Comanche Gold, who completed a double for the Grand National meeting on Saturday, will be rested for a few days while his Riverton trainers Graham and Michael Eade consider his programme.
"We could take him to the North Island but it is just a matter of finding a suitable race," Graham Eade, his co-trainer and co-owner, said.
Comanche Gold has won four of his last five starts including a maiden win at Riverton in April. He began racing in March and has raced eight times.
The Hawkeye-Treadgold 4yr-old won a rating 75 1600m race on the first day of the National and stepped up to a rating 90 over the same distance on Saturday. He made the pace both times with Jamie Bates the rider.
His two wins netted $32,813.
Comanche Gold is trained by Graham and his son, Michael. He is raced by Graham and his wife, Pat, on lease from breeder Phillip Jeffreys, of Palmerston North. The Eades have leased other horses from Jeffreys including Tuscany Rose, the winner of five races.
• Lisa Whelan, who rode three winners at Riccarton on Saturday, will transfer her apprenticeship to Kevin Myers at Wanganui. She has been on loan to Myers during the winter from the Invercargill stable of Ben and Sally Gordon. Whelan rode three Myers-trained horses to win on Saturday - Excuseable, Stupendous and Warrant.
Whelan (25) took her tally of wins to 25 since she began riding as an apprentice 11 months ago.
• Ishiabeel had her second worthwhile win at Riccarton when she prevailed in the $40,000 Winter Classic. She had also won the Warstep Stakes for owners Wayne Chui, of Queenstown, and Kennic Lui, of Hong Kong, who operates as Bradbury Bloodstock Ltd.
• Relampago, who was retired at the 500m in the hurdles at Riccarton on Saturday, was found to have a laceration to his mouth. He will now be spelled.
Royal Flight lost a plate from a foreleg during race 4.
• Denise Ward, whose property sustained damage in the Christchurch earthquakes, had a change of fortune when her horse, Moonlighting, won on Saturday.
Moonlighting, who was bred by Ward, had his first win over hurdles at his seventh start in that role. He is trained at Foxton by Christine Eagle.
• Mark Sweeney was suspended until midnight on August 27 when he admitted careless riding at Te Rapa on Saturday. Sweeney allowed his mount, Fleur De Lune, to shift in near the 900m, checking Rusty Devil. Dollario and Bulginbaah were hampered.
Bulginbaah pulled up lame in his left foreleg.
