Geraldton Wax breaks through as visitors dominate Regional heats

The daughter of multiple group one winner Lady Waratah brought up her first win at start five in a heat of the NSW Breeders Challenge Regional series.

Trainer-driver Bruce Harpley was pleased with the two-year-old.

"She has been knocking on the door," Harpley said.

"Her last two runs have been good and her Leeton run was really good."

Coming off two seconds, Geraldton Wax justified her favourite's tag to defeat La La Bron by 8.9 metres.

Harpley is now hoping for a good draw in next week's group two final.

"She went good, she went to the line strong andI didn't have to pull the plugs so it is all positive for the final," he said.

"She has really good gate speed and if she can lead then we will go down fighting."

Fellow Junee horseman Trevor White was the only other Riverina winner in the six heats after Western Secret bounced back from a disappointing display in the group one NSW Breeders Challenge final.

Making a mid-race move to gain the ascendancy, from there the three-year-old filly was never headed.

She went on to defeat Madame Annie by 2.5 metres.

Three of the heat winners were from Victoria while Game Set Major travelled down from Queensland to take out the opening heat for the three-year-old colts and geldings.

Taking advantage of some luck after the fields were redrawn, the son of Art Major made it two impressive wins in the space of a week.

Racing at Wagga was never the plan for Gunning trainer-driver Dean Cernovskis, who is on an annual winter trip north of the border.

Instead he was nominated for Newcastle's heat on Saturday.

But after being drawn as first emergency there, Game Set Major was given a second chance at Wagga when an extra heat was added following the initial release of the fields.

And he definitely made the most of it.

Leading all the way, Game Set Major backed up an impressed win on debut at Albion Park last Friday.

Cernovskis is excited for what lies ahead.

"I'm a big believer that if it's meant to be it is meant to be," Cernovskis said.

"When he was first emergency at Newcastle we thought we'd just give him another start then turn out but then we got a phonecall saying there was going to be third division.

"I said to (wife) Rikki when we were going to the races that if he goes good we will go and he went that good we would have been mad if we didn't.

"I'm glad we did now."

Group two finals will be run at Riverina Paceway next Sunday.

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