"I'm really happy with her and she goes into the race in good order," James said.
Zabeel 6-year-old mare Zonza resumes in the Windsor Park Plate, coming off a trial win over multiple group one winner Sangster.
"Her trial was really good and her work since has been solid. From barrier one, I'd expect her to trail and we'll see what she can do from there," James said.
"If she can get a group one placing, it will increase her value as a broodmare and if she can win it, she's in elite company. No group one race is easy but she's in the fight."
Zonza, who has been served by Waikato Stud stallion Pins, could earn a trip to Australia with a bold performance today..
James was happy with his Gold Trail pair, with the former Richard Collett-trained Fully Fledged filly Shees Flawless having her first start for the stable from barrier four and Thewayyouare filly Readywhenyouare resuming from outside barrier 12. "Shees Flawless's work on Tuesday morning was very good and from her draw I put her right in the end picture," James said.
"Readywhenyouare is quite a robust filly and she's going to get back from that draw, but she should be finishing the race off strongly." You're kidding, rain is going to hold all the trump racing cards again today.
Talk to those in the Hawkes Bay and they'll tell you the signs are that rain is probably not likely to eventuate for today's magnificent Windsor Park Plate day.
Let's hope they're right.
Assuming they are, perhaps Ginner Hart in the last, Race 9, is a good prospect.
Alexander Fields has done a magnificent job of producing Ginner Hart at this meeting - the record of four from four fresh runs tells a big story and so does four wins from five starts at Hastings. Significant rain might change things.
Feel The Love (No4, R1) looks a good prospect. She won with a fair bit of command on the first day of the carnival and looks a mare likely to go through the grades. There was plenty to like about the way she went to the line last start. Wills Road (No5) won a recent trial. The possibility of rain makes I Do (No7, R8) an even better prospect in the big race.
She knows no way other than to find the line hard and if it rains she will not be troubled.
Addictive Habit (No1, R6) is a horse on the way up and despite the 59kg topweight he is going to be tough to beat. He is strong, looks like a weight-carrier, and his ability will make him tough to beat. He has a bit of class on this field.
At Counties, Tiger Moss (No9, R6) probably didn't appreciate the footing last start and is smart enough to produce something better.
The ignominy of being suspended for causing his own fall might turn out to be nothing compared to the pain Jason Collett could feel at the business-end of the Sydney carnival.
Collett's Epsom Handicap day book of rides was full of group one promise until he was banned for 10 meetings after coming to grief in the last race at the two-day Newcastle Gold Cup carnival.
In the race before, the New Zealand-born jockey celebrated one of his biggest wins when he rode Disclaimer to victory in the cup.
The suspension will cost him the chance to keep an association with Disclaimer in the group one Metropolitan. And in all likelihood the ride on Chris Waller's top filly Winx in the group one Flight Stakes has also gone begging.
Then there's all the manoeuvring behind the scenes to position himself for the Epsom Handicap and the first Sydney two-year-old races of the season.
Losing the ride on Winx could hurt most of all as Collett chases a group one breakthrough.
Winx is favourite to make it back-to-back black type wins in the Tea Rose Stakes at Randwick today.
"If things go well in the Tea Rose then you'd think I would have stayed on her," Collett said.
He will finish his suspension in time to return to riding at the Spring Champion Stakes meeting at Randwick on October 11.
New Zealand trainer Donna Logan has been fined $500 with treatment records for stable star Rising Romance showing the mare had received an alkalising agent too close to the Tramway Stakes.
Rising Romance finished fourth in the group two race won by Lucia Valentina and the pair meet again in today's George Main Stakes. Logan pleaded guilty to negligence in that she failed to instruct her stable representative of the rules regarding alkalising agents.
The Australian rule is that such treatments are not to be given within one clear day of a horse racing.
The records showed Rising Romance received the treatment on the Friday morning before her race on Saturday.
Stewards said the offence was at the low end of the scale.Additional reporting AAP
