The filly came from the tail of the field at Wingatui to claim major honours in
the ABC Business Sales-sponsored event and provide connections with further
encouragement for a crack at next month's Gr.1 Wellfield New Zealand Oaks.Another Coup was at a three figure quote for the classic, but has now been cut from $101 to $41 for the March 14 feature at Trentham.
Raced and bred by prominent southern thoroughbred identity Ray Coupland and his wife Jill, she is trained at Riccarton by Michael Pitman and his son Matthew and her victory continued rider Lisa Allpress' successful association with the stable.
"Trentham has been the aim for her all the way through," Matthew Pittman said.
"We'll get her home and work out where to go next, but she's always been the right type to get over a bit more ground."
Another Coup had only one runner behind her in the early running and was still off the radar turning for home before Allpress set her alight and they stormed home in the straight to collar Querer by a neck.
"She was impressive and it was a good ride as well," Pitman said.
Another Coup is a daughter of The Oaks Stud's Darci Brahma and she capped a good day for the Cambridge farm's general manager Rick Williams.
He shares in the ownership of the Tauherenikau maiden winner Eyesonyou and the minor juvenile placegetter Honor That.
The rugged qualities of the Barrie and Nicki Blatch-owned and trained Sureasyouwereborn were to the fore in the Listed Fire & Mechanical Dunedin Gold Cup.
Under Robert Hannam, she dragged the field up to the runaway pacemaker Puddle Alley and rallied doggedly in the run home to deny My Chino and the late-finishing Eva Keeneva. – NZ Racing Desk.
