Former top class runner in Italy and Hong Kong, Willie Cazals is set to make his long awaited debut in this country in the Group Two Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate (1200m) here at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Last season's Group One winner Valley Girl was brilliant winning the Harcourts Optimize Open (1200m) at Ruakaka on Saturday.

Hot favourite Mongolian Falcon duly obliged in the $20,000 Harcourt Just Rental over 1000m on Saturday at Ruakaka, but co-trainer Chris Gibbs said the penny had not dropped yet.

Miss Three Stars and her Dublin-born jockey Samantha Wynne provided a Cinderella story when the pair captured the $100,000 Group Three eStar Winter Cup (1600m) at Riccarton on Saturday.

All honours went the way of the Lisa Latta team on Saturday, as she bagged the Otaki feature with the talented colt Manhattan Street.