You look for a recent formline for winners and Awapuni visitor Tap'N' Gap boasts an impressive one for tomorrow's $15,000 Mount Wrecking Company 3-Y-O at Tauranga.
Three starts back in late December Tap'N' Gap showed she could be better than previously thought when she upset a 3-year-old field at Manawatu.
The odds were big and so was the performance - Tap'N' Gap storming home to beat The Meista and Ekstreme.
The subsequent form of that pair reflects well on Tap'N' Gap, even though she was in receipt of significant weight from both that day.
She then failed in stakes class behind Shanzero at Trentham before being spelled.
The track that day was firmer than Tap'N' Gap prefers, as was the footing at Woodville when she resumed from a three-month break last start.
A negative for Tap'N' Gap is that as a two-win horse she is required to carry 57.5kg, giving weight to promising male one-win 3-year-olds like Heredity and Coppa Del Mondo, a significant factor in these types of races.
Not everything went right for Heredity when he was beaten into fifth at Te Rapa last start and he was still only 1.75 lengths away from the winner when running a creditable fifth.
He shows plenty of promise and if the forecast rain arrives today and we're faced with a wet track it shouldn't bother him.
His granddam Half Cut won eight races and could handle rain-affected footing.
The Murray and Bjorn Baker-trained Dinka has looked good and is a real chance of the 58kg topweight doesn't prove too much.
Two starts back she won with 58kg in R70 at Ellerslie, impressing with the way she worked clear of the opposition late.
Last time out she was dropping back from the 1400m of that Ellerslie race to 1200m in the Cambridge Breeders Stakes and was simply outpaced.
The Stephen Marsh-trained Coppa Del Mondo is dropping back in class and looks on the verge of realising the potential he has always shown.
