Trainer Stephen Marsh's feature race season has hit a judder bar in tomorrow's Waikato Cup, just as it starts to build momentum.
Marsh trained a treble at Ellerslie last Saturday to leap to a clear second on the national trainers' premiership with 29 wins, a huge effort after a muddling start to the term.
"It was a bit slow at the start of the season but to get a treble at headquarters [Ellerslie] is always a buzz," says Marsh.
"The season could have worked out so differently so far, we were just a short margin away from winning both the 2000 Guineas and New Zealand Cup which would have been great results but we have some really nice horses to go on with."
Among those is in-form mare Yatima, who has won two of the last three and has been consistently hitting the line like tomorrow's 2400m will suit her.