A comfortable trial performance at Te Awamutu last month could provide punters with the best guide to a winner at the rescheduled Waipa Racing Club meeting today.
Heavy rain and surface flooding caused the postponement of the meeting last Friday. Conditions have improved but the surface will be heavy. That suits Te Aroha trainer Peter Lock for his progressive three-year-old Dougie who steps out in the last race on the programme.
Successful in one of his three starts, the Keeper gelding has been kept on ice by Lock as he waited for the tracks to soften.
"He showed us plenty when he won on his home track back in September last year," he noted. "We had big plans for him including a possible Derby campaign but he really felt the ground when he ran down the track at Ellerslie in December.
"That put a halt to those summer plans so we put him aside to wait until we got more suitable ground for him."
