Trainer Stephen McKee is on a mission with class mare Boundless.
And it starts with the open sprint at Ruakaka tomorrow.
Boundless has not run since she finished well back in the Melbourne Cup last November.
Her big mission this spring is the Kelt Capital Stakes at Hastings, but McKeeis concerned he won't get the mare into the field despite her remarkable record.
"They've changed the qualifying conditions and she needs to win or be placed in a group race to make sure she gets in the Kelt," he said last night.
"There aren't that many opportunities to do that."
McKee even has a contingency plan: a one-race hit in Sydney if opportunities at home do not fit with his Kelt plans.
"I've got a race sorted out and we can be there and back in a few days.
"The two trips she's made to Australia have meant five weeks in quarantine because of the EI, but she'll fly through a trip now there's no quarantine time."
The last time Boundless resumed from a spell was at Tauranga last August 30. It was her first run since her close and desperately unlucky second in the AJC Oaks the previous autumn and she won before finishing fifth in a listed 1600m event at Pukekohe and a terrific fourth in the Kelt.
"Because she went out in November she came back into work on April 1, so she's had four months in work.
"She hasn't had a barrier trial, but she's done plenty on the track and galloped really well with Masquerade on Saturday morning."
Class goes a long way and Boundless and Richard Beymer are worth plenty of attention tomorrow.
