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<\/p>\nStephen Marsh can make a strong case for each of his top-flight contenders at Trentham on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Cambridge trainer will be represented by the in-form trio of Ardalio, Tardelli and To Cap It All in the Gr.1 TAB Telegraph (1200m), a race he won in 2024 with Mercurial.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are really difficult to split, Ardalio is a proven, sharp sprinter but with a sticky draw (11), while blinkers will go on Tardelli and he\u2019s a very good colt,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo Cap It All is the up and comer with a good gate (5) and she hasn\u2019t had a lot of luck of late,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n
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Ardrossan\u2019s daughter Ardalio has won four of her eight starts, including a most recent victory in the Gr.3 Counties Bowl (1100m) and has since been kept ticking over with a quiet trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a high-quality mare and put a very good field away last time out, she\u2019s going super,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n
Tardelli has been brought back in distance to give the son of I Am Invincible every chance to boost his future stallion value.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the start of the campaign, we thought he was a miler but we\u2019ve changed tack and think he\u2019s a better 1200-1400m horse,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we have identified the Telegraph, it\u2019s aways been a hard 1200m so this could be his race. Eight isn\u2019t a bad draw for him and gives him a bit of room to move.\u201d<\/p>\n
To Cap It All has finished runner-up in three of her last four appearances and the Capitalist filly is also proven on the course, having won last season\u2019s Listed Wellesley Stakes (1100m) on debut.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s got the draw to get a smother and obviously likes the chute,\u201d Marsh said. \u201cShe\u2019s got a great turn of foot, and if she can be ridden a little bit conservatively then I think she can be right in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the stable\u2019s stakes runners at Ellerslie on New Year\u2019s Day, Gr.2 Rich Hill Stud Mile (1600m) candidate Queen Zou is expected to be their best chance of success.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll her runs this time in have been really good and she gets in with 53kg,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a full field and you can make a case for the majority of them, but our girl is going great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nest Egg hasn\u2019t troubled the scorer for a while, but there was enough in his last effort to suggest he could be a hope at longer odds to turn his fortunes around in the Gr.3 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2400m).<\/p>\n
The seven-year-old most recently finished sixth in the Gr.3 Waikato Cup (2400m).<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was pretty good and he may be getting a bit long in the tooth, but he\u2019s certainly not out of it,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ace High filly Savina will relish a rise in distance when she tackles the Gr.2 Sir Patrick Hogan Stakes (2000m).<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has had no luck at all and the step up in trip is perfect for her. It will test a few of those other fillies getting up over a bit of ground for the first time,\u201d Marsh said. \u2013 LOVERACING.NZ News Desk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Marsh can make a strong case for each of his top-flight contenders at Trentham on Saturday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-210687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}