"She's happy and doing well and she's actually put on weight, which is good."
The Rotorua Stakes is run under weight-for-age conditions over 1400m and Miss Wilson will try to add another black type success to her impressive record.
However Bary has warned that she will only start if track conditions are suitable because she performs best on reasonably firm footing.
Miss Wilson is the winner of seven races from only 25 starts and has also been twice successful at Group 3 level, in the Cuddle Stakes (1600m) at Trentham and the Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings.
She is a half-sister to Jimmy Choux, who Bary trained to win 12 races including five at Group 1 level.
Both horses are out of the Centaine mare Cierzo and were bred by Havelock North couple Richard and Liz Wood.
Strong local presence
Hastings stables will be strongly represented at their local meeting tomorrow with last start winners Scandalo and Londaro lining up again along with the in-form pair of Lady Guinness and Kaipawe.
Scandalo was impressive when taking out a Rating 85 race over 1400m on the Hastings track a fortnight ago and, although he now has to step up to open company, the way he worked this week suggests he is ready for another big performance.
The Shocking 5-year-old sprinted 600m on the plough at the Hastings track on Tuesday in 37.1s and looked keen to go faster.
Trainer Patrick Campbell would have liked to have claimed with an apprentice allowance with Scandalo tomorrow but, being the main event on the programme, it is a non-claiming race so he has engaged top South Island jockey Chris Johnson.
Scandalo has been a revelation since joining Campbell's stable, winning six races in the space of only 14 starts. Three of those wins have been on his home track at Hastings.
Scandalo is one of two horses Campbell will line up at the meeting, the other being Lady Guinness in the Rating 85 race over 1600m.
The Falkirk mare won the Poverty Bay Cup (1600m) four starts back and has since been tried three times over a middle distance for two fourths and a last start 10th.
She reverts to a more suitable distance tomorrow and will also have the services of top jockey Chris Johnson. Four of her five victories have been on her home track.
Londaro was another impressive winner at the last Hawke's Bay meeting when he had to do plenty of work in the running, from a wide draw, yet still stuck on gamely to get a nose decision in a Rating 65 race over 1600m.
The big Lope de Vega 4-year-old, trained by Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen, was recording his second victory after also winning a maiden race over 1600m at Hastings in October last year.
Londaro showed he has trained on the right way since his last start performance by turning in a strong solo 1000m gallop at Tuesday's Hastings track session. He worked up against the inside running rail, which was 4m out, and was timed to run 1000m in 1:3.9, quickening all the time to run the last 600 in 35.2.
He has to step up to Rating 75 grade tomorrow, and drop back in distance to 1400m, but should still be very competitive.
Kaipawe has not been the easiest horse to train but the husband and wife team of Mick Brown and Sue Thompson seem to have straightened her out. The Prince Conti 4-year-old led all the way when winning over 1600m at Hastings two starts back and followed that up with a close fourth over 1560m at Rotorua.
Kaipawe will step up to a middle distance for the first time tomorrow when she lines up in the Rating 75 race over 2100m. The race has only drawn a small field and, if she can be rated in front without over-racing, she could prove hard to run down.
Both of her two wins have come on her home track at Hastings.
HB races free entry
There will be free admission to the course and the members stand for racegoers attending tomorrow's Hawke's Bay meeting at Hastings.
Gates will open at 11am and there will be an eight race programme, the first timed for 12.25pm and the last at 4.32pm. There will also be children's entertainment on course.
The main races will be a $30,000 open sprint over 1400m and a $30,000 Rating 85 race over 1600m.
Johnson back over jumps
Chris Johnson is planning to make a brief comeback over fences in a bid to improve his prospects of winning another New Zealand Jockeys' Premiership.
The gifted horseman rode Delacroix into 10th placed in a Rating 75 race over 2200m at Wingatui on Tuesday and will now ride the 8-year-old in the open hurdle at Riverton on May 20.
"It'll be a one-off ride to qualify him for highweights," said Johnson's partner, Belinda Middlewood.
"John and Karen Parsons wanted him to ride Delacroix in last year's Grand National, but he wasn't keen at that stage."
Under the New Zealand rules of racing jockeys are only eligible to ride in highweights if they have ridden in a steeplechase or hurdle race in the period from January 1 the previous year.
In Johnson's case he hasn't competed in a jumps race for almost six years, since he rode the Jeff Lynds-trained Conquistador when he was pulled up in the Great Northern Hurdles in September 2012.
Four days earlier he recorded his last jumps win aboard Silk 'N' Satin for John Sargent at a Wingatui meeting.
Johnson is an accomplished hurdles jockey, having 55 wins from 260 rides, though he has competed in just one steeplechase in which his mount fell.
Johnson has kicked home almost 2300 winners in New Zealand and the 54-year-old picked up his second New Zealand Jockeys' Premiership last season, 21 years after he first won it in 1995-96.
He sits in third place on the premiership behind Samantha Collett and her cousin Alysha Collett.
Bowman heads to Japan
Australia's Hugh Bowman, rated the best jockey in the world, was on a flight to Japan this week to start another riding stint in that country but plans to return for the Queensland winter carnival before the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1350m).
Bowman, who has had a number of stints previously in Japan, rode Cheval Grand to win the Group 1 Japan Cup (3200m). He is the regular rider of champion mare Winx but she has now been turned out for a winter spell and will not race again until the spring.
Trainer Chris Waller said he will be taking one race at a time with Winx in the new season but the ultimate goal will be another tilt at the Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) in late October, a race she has won for the past three years and which equals the great Kingston Town.
Browne pleased with lead-up
Cambridge-trained filly Belle du Nord turned in a first class trial for the Group 1 Schweppes Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on May 5 with a strong performance on the same track last Saturday.
The daughter of Reliable Man improved on her Australian debut, in which she finished fifth in the Listed Lealia Stakes (1600m), to run third in the Group 3 Auraria Stakes (1800m), just 4-1/2 lengths behind the winner Sopressa.
"She had to go forward from her wide barrier and she was travelling well, but then the leader dropped off and she was left in front," co-trainer Emma-Lee Browne said.
"She got a bit lost left in front so soon."
"She's got black-type in Australia now and that adds to her value and she has pulled up well so she'll go on for the Oaks.
Belle du Nord is a dual Group 1 placegetter in New Zealand, finishing second in the Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) as a 2-year-old and second in the Levin Classic (1600m) at Trentham.
