Second Wanganui Cup for daughter of Reset

Reset’s evergreen seven-year-old mare Cassini returned to Wanganui to claim her second Listed Wanganui Cup on 1 December, giving the talented mare her third career Stakes win overall.

Cassini was strongest in the straight and came home a half length in front of Better Together with Ascolini a further length-and-a-half back in third.

It was a tremendous effort by trainer Mark Oulaghan to get the mare back into winning ways as it has been some 12 months since her last victory when she scored back-to-back wins in the Listed Wanganui and G3 Manawatu Cups. The victory was the sixth win for Cassini who is now likely to target the G2 City Of Auckland Cup over 2400m at Ellerslie on 1 January, a race she finished runner-up in 2011.

Bred by D Dean, Cassini is out of Mathematical, a grand-daughter of Danzig, and is a half-sister to G2 Sir Tristram Fillies Classic winner Centrofold, while the mare's grand dam True Devotion, was the winner of the 1984 G1 West Australia Oaks.

The sire of 19 Stakes winners, Reset enjoyed a very good spring carnival headlined by his son Fawkner, who recorded his third career Stakes win on Derby Day when taking out the G3 Tab.com.au Stakes over 1400m, returning on the final day of the Melbourne Cup carnival to finish a narrow second in the G1 Emirates Stakes over 1600m.

An unbeaten, dual G1 winner, Reset is standing the current season at a fee of $16,500 (inc. GST) at Darley’s Victorian property Northwood Park.