Timely Victory For Oaks Hopeful (February 12 2010)

Everyday had a sense of timing about her when the WS-owned and bred filly posted her maiden success at the Pukekura Raceway yesterday. Connections had made a second payment earlier in the week to keep her in the mix for the Gr 1 New Zealand Oaks while her first victory also came on the eve of a notable effort from her mother during her successful racing career.

She is out of the former top racemare Freequent who gained a Gr 1 placing when third in the 1995 Waikato International Stakes at Te Rapa. The daughter of Mistral Dancer was the winner of seven races, including the Gr 3 New Zealand St Leger, and is also a half-sister to the dam of Gr 1 Queensland Derby winner Court Ruler.

By O'Reilly, Everyday is trained at New Plymouth by Allan Sharrock who has a fall back plan if the Oaks comes up too soon for the three-year-old. "She's a dead-set mile and a-half filly but it might be a bit cramped - we'll wait and see and there's always the Warstep Stakes," he said. "It would be nice to get some black-type with her."

Everyday, who is from the family of Gr 1 Stradbroke Handicap winner Black Piranha, was making her third appearance yesterday and Sharrock had confidence in her prospects. "She's always been able to run good sectionals, but she was getting quite dour so the blinkers put more leg speed in to her," he said. He also has Everyday's two-year-old sister and with WS a yearling daughter of Redoute's Choice's exciting son Fast 'N' Famous.