Iain Hyndman's Te Aroha Tips
1: Alternative Fact, Fabulous Flight, Musstumut
2: Rock On, Roger That, Seventeen Seventy
3: Ginger King, Secret Excelsior, Up 'n' Gone
4: Dawn Patrol, Kainui Rose, Expresso Martini
5: Pop Star Princess, Remington, Casaquinman
6: Hasabro, Incantesimo, She's Fearless
7: The Mitigator, Sultan Of Swing, Mongolianconqueror
8: Concert Hall, Volpe Veloce, Supera
9: Santa Catarina, Raposa Rapida, Honesty
Best Bet: Santa Catarina (R9)
Tony Pike will be honouring a promise to Golden Slipper-winning jockey Damian Lane at Randwick on Saturday.
Lane added the Gr.1 Golden Slipper (1200m) to his CV when successful on Kiamichi last month and will be out to win at the top level for Pike when the Cambridge trainer legs him aboard Surely Sacred in the Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday.
"I owe Damian a Derby ride,'' Pike said. ''He rode Sacred Elixir for me in Melbourne a few years ago and won a couple on him, but he didn't get to ride him in the Victoria Derby (Gr.1, 2500m) as we had Zac Purton booked for that.
"I told him I'd give him a Derby ride one day and he'll have his chance on Surely Sacred on Saturday. I'm looking forward to it.''