Walsh rode 13 winners on the West Coast New Year circuit culminating in six wins at the Greymouth meeting last Saturday.
The Paul Harris-trained Napatap won the Welcome Stakes at the New Zealand Cup meeting in November and a race at Riccarton on December 16 in his last two starts.
He was ridden in those races by Jason Waddell and Matthew Cameron. Waddell has the mount on Hogwarts Express and Cameron is engaged for Irish Rebel in the Wakefield.
• Brisbane jockey Jim Byrne is set to renew his association with Atapi in the $300,000 Telegraph Handicap on Saturday.
Byrne (40) rode Atapi to win listed 1200m and 1600m races at Eagle Farm and a 1200m race on the Gold Coast in 2007 and 2008.
The Richard Otto-trained Atapi, now a 10yr-old, has not raced since finishing fourth in the Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie on December 3 at his second start for the season.
Noel Harris has been engaged to ride Final Touch (Anniversary Handicap) and O'Cartier (Telegraph).
Kylie Williams, who rode Final Touch to win the Hazlett Stakes-Timaru Cup double last month, is at Gore on Saturday.
Final Touch has been based at Ohau with co-trainer Karen Parsons, along with O'Cartier, Asavant and Santos.
• Diamond Days, the 3yr-old filly who cleared maiden ranks at Ruakaka yesterday after placings in her other two starts, was a $1250 weanling purchase by Simon Englebrecht, of Stoneburn (East Otago).
Englebrecht bought Diamond Days at the New Zealand Bloodstock sale at Karaka in May, 2009 on the advice of trainers Peter Williams and Royce Dowling.
Peter and Dawn Williams train Diamond Days at Karaka.
"Peter [then at Riccarton] and I went to the weanling sale and Peter liked the filly as she was out of a Woodman mare.
Royce Dowling was familiar with her great granddam, Diamond Shower," Englebrecht recalled.
He took his father, Walter Englebrecht, of Waimate; and friends Jim Poulter, of Rangiora, and Simon Cox, of Invercargill, into partnership to race Diamond Days.
"Simon [Cox] was keen to enter the ownership as his father, Syd, and my father had raced horses,"
Walter Englebrecht is in Christchurch Hospital after undergoing surgery. He raced Fieldmaster, winner of the 1965 New Zealand Cup when trained at Washdyke by Barry Jones.
Simon Englebrecht raced Our Estrella, a winner at Riccarton in 2005 when trained at Wingatui by Megan Prendergast, now (Brick) in a marketing role with the Otago Racing Club.
Diamond Days is by Viking Ruler, the sire of Red Ruler and Court Ruler (Queensland Derby).
She is the third foal of Laurel, a winner over 1400m and the dam of Collecting, who has won over 2200m in Australia. Laurel is out of Diamond Cluster by Sir Tristram from Diamond Shower, winner of the 1986 VRC Oaks and AJC Sires' Produce Stakes.
• Grant Cooksley made the most of a chance mount to ride two winners from three rides at Ruakaka yesterday.
Cooksley (52), who restricts his race riding mainly to horses he rides in work, won on He's Rock `N' Roll and Manhattan Mam.
He finished fourth on his other mount, Final Fling.
He became available to ride Manhattan Mam when his declared ride, Makers Mark, was scratched.
Cooksley who has ridden some 942 winners in New Zealand, was back on the track where he rode his first winner, Rasa Sayang, in September, 1979. Cooksley began race riding the previous month.
• Sell In May and Ockham's Razor, candidates for the Karaka Million at Ellerslie on January 29 are scheduled to arrive in New Zealand from Australia on Saturday.
Sell In May, trained by John Sadler, is the leading qualifier with $56,172 in stakes. She won $A70,000 race for fillies at Flemington on December 10.
Ben Melham has the mount. Stephen Baster rode Sell In May in her win.
The top 14 2yr-olds on stake earnings qualify for entry in the Karaka Million, the New Zealand Bloodstock incentive race for graduates of the National Yearling Sale.
Ockham's Razor, trained by Anthony Freedman, finished second to Sweet Little Lies at Caulfield this month in his only start. He earned $16,575 and he is fifth among the qualifiers.
Australian Sister Havana won the Karaka Million in 2010.
