Waiting tactics pay off

Patience was rewarded this afternoon at Rotorua, where Rue De Rivoli successfully returned from a break.

The Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson-trained Tivaci filly was put aside after an unplaced debut run in the autumn and, off the back of a trial placing, the three-year-old was produced in tip top order to resume over 1230 metres.

Rue De Rivoli travelled well in the fifth spot before peeling wide across the top, and she finished off generously for rider Opie Bosson to break her maiden.

She was bred by Waikato Stud and sold to Te Akau’s David Ellis for $340,000 at Karaka, and the Matamata nursery will offer her sister as Lot 621 at the 2024 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale next month.

They are out of the Savabeel mare Boulevard, whose sister Acting won the G2 Thousand Guineas Prelude, and they are granddaughters of the dual Group 1 winner Glamour Puss, whose half-brother Vision And Power was also successful twice at the highest level.