Armbro Winger has won five races, four of which have been at Forbury Park. He is trained at Westwood Beach by Graeme Anderson and Amber Hoffman. Anderson races Armbro Winger with Trevor Nicolson, of Arrowtown. They bought the horse in June after he had won two months earlier for the Tim Butt and Phil Anderson stable.
Hoffman joined Anderson in partnership to train standardbreds this season after they had co-trained thoroughbreds.
The stable also won yesterday with Nai Sivad, with both horses driven by leading reinsman Dexter Dunn.
Nai Sivad, who finished eighth in his other start, is raced by Invercargill breeder Ian Davis with the Essemdee syndicate and Anderson.
The Essemdee syndicate has been a long-time client of Anderson.
Nai Sivad, the name of his breeder spelt backwards, is a 4yr-old by Washington VC from Commodore Lass. He is a brother to Signor Salvatore, who won first up for the Clark Barron stable in 2004. Signor Salvatore was sold to Australia and has won another seven races.
Perfect For Now extended the record of her dam, Look, when she won yesterday.
Look has left 10 live foals, nine of whom have raced. Her progeny have amassed 59 wins, with Some Direction contributing 25. Perfect For Now (by Sundon) has won five and another sister, Speculate, six.
Other winners out of Look are Astounding (three wins), Now Another Look (six), Total Perception (seven), In Focus (two), Geeky Looking (four), and Take For Granted (one).
Look has been bred from by sisters Helen Pope, Denise Nyhan and Lynn Smith after they inherited the Gekoj-Someday mare from their father, Bill Doyle.
Perfect For Now is raced by Pope and her nephew, Justin Smith, trainer of the 7yr-old mare with his mother, Lynn, at Te Pirata.
"She [Look] is at home retired," Smith said.
Look produced her last foal, a Dream Vacation colt, in 2006. Named See Ya, he is in work.
• Betting at the Oamaru meeting on Sunday: off-course, $913,420 (down $56,661); on-course, $45,037 (down $5089).
