Hawera tips and results

Our price $8.00 · SP $23.00 · Sarah Macnab

Brilliant Deejay is the form improver. His Te Aroha third over today's trip on heavy, under 65kg, was a far better performance than anything else these maidens have produced lately, and he meets Soft 7 with a 6.5kg pull in the weights. Each-way covers the variance.

Our price $7.50 · SP $8.50 · Elen Nicholas

Super Patch maps as the lone leader in a race the speed map has as slow, which is the right shape for a provincial maiden mile. He has already run third at Hawera on heavy and third at Te Rapa after leading all the way. He has not tried soft ground and he did tire when on the pace at Te Aroha, while the rider is still winless at the track. Those limits keep him third, with an each-way stake rather than a win-only play.

Our price $5.00 · SP $13.00 · Sarah Macnab

Reconvene is the form horse in a slowly run mile. He has won and placed at Hawera over this trip, both times with Sarah Macnab.

Our price $6.50 · SP $6.00 · Wiremu Pinn

Wonderboy maps as the only leader and a slow mile asks him to control the race and still quicken, which his on-pace record supports. Soft 7 should ride kinder.

Our price $9.00 · SP $15.00 · Kelly Myers

On Shaw is the third chance because the last start flatters him once the weight is allowed for. He meets 57.5kg here and has already won a mile on Soft 7. Kelly Myers rides only him and is striking at 30 percent.

Our price $11.00 · SP $27.00 · Tom Wigram

Tom Wigram jumps on at 55.5kg. The catches are real: he has never won on soft from 11 starts, he is a backmarker in a race that should be run slowly, and the stable is cold.

Our price $7.00 · SP $7.00 · Kelly Myers

Too Sweet brings the right rider and a fitness edge, being second-up after a heavy-track third at Trentham a fortnight ago. Her summer form in three-year-old company, including a strong soft-track fourth at Trentham, says she can win a BM65 when she gets a clean run.

Our price $8.50 · SP $14.00 · Toni Davies

Intention is a class mare resuming for her second run back, a profile that already includes a win and a third. Her last start, a soft-track fourth in three-year-old company, was a performance good enough for this BM65, and she has placed twice from four soft starts including a 1200m stakes third.

Our price $11.00 · SP $14.00 · Mereana Hudson

Aliyana Belle is the overlay. She has already won a BM65 at Hawera over 1200m and her last two heavy-track runs, a fifth at Waverley and a seventh at Hastings, were honest efforts at today's level. She gets in with 55kg and maps handy, which helps if the two leaders go hard.

Our price $7.50 · SP $9.50 · Elen Nicholas

Country Salon returns first-up for a stable that is winning, and he has already won fresh. Before the break he won over 1400m on heavy and ran a close second on soft, so today's Soft 7 suits. He meets a deeper field after 162 days off and his rider is quiet, which is why he sits third rather than on top.

Our price $9.50 · SP $11.00 · Floor Moerman

Florin is the value. She has been placing in this grade and in stronger company on rain-affected tracks, including a 1400m second and a third after being slowly away and wide.

Our price $7.20 · SP $3.70 · Samantha Collett

Circus Dancer is the on-pace filly most likely to track Qali Al Farrasha. She has won all three heavy starts, including at 1400m, and she won when second-up. Soft 7 is near the ground she loves, though she is still 0 from 3 on genuine soft.

Our price $9.00 · SP $8.50 · Kelly Myers

Honey Badger is the overlay. She lives on heavy ground, with five wins and eight minor placings from sixteen starts, and three weeks ago she ran third in the same Hastings race Girl Talk finished second in. Soft 7 is close to that ground, so the blank soft record from only three starts is a light knock.

Our price $5.50 · SP $8.50 · Sam McNab

Sunset Boulevard is the form pick in an open 2100m on Soft 7. He has already won at the trip in open company and his soft record is three wins from 12. Malachy is shorter because of three 2100m wins, but those were in lesser races and he maps as a backmarker where Hawera stayers from the rear rarely win.

Our price $9.50 · SP $26.00 · Wiremu Pinn

Coney Island has been the most reliable wet horse in the lower grades, with seconds at 1800m, 2000m and 2100m and a close fourth in a heavy 2100m last start. Those runs were strong enough to suggest he can handle the rise, and barrier 2 lets him sit on the pace.

Our price $5.50 · SP $7.00 · Toni Davies

Leprekhan is the horse best suited to a slow 2100m at Hawera. She has already won this course and distance on rain-affected ground, places when she races handy, and gets in with 56kg.

Our price $6.50 · SP $8.50 · Sarah Macnab

Come To Terms has the wet-track and Hawera 2100m record the race is crying out for, with a win and two seconds from five tries at the track and trip and a soft record of one win and two placings from six. She was a close third in this grade last start and drops to 54kg. The risk is the map: she settles back and a slow pace makes that harder. Each-way covers a horse who places more often than she wins.

Our price $13.00 · SP $23.00 · Kelly Myers

He is the only natural leader, Kelly Myers is riding in peak form, and last start on heavy at Te Aroha he took the race along and ran right up to a winning standard before finishing fifth. Grass form is the hole: one win from 31 starts, and that win was on synthetic, with a blank record on soft and heavy.