Twilight Savings, one of three fillies in the field, has raced once this season for a win in a weight-age 1200m at Rotorua on October 16 with Danielle Johnson the rider. She won three of her five starts at 2.
Bosson rode the filly Katie Lee to win the Two Thousand Guineas 12 months ago. He has also won the race on King's Chapel (2003), Buzz Lightyear (1999) and Danske (1998).
Twilight Savings and another filly, We Can Say It Now, give Cambridge trainers Murray and Bjorn Baker a strong hand. We Can Say It Now impressively won the Sarten Memorial (1400m) at Te Rapa at her last start. Katie Lee won the Sarten last year.
Mark Du Plessis has retained the mount.
Noel Harris has gained the mount on the other filly, Rememba Howe, with Lisa Allpress opting for Barside, whom she rode to win the Wellington Guineas on a heavy track.
Harris won the Two Thousand Guineas on Kingdom Bay (1984) and Hustler (2002).
Chris Johnson, who rode the filly Facing The Music to win in 1993, has the mount on Encosta Diablo, racing in the Te Akau Stables colours of tangerine with royal blue stars.
The colours were carried to win the race by Tell A Tale (2008), Darci Brahma (2005) and King's Chapel (2003) when Mark Walker was trainer for the stable. Encosta Diablo is being tried in blinkers. He won at Ashburton and Riccarton in his first two starts this season, then ran fourth in the Coupland Stakes at Ashburton won by stablemate King's Rose.
Tell A Tale won the Hawke's Bay Guineas the same year, a double Jimmy Choux is striving to complete tomorrow. The TAB has He's Remarkable a $3.50 favourite, a reflection of payouts faced from multi-bets. The winner of two of his three starts, He's Remarkable is trained at Cambridge by Roger James, who won the race with the filly Foxwood in 1997.
Peter McKay, the Matamata trainer who won with his four starters - Undisclosed (Canterbury Stakes), Estrato, Porrello and Santorielli - at Riccarton on October 24, has three of those horses engaged tomorrow. He also has Vincent Mangano (Pegasus Handicap), Thundermore and Marcello engaged.
Vincent Mangano won on the third day of the meeting last year. McKay won the Pegasus with Clifton Prince three years ago.
Bosson renews his association with Soph, the topweight in the Metropolitan Handicap. He has ridden the Kevin Myers-trained mare in six of her 10 wins.
He is also riding San Bernardino, topweight in the Pegasus.
Bosson has been engaged to ride Kerdem in the New Zealand Cup tomorrow week. Kerdem, who ran fifth over 2800m at Flemington on Tuesday, has twice been placed in the Adelaide Cup (3200m). The Rainbow Quest gelding is trained at Plumpton (New South Wales) by Patrick Payne.
