Sargent has Made My Point, Up Spirits and Vincitore engaged at Cromwell. The trio are in the Riccarton branch of the Sargent stable set up this season with Andrew Carston as foreman. Brian Hibberd rides work for the stable. Sargent has his main stable at Matamata.
"We have nine or 10 horses at Riccarton. It gives horses that have raced in the North Island the chance to win another race or two and also the chance to race in the stakes races," Sargent said.
The stable has won the listed Canterbury Belle Stakes at Riccarton this season with Princess Emmy.
She has been put aside for a spell after feeling the hard ground in the New Zealand One Thousand Guineas.
Vincitore (race 9 tomorrow) has had a win at Motukarara and two seconds since transferring to Riccarton this season.
Up Spirits (race 8) won a 2100m maiden at Washdyke two starts back and he ran fourth behind Our Mona Lisa over 2000m at the New Zealand Cup meeting.
He is racing over 2000m tomorrow and the Michael Pitman-trained Our Mona Lisa is again among his rivals.
Made My Point (race 4) won over 1200m at Pukekohe two starts back on October 27. The Pins gelding did not fire at the New Zealand Cup meeting but there was an excuse.
"He didn't travel that well on the way down to Christchurch and pulled a shoe," Sargent said.
Sargent has been back in New Zealand for seven years after training in Malaysia for five years. He trained initially at Woodville for five years followed by three-year stints at Otaki and Awapuni.
Sargent won the Wellington Cup last January with Red Ruler, who also won the City Of Auckland Cup. He made is mark on South Island tracks with Whey To Go, winner of the 1993 Canterbury Gold Cup at Riccarton.
