High domestic spring hopes are held for a New Zealand-bred galloper with an impressive overseas racing record.
Racing in Hong Kong as Packing Pins, the 6-year-old won six of his 19 starts for Ricky Yiu and was group placed before joining the Cambridge operation of Trevor and Martin Cruz.
The brothers' mother, Angel, now races the gelding, who has reverted to his original name of Packing Eagle, under which he won three trials for Matamata trainers Ken and Bev Kelso before heading to Hong Kong.
"He was running over a mile in his last few starts there and I think that was too far for him," Trevor Cruz said.
"His owners thought it best to retire him, but he didn't have any injury and we were fortunate enough to get him.