A Group 2 race one of New Zealand’s most in-form stables can’t win at Pukekohe tomorrow may hold as much fascination as the Group 2 race they can.
Both will provide trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood with crucial guides as to whether they can capture the two signature races of Auckland Cup week.
The Cambridge pair have two of the favourites in the $140,000 Avondale Cup tomorrow, with Dionysus and Contemplation in career-best form.
But while the Cup is their prime target tomorrow and they don’t have a runner in the Avondale Guineas, they will watching that three-year-old race almost as intently.
The Guineas is the final lead-up to the $1 million NZ Derby at Te Rapa on March 4, for which James and Wellwood have Prowess as the second favourite and increasingly likely to start in favour of heading straight to Australia.