Kiwi mare Entriviere has rocketed to the head of the market for Australia's newest big race with a stunning win at Kembla Grange yesterday as New Zealand-trained horses continued their brilliant start to spring across the Tasman.
The Jamie Richards-trained mare exploded home from midfield to win the A$200,000 Sheraco Stakes, a Group 2 1200m race for mares moved from Rosehill because of Covid concerns in West Sydney.
She landed some big bets in her first start since April and is now the $4.50 favourite for the A$2 million The Invitation at Randwick on October 23, her main target of the spring and the latest in the string of huge-money races New South Wales has invented to compete with the Victorian spring carnival.
The Invitation was singled out by Richards as the perfect race for Entriviere the day it was announced, and it is so far, so good as she has settled into Sydney and reaffirmed she has the gears to run with the top Aussie sprinting mares.
"She was super and it was exciting to watch, as those big Aussie sprint races tend to be," said Richards, who watched from home at Matamata.