After winning the Listed Poseidon Stakes (1100m) at Flemington’s Makybe Diva Stakes meeting in 2022, Buenos Noches, trained by Matthew Smith, returns to the same event this weekend, this time competing in the Group 2 Bobbie Lewis Quality (1200m).
Now five years old, Buenos Noches has only won once since that Poseidon victory, claiming the Group 3 Show County Quality (1200m) first-up last season.
“I’ve got confidence in the horse and I think he’s back to his best. We want a good, positive run to confirm this,” Smith told Racing.com.
“It was a combination of a lot of things—different variables like the tracks—but, for whatever reason, it was one of those preps which you had to draw a line through.
“He might have needed a good break as there wasn’t a lot of time between last spring and the Sydney Carnival.”
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