Not even the big Sydney wet was going to stop Kiwi trainer Andrew Forsman getting the horse he wanted from the yearling sales this week.
And that provided the New Zealand highlight of the Inglis Classic Sale in Sydney.
The weather in New South Wales has been so bad it even caused the A$2 million Inglis Classic, for graduates at all Inglis sales, to be canned at Warwick Farm last Saturday, with the huge money two-year-old event transferred to today's Warwick Farm meeting.
That raises the rather odd situation of one of Australia's richest juvenile races being run at noon (Sydney time) on a Wednesday afternoon in front of a few thousand people, at best.
The quite dramatic breaking of the NSW drought has, most importantly, ended bushfire concerns, but it didn't make yearling shopping much fun at a sale that was surprisingly devoid of major Kiwi buyers.