Terry approached me afterwards to see if I would sell them shares and they wanted 50 per cent,” she said.
Meanwhile, the genuine Greencast, who is raced by her Singapore breeder Lena Ang, the Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industryowned Mongolian Sky and Toorak Tower, who is part-owned by Victorian breeder Rosemont Stud, complete the international brigade.