Norzita to step out in exhibition gallop

Sunday 11 August 2013, 5:57pm

Dual Group One winner Norzita will add a touch of glamour to Wednesday's Warwick Farm meeting with the mare to gallop between races ahead of her season return.

Norzita's win in the Vinery Stud Stakes was the 266th at Group One level for Bart Cummings and the last in his own right with his grandson James now a fully fledged training partner.

Eurozone gave the partnership its first stakes win on Saturday in the Listed Rosebud and like Norzita, sports the famous black and white checked silks of Dato Tan Chin Nam.

The Malaysian businessman has been a long-time friend and client of Bart Cummings and his Australian racing manager Duncan Ramage says he is looking forward to the new venture, particularly with Eurozone and Norzita.

"It's a wonderful start and Dato Tan is looking forward to the future," Ramage said.

"Both Norzita and Eurozone can hopefully go on to big things this spring."

Eurozone is unbeaten from three starts in a campaign that began in June and all going well, will culminate in the Caulfield Guineas in October.

In between he will go to the Group Three Run To The Rose on August 31 and the $1 million Golden Rose two weeks later.

Norzita is scheduled to resume in the Toy Show Quality (1300m) on August 24 at Warwick Farm with the George Main Stakes on September 21 her Sydney Group One target.

"She will gallop between races because there are no trials on the course proper at Warwick Farm on Friday," Ramage said.

"After the mares' race the plan is the George Main and then she will go to Melbourne for the Underwood Stakes as a lead-in to the Cox Plate."

Norzita has only been to Warwick Farm once, finishing a controversial fifth as favourite in a 1400m race at her third start.

She rounded off her three-year-old spring with victory in the Group One Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick and finished the autumn with a close third in the Doncaster Mile after her Vinery win at Rosehill.

"She has shown how good she is at the Randwick mile so the George Main over the distance looks like the right race for her," Ramage said.

Norzita is a $31 chance in TAB's first Cox Plate markets with three-year-old autumn triple crown winner It's A Dundeel the $5 favourite ahead of Australian Cup winner Super Cool at $6 and Atlantic Jewel at $8.

– AAP

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