Prowess shows her prowess

• Author: RacingMichael Guerin at Pukekohe
• Published date: 22 January 2023
• Publication title: Herald on Sunday

The exciting Cambridge filly last night downed the superstars of her crop in Wild Night (second) and Legarto (fourth), with the glamour gallopers split in third by Desert Lightning

But while she didn’t go into the race with the hype of the favourites, Prowess emerged as a special filly, kept out of trouble by Warren Kennedy who then pushed the button at the right time to put a winning break on Wild Night.

Legarto, who was never really in clear air back and on the inside, unwound late for fourth but by then the race was over.

Prowess’s win was about her crucial weapon, speed — the ability to use it early and then again late, the sort of weapon that should make her a Group 1 winner in the near future.

She has already won the Auckland Guineas this summer and surely Australia must beckon at some stage.

Her huge performance was just the latest massive three-year-old win in the career of senior training partner Roger James, who trains Prowess with Robert Wellwood.

While James will go down as one of our great three-year-old trainers, Wellwood has brought his own brand of energy to the stable and they are now stacking up the big three-year-old races together, having captured the Queensland...