KEY POINTS:
You can't beat group one form going into a group one race and Fritzy Boy has that base covered.
The luckless horse of the last two legs of the Hastings spring treble, looks a great chance in the $200,000 Captain Cook Stakes at Trentham.
You can't get better than winning the first Hastings leg, overcoming a wide draw for third to Princess Coup in the middle leg then running on gamely to be only three lengths off Princess Coup in the $2 million Kelt Capital Stakes.
The bonus is that Fritzy Boy has only once been beaten in five starts on slow and heavy surfaces.
All of that is a powerful combination for 1600m in the wet at Trentham. This might be a handy field, but there are no Princess Coup's engaged.
Evergreen Bulginbaah is the obvious danger.
He turned in one of the best beaten performances of the Hastings carnival when third to Mufhasa in a fast time.
Rios could be the surprise. He won the Wellington Guineas on this day last year and his run for seventh in the Kelt Stakes had merit.
The track that day was very firm and Rios will better appreciate a damper surface tomorrow.
