After one of the most prolific days of his training career, Mark Walker is about to turn juggler.
And if he gets it right he could win both domestic group 1 juvenile races in the next five weeks and leave himself with a star filly with whom to target the spring.
Walker won six races between his home track of Matamata and Otaki, extending one of the biggest leads in the history of the New Zealand trainer’s premiership. Most importantly he won both the $120,000 J Swap Breeders Stakes with juvenile filly Zourion and the $85,000 Fairview Matamata Slipper with the unbeaten Tokyo Tycoon, quinellaing the latter with Trobriand.
Tokyo Tycoon gave South African jockey Craig Zackey a feature race win before he leaves for his homeland this Wednesday, hoping to return to ride here again next year,
Walker’s huge day not only gives him a lot of equine firepower for the remaining features of the season but options of what targets to aim them at and while those decisions aren’t set in stone, Walker says he has a plan.