The filly at the centre of the great punting plunge stories of last season makes her long-awaited return at Te Rapa tomorrow but trainer Nigel Tiley is warning punters to be a little cautious.
Although Play That Song (R3, No 3) can win the Dunstan Feeds Three-Year-Old, Tiley says she is anything but screwed down.
Play That Song was at the centre of one of the great, yet unsuccessful, punting stories of last season when she was sensationally backed into $1.50 to win the Karaka Million at Ellerslie in January, no small move in one of New Zealand's biggest races.
Much of the move was likely to have come from algorithm robots used for betting on exchanges, which often favour horses, trainers and jockeys with superior strike rates and then drive prices down on Betfair and bookies Australasia-wide follow them.
Heading into the Karaka Million, Play That Song was unbeaten, Tiley's strike rate was lethal and jockey James McDonald had been superb through the Ellerslie carnivals.