A week on from a dominant performance at Te Rapa last Saturday, star jockey Opie Bosson returns to the same venue this weekend with another formidable book of rides.
Bosson rode four winners on the nine-race premier programme last week, including the highly impressive age-group performers Sword Of State and Brando. Despite making a late start to the season, he has rapidly risen to ninth on the premiership table with 24 wins from just 93 rides.
"It was a pretty good day there last weekend, I got on some nice horses and they performed really well," Bosson said.
Bosson has six chances to add to that tally on Saturday, starting with the undefeated Elephant in the first race on the card. "I rode him in a trial before that win at Ellerslie and he really impressed me that day," Bosson said. "He's still learning, but he's got heaps of ability. On that last-start run, you'd think he would be hard to beat again this weekend."
Elephant is trained by Emma-Lee and David Browne, who have also booked Bosson to ride Gone West in the Dunstan Feeds Stayers' Championship Qualifier (2100m).