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A PAIR OF FRIDAY RUNNERS

Kowhai (pictured, photo courtesy of Racing Photos) heads to Mornington today and looks ready to run a nice race at his second run back from a break.

Drawn better in barrier 1 than he did when resuming from an outside gate at Seymour, the lightly raced and promising four-year-old got back on that occasion and was finishing off nicely; ending up on the heels of the placegetters in fifth position.

"I thought that run was very good," Michael Moroney reported, adding that "I think she can measure up to this sort of company very quickly."

Thought highly enough of to be tried in stakes company at three, Kowhai is, Moroney said "well placed up in distance having made up a lot of ground first up."

Really catching the eye when secured by the stable at the 2022 New Zealand Ready To Run Sale, Kowhai contests the seventh race, a 2050m BM58 with Connor Murtagh aboard.

It is interesting to see Kowhai shaping as a nice middle distance/staying type considering that he hails from the same family as one of the very best sprinters of all time - the mighty Black Caviar!

This family did however also produced the Caulfield Cup winner Boom Time.

Also running today - in the first at Moonee Valley - is Bancory Bay who Jye McNeil steered home to a smart maiden victory at Bendigo in mid-November.

McNeil again takes the ride in the 2040m BM70 contest with Michael Moroney confident that the up-and-coming three-year-old can measure up.

"He is probably still a preparation away but he is a really nice big horse."

"He has been pretty dumb, quite backward but he doesn't really do anything wrong - he just doesn't really catch the eye when he works, he is a pretty casual bloke!"

"He has got the attitude to make a good horse," Moroney said, noting that the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale graduate bred by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum is the son of "a really good race mare."

That mare being the Gr.1 Flight Stakes winner Oohood, daughter of I Am Invincible from the family of Snippets, Not A Single Doubt, King's Legacy and Forensics.


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