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Filly ready for strong first-up showing

Stolen Night isn’t the finished article yet, but she is forward enough to make her presence felt at Pukekohe Park on Wednesday.

Big Dreamer
Big Dreamer Picture: Trish Dunell

The Keeper filly will resume in the New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Pearl Series Race and trainer Paul Mirabelli is expecting the three-year-old to give a good account of herself.

“She’s quite promising and I’ve rated her from day one, but she’s not quite there yet physically or mentally,” he said.

Stolen Night finished a respectable fifth on debut at Te Teko in January and was then runner-up at Wanganui, after racing three wide without cover, before she was given a break.

She finished second in a recent trail at Cambridge for Samantha Collett, who will take the reins again on Wednesday.

“She can gallop and she’s looking good for the future,” Mirabelli said. “She’s got a tremendous amount of speed, but I’d like to see her take a sit behind them if possible.”

Meanwhile, stablemate and stakes performer Big Dreamer is enjoying a break following a last-start fifth at Trentham.

“She got quite stressed out down there and didn’t eat for a week afterwards,” Mirabelli said.

“She’s in the paddock and we’ll have her back for the spring. She’s got plenty of ability, but she can be quite tricky – she’s a highly strung mare.”

The winner of four races, Big Dreamer ran third in the Gr.3 Thomson Handicap in the spring and she also finished a close fifth in the Gr.1 Captain Cook Stakes.


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