Marsh stablemates in zone for Foxbridge Group 2 test

Resuming runners Media World and Tardelli are primed for bold first-up displays in Saturday’s Group 2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) ahead of sterner spring tests.

The Stephen Marsh-trained pair have trialled encouragingly ahead of the Waikato Stud-sponsored feature at Te Rapa, with Matthew Cartwright and Kyle Wilson-Taylor respectively booked to partner the duo.

Safely through the weekend, they will both head to the Group1 Proisir Plate (1400m) at Ellerslie on September 5 in which they will be joined by glamour mare Well Written.

“She came through her trial at Taupo brilliantly and we’ll take her up to Ellerslie on Thursday week for a light gallop. I can’t fault her at all,” Marsh said.

Like her unbeaten stablemate, Media World runs in the colours of powerhouse Australian-based operation Yulong.

“They’ve obviously got half of Well Written and Media World and we’ve also got Hidden Achievement, an I Am Invincible colt who will trial on Saturday before the first at Te Rapa, and a Super Seth two-year-old colt for them,” Marsh said.

Hidden Achievement is out of the Group 1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) winner Luna Rossa and was successful once from nine starts for Chris Waller and finished runner-up in last year’s Group 1 JJ Atkins (1600m).

Written Tycoon’s son Media World was a A$1.4 million yearling and won four races, including the Group 3 Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) and Listed Paris Lane Stakes (1400m), for Peter Snowden before relocating to Cambridge.