If Bulginbaah wins tomorrow's $70,000 Waikato Stud Foxbridge Plate at Te Rapa, the race should be renamed the Bulginbaah Stakes.
Any horse that can win a stakes race four times in six attempts like Bulginbaah will if he's successful tomorrow, deserves some recognition.
Bulginbaah won the Foxbridge Plate the firsttime when he defeated Don't Ya Lovett in 2006.
The next year he finished fourth to Baltain then, 12 months later, was beaten a short head by Jacowils.
In 2009, he scored by three lengths from Richard Beymer and, last year, beat the subsequent Railway winner Miss Raggedy Ann. It's one of the great modern-day records and to win the feature again as an 11-year-old will be something special.
Unquestionably Bulginbaah, like arch rival Fritzy Boy, is well suited to the set weight, weight-for-age scale after essentially carrying big weights in the handicaps.
His record of four wins from nine attempts at Te Rapa and 10 wins from 32 starts at the 1200m tells much of the story you need to know.
Last start, he finished fifth at New Plymouth, but many horses, including Fritzy Boy, failed to handle the conditions that day and that form can be ignored.
