Wakari, right, holds out I Wish I Win to take out the Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) at Hastings. Awapuni galloper Wakari upset all predictions when he held out hot favourite I Wish I Win to win the Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) at Hastings. “His work has been really good after his last race, although people were putting him down a bit after he got beaten,” he said. “He had good form coming into today and jumped really good,” he said. Before then Wakari will take on his 3-year-old rivals in the Gr.2 Dundeel at Arrowfield Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Hastings on October 2.

Source: Stuff September 19, 2021 00:43 UTC