Moor is making the trip to New Plymouth to ride Ockham's Razor in the $75,000 Two-Year-Old Classic. Trainer Trent Busuttin decided to engage Moor for Star Of Show when Rory Hutchings was not available.
Star Of Show is an acceptor for the rating 85 2000m and the Taranaki Cup (1800m).
Busuttin would prefer to start in the rating 85 but Star Of Show needs a scratching to enter the field. Busuttin said he would have preferred to have retained Hutchings as the rider but the latter is required for Affirmative in the rating 85. Affirmative is trained by Graeme and Debbie Rogerson to whom Hutchings is apprenticed.
Hutchings has been engaged for Bruce Almighty in the Taranaki Cup.
Moor is the replacement for Craig Williams on Ockham's Razor. Williams rode the Anthony Freedman-trained colt to win the $1 million Karaka Million at Ellerslie on January28.
Williams is riding at Flemington on Saturday.
Moor, who rides for the Freedman stable, is ninth on the Victoria country jockeys premiership this season with 36 wins. He will be riding at Bendigo on Sunday.
Star Of Show has won his last three starts at Te Awamutu (1500m), Pukekohe (1600m) and Ruakaka (1600m) with Hutchings the rider.
The Busuttin-trained Sangster took no harm from his race in the Waikato Sprint last Saturday, his first since he won the VRC Derby in October. He is booked to fly to Melbourne on February 26 to begin an Australia campaign in the Australian Guineas at Flemington the following Saturday. Mark Zahra has the Guineas mount.
"I couldn't see him [Sangster] beating Helmet," Busuttin said.
Helmet, winner of six of his 10 starts, won a trial under lights at Cranbourne on Tuesday. He resumes racing in the C S Hayes Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday. He has not raced since finishing eighth in the Cox Plate in October. He won the Caulfield Guineas at his previous start.
• Lisa Whelan marked her return to race riding with wins on Angelology and Snake Gully at Riccarton yesterday. She was sidelined on December 29 when she sustained concussion and broke a finger in a fall at the Timaru meeting.
The 9yr-old Snake Gully is a brother and stablemate of Crocodile Canyon, winner of the Marton Cup two starts back. Crocodile Canyon, who ran seventh in the Wellington Cup, heads the field for the Wairoa Cup Prelude at Wairoa today.
