Be very careful backing sprint sensation Entriviere this weekend.
That is the advice from champion trainer Jamie Richards even before he finds out whether Derby Day is going to be at Ellerslie or Hastings, Sunday or Monday.
Richards has a huge hand in a number of the key races but admits he doesn't greatly see their chances affected by the increasingly less likely move to Hastings on Sunday if Auckland is ruled out by remaining at Covid-19 alert level 3.
"The only one of ours it would directly affect would be Holyhead [race five] because she has run off left-handed and wouldn't start at Hastings, but the rest of them would probably be just as good a chance regardless of where it was," he says.
His best bet of Derby Day is Amarelinha, the filly who would have started favourite in the classic had they not chosen to send her to the Sunline Vase instead, an easier and more logical lead-up to the Oaks at Trentham in two weeks.