Dream By Day, who won the $15,000 Waimate Cup yesterday, has been entered for the South Island Sale in Christchurch on August 7.
The City On A Hill mare is raced on lease by Barry Bunting, Ray Hughes, Keith and Terry Rhodes, Dianne Templeton and Geoff Wilkinson, from Canterbury.
They have the 4yr-old mare on lease from Adrian Clark, marketing manager for New Zealand Bloodstock.
Clark has entered the mare in the sale as a racing and breeding proposition, with a reserve.
Trainer Kevin Hughes has nominated Dream By Day for a race on the first day of the Grand National meeting on August 1.
"She will race for Adrian on that day as the lease expires on July 31," Pam Hughes, wife of the trainer, said last night.
"Adrian has intimated that he would consider giving a proportion of any stake she won to the previous people who leased her," Pam said.
The owners did not want to exercise a right of purchase on the mare as they are more interested in racing a horse rather than breeding.
"If she does not reach the reserve, Adrian intends to keep racing her," Pam said.
Dream By Day was winning her fourth race from 28 starts yesterday.
Rider Ryan Bishop settled her in the rear group and she improved wide to be third on the turn.
Keepitinthefamily, who was close to the pace throughout, led early in the run home, was mastered by Under Parr in the final 50m but he was run down by Dream By Day in the final strides.
Bishop won the Waimate Cup on Gasnier when the race was held at Ashburton last year.
• La Vazza, a daughter of the top performer Covered n' Grey, won a maiden race at her fourth start yesterday.
The Jungle Pocket 4yr-old is raced by Keith Neylon, of Springhills, from the Burnham stable Neill Ridley.
Neylon purchased the mare at the National Yearling Sales when she was offered by Alan Eathorne, who raced Covered n' Grey.
La Vazza is the fifth foal of Covered n' Grey who won 24 races and $342,600 in stakes in the 1990s from the Leithfield stable of Neil Coulbeck.
Neylon met success with Le Alto from the Ridley stable.
The gelding won nine races and $117,000 in stakes.
The Prawn Star broke through for a deserved win in the 3yr-old race which was depleted to three runners.
Scratchings reduced the field to four but Surprise Package dropped rider Brittany Moore on the way to the barrier.
The gelding burst through a fence leading to the stables and was scratched on veterinary advice.
The Prawn Star, having his eighth start, is trained at Ascot Park by Sabin Kirkland who races the gelding with his wife, Clare.
• Rangiora trainer Paul Harris prepared three winners yesterday to give him 50 wins, his best tally for a season.
He won with Princess Nasira, Our Smoothie Girl and The Take.
The Take was recording his second win on end after a fine staying win at Ashburton at his previous start.
He appears to handle wet ground well and should extend his record at the National meeting next month.
• Central districts jockeys Chris Carmine and Ronald Stam have been disqualified after positive drugs tests returned at the Foxton meeting in June.
Carmine, who returned a positive swab to methamphetamine, admitted the charge and was disqualified for eight months to February 14 inclusive.
Stam, who admitted using cannabis, was disqualified for four months to October 14 inclusive.
Sam Spratt was stood down after the first race at Whangarei on Saturday.
Spratt had a swollen face, split lip, grazed chin and several bruises when her mount flipped over on top of her just before being loaded into the gates.
Spratt is 10 wins behind James McDonald on the jockeys' premiership.
