ROCKER BAND HEADS NORTH FOR SPRING RACING
Rocker Band heads north this week to Clevedon trainer Barry Purdon in search of more favourable opportunities through the spring.
Overport Lodge trainer Mark Jones is hopeful smaller field sizes at Alexandra Park will give Rocker Band a better chance of featuring in races such as the $20,000 Spring Cup (2200m stand) on Friday week (September 30) and $20,000 Holmes DG Pace (2700m stand) on October 14.
Rocker Band, last season’s Harness Jewels 4YO Mares Diamond winner, battled away for seventh first-up for the new term in Franco Nelson’s Hannon Memorial at Oamaru on September 11.
The Rocknroll Hanover mare is not nominated for November’s New Zealand Cup.