Go Racing ready for onslaught

No More Tears started what could be a Go Racing onslaught next season with an impressive, upset debut win in the $50,000 Equine Stakes at Te Rapa yesterday.

For, while successful Go Racing syndication boss Albert Bosma said No More Tears was too good for stablemates Scarlett’s Secret (10th) and Ruud Not To (11th) he said either filly could have beaten her on a better track.

And, even more incredibly, Bosma said Go Racing has five fillies, and two colts, which he believes are all up to Group class.

‘‘This is not a sales pitch but we have the best batch of rising three-year-olds we’ve ever had.

‘‘Track conditions dictated that this filly (No More Tears) was the best chance today–- she handles cut in the ground – but all three fillies are top class. The other two will go out now.’’

Bosma said trainer Stephen Marsh would look for another race for No More Tears with the Castletown Stakes at Wanganui on May 30 a likely target.

‘‘But she won’t go past that. We want her for the spring.’’

Bosma bought No More Tears for $75,000 at the National Yearling Sale at Karaka, taken by her physique and pedigree. ‘‘She’s very well bred, being a close relation to Hips Don’t Lie and Lake Geneva.’’

The 10-member Go Racing Don’t Cry syndicate comprised 10 people, including the filly’s breeder David Wallace, plus a couple of first-timers, Bosma said, so it was a thrill to win a $50,000 Listed race first time to the races.

Syndicate member Sir Colin Meads is far from a first-timer, though – he had several horses racing yesterday, including Dazzling Lady (9th) in the Equine Stakes – and when asked how many he had in all, he replied: ‘‘Too many.’’

It took Graeme Rogerson a while to wrestle Endor from his wife Debbie but, now that he has, he’s predicting he’ll have a lot of fun with the promising jumper. Endor, who won the opening hurdle race of the season at Te Rapa yesterday in track record time, was once so much a favourite of Debbie Rogerson, she rebuffed advances to jump the horse.

‘‘He was Debbie’s pet – she used him to educate the young ones at her barn,’’ Rogerson said. ‘‘John Wheeler and I wanted to take him to Aussie to jump but she wouldn’t hear of it.’’

Now seven, with Endor ‘‘just a handy horse on the flat’’ Rogey has got his way and, after three learner’s runs last season, the horse is ready to let rip.

‘‘I think he’ll make a really good jumper,’’ Rogerson said after Endor held off a late challenge from Maharishi.

‘‘He’ll be a better steeplechaser because he jumps so well but he’ll have a nice year hurdling before that.’’

Rogerson will test Endor in two weeks in the $50,000 Waikato Hurdles, when rider Richard Cully says he will definitely be even better.