Cashel scored a deserved win for Waiuku trainer Sean Cameron, prevailing by eight lengths in restricted open hurdle company for rider Shaun Phelan.
Adequacy scored his second consecutive steeplechase win at Wingatui when he bolted in by 23 lengths for rider James Seivwright and Riverton trainers Kelvin and Aimee Tyler.
The careers of both horses were at a crossroads when their form tailed off at the end of the jumps season last year.
Now, both could redeem themselves on one of New Zealand's biggest jumping stages, at the Grand National Carnival in Christchurch in August.
"He is only 5 years old, so there is no rush with him," Cameron said of Cashel.
"I might have a look at a maiden steeplechase with him because he has his steeplechasing ticket."
Cashel had signalled he was close to winning form by placings in his previous two hurdling starts.
He was just half a length behind the well-performed pair of Banbury Lad and Jackfrost at Wingatui two starts ago.
"He did deserve a win because he had been going well," Cameron said.
"It was a good ride from Shaun. I told him to take off at the 600m because he hasn't got a lot of pace on the flat and he needs to keep grinding away."
Phelan showed all his poise aboard Cashel. Seivwright fell from Boysway at an early fence and the horse hampered the remaining runners as he continued around the course. (Boysway was found to have bled).
The Tyler stable could bypass the big steeplechases at the Riccarton carnival with the 6yr-old Adequacy
and opt instead for hurdle races.
"I reckon he is too young for a the Grand National Steeplechase," Kelvin Tyler said.
"But, to be honest, the Grand National Hurdles is not out of the question. It is only 4200m, so it could be an option, but we will see what the weather does."
Adequacy is likely to have his next start at next month's jumps meeting at Timaru.
The dry condition of tracks in the South Canterbury and North Otago area could have an effect on that race and Adequacy's Grand National carnival plans, Tyler said.
