Racing: Dating has heavy track winning form

Elle Tresor is a sound each-way chance tomorrow. Photo / Supplied

Dating is the one many will use as an anchor in tomorrow's Pick6.

She has plenty of plus points as she takes on the $45,000 Soliloquy Stakes, not the least of them being she's had three starts on heavy track for three wins.

Even though the winner Remember Howe was impressive winning last week's Gold Trail Stakes at Hastings, you can make a case Dating was a little unlucky in the run she received from the home turn.

Those are two strong points in her favour, but the most telling plus could be that Dating is on a seven-day back-up.

For horses that can physically cope with such a quick turnaround, seven days between races provides that extra level of fitness and that is going to be perhaps the one critical element at Ellerslie tomorrow - the ability to keep powering through testing conditions right to the finish.

Dating has already proved she can do that.

Co-trainer Debbie Rogerson has no concerns about backing Dating up.

"She came through the Hastings run well."

It was not known which race trainer Andrew Scott was aiming Extra Explosive towards but, on paper, the Bonecrusher Stakes looks slightly the easier option.

Scott also expressed a preference for the Bonecrusher after watching Extra Explosive work at Matamata yesterday morning.

Conditioning is going to be essential and Elle Tresor has that on her side thanks to a win in heavy ground at Taranaki and a good second to Rememba Howe in stakes class at Wanganui in two starts after a break.

She can clearly cope with the worst of winter footing and is a strong back-up chance for those not anchoring the favourite.

Fastnet Lady will also be supremely fit. She tried hard when a three-quarter length second to Elle Tresor at Taranaki and finished fourth to Fiddler and Jimmy Choux in the Wanganui Guineas.

The value runner looks like being Singapore Sling.

The grey filly ran right off the track approaching the home bend at Te Rapa last start.

She is trained the opposite way around at Te Aroha, but that was no excuse because she won on debut at Te Rapa and her only other start has been also left-handed, in the Ryder Stakes at Otaki.

You can only assume the last-start curve ball was just one of those things and that she will race truly.

There is a lot of ability there and she is not one to take a chance on.