Hardy mare after special cup double

Durable mare Postmans Daughter will be chasing a unique double this weekend.

The seven-year-old will be striving to win the same Group event on two different tracks when she runs in Saturday’s Chep Pallecon Solutions Counties Cup.

Postmans Daughter beat the well-performed stayer Mr Tipsy in the 2011 feature when it was contested at Group Two level at its regular Pukekohe Park home.

Remedial work at the Counties venue has resulted in this year’s Group Three edition transferring to Avondale.

The multiple Group One placegetter will have to work over-time to achieve the feat as she will be carrying topweight of 59kg and will be backing up from her fifth placing in last Saturday’s Gr.3 New Zealand Cup.

Positive signs from Postmans Daughter since she returned north have encouraged Walker to step her out again.

“She got home on Tuesday lunchtime and I said to Derek (Nolan) during the week she’ll tell you if she’s all right and he said she feels good,” Walker said.

“The massage girl couldn’t find anything wrong with her so she’s pretty well. The weight’s a bit of a problem, but she might as well run.”

Sharp enough to place in the Gr.3 Taranaki Breeders’ Stakes, a race in which she beat I Do last year, Postmans Daughter was then held up in the running when fourth in the Gr.3 Sofitel Luxury Hotels Stakes before she headed south for the cup.

“She just missed the kick and got too far back on that track,” Walker said. “She tries hard, but you need luck in the running and on those sorts of tracks she can’t quicken.”