Champion, who trains Presentatie with Kezia Murphy at Ashburton, said the filly looks nothing like the rising talent who has won her two race starts by a combined 9 lengths, including Saturday's 4-length win at Wingatui in the 2 and 3yr-old 1200m.
‘‘You couldn't get a worse track-work galloper,'' Champion said.‘‘You can't get a line on her. You could put a kid on her in track work.''
There are no such things as breeze-ups at the Karaka yearling sales, but perhaps the filly's lazy nature at Karaka failed to convince buyers anyway, as Champion was able to snare her at the 2014 select sale for just $3000 out of the Wentwood Grange draft.
The southern triple crown - the Gore, Dunedin and Southland Guineas - looms as the obvious option for the daughter of the 2014-15 champion first-season sire, Showcasing.
‘‘That's the plan, but we'll see how she pulls up with this. She's got a bit of maturing to do.''
Presentatie is owned by Champion, Murphy and Warren Smith from Ashburton, along with Wayne Kerr and Annette Currey from Timaru.
Timaru trainers Terrill Charles and Peter Corbett are likely to have two runners at next month's Wellington Cup after Eva Keeneva's win in the Otago Cup over 2200m.
The Keeninsky gelding was already well placed at 12th on the order of entry, but stablemate She's Insatiable finished on well in fifth.
‘‘They're both in. We'll go home and put some thoughts together and go from there, but I think on that [result], we'd have to think about it,'' Charles said of the prospects of a trip north.
Corbett had told veteran Christchurch jockey Terry Moseley before the race that their wall lacked a photo of Moseley, so he went out and rectified that.‘‘It's been a consistent little horse and probably deserved a good race,'' Moseley said.
‘‘It's probably never really gone a bad race. I rode it early on when it was about a 75 rating, and it's kept putting its foot in the till.''
Eva Keeneva has had just one look at the 3200m journey he will face in the Wellington Cup, finishing 10th in November's New Zealand Cup after getting well back.
Moseley thinks the extreme staying distance will not be a problem for the 7yr-old.
‘‘He goes to sleep. He carries his head a little bit like a bulldozer, but he does carry himself well and can stay.''
The Balcairn training duo of John and Karen Parsons were in top form at Wingatui, preparing Alyth, Tomm Jones and Locket for wins on the eight-race card.
