A winter night at Cambridge is rarely the first step to a New Zealand Cup start, but one of the best trainers in the country thinks that unlikely journey could begin tonight.
Premiership winner Steve Telfer is sure Fernleigh Cash has what it takes to get to open class, maybe even the great race at Addington in November, and says if not for injury the
big gelding wouldn’t even be at Cambridge tonight.
Fernleigh Cash has won five of his 13 starts and was second in the NZB Pace at Kaikoura in October, a race that usually throws up Cup horses.
“He got injured shortly after and we decided to give him two months off, which why he has come back now,” says Telfer. “He has always been a pretty good horse but he has grown into his frame now and I think we will see a better, stronger horse.