Reputation making an impression

[Wandering Eyes]

Promising mare Reputation is making quite the impression on trainers Michael Moroney and Pam Gerard.

The daughter of Iffraaj recorded her second win from four starts when taking out the Eagle Technology 1600 at Pukekohe last Saturday and her conditioners believe there are more to come from the four-year-old, who was ridden by visiting Australian hoop Celine Gaudray.

“She’s a pretty good jockey Celine Gaudray, does a fair bit of riding for Mike (Moroney) in Melbourne, and when she came over to ride Luberon in the Soliloquy we thought it was a good opportunity to make use of her,” Gerard said.

It was a month between runs for Reputation and Gerard said she is looking at backing her up at Trentham this weekend before sending her for a spell.

“Each time, I’ve always spaced her races because she doesn’t carry a lot of extra (condition), but since that last run at Hastings she’s actually put on weight and got better,” Gerard said.

“We’ll take it race-by-race, but we’ve got to give her an ease up at some stage. We haven’t put a lot of pressure on her, so we’ll let her tell us.

“We’ll have a look through and see what else there is while she’s well and racing accordingly. She’ll let us know if she’s had enough for this prep, I think.

“We might find something suitable down at Trentham, then maybe go home to Christopher’s farm from there for a couple of weeks. We’ll just wait and see.”

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