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Course specialist Pinzaara completed a three meeting feature race haul for Waikato Stud when she won the open sprint at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Waikato graduates Maritimo and Wolfwhistle had earlier claimed Listed events at Trentham and Riccarton to set up another successful day for the Matamata stud.

A daughter of Pins, Pinzaara led all of the way to account for the G1 winner Albany Reunion and record the fifth win of her career.

The six-year-old has a special affinity with the Auckland track with three past successes and five placings at Ellerslie.

Bred by Garry Chittick, she is out of the Danasinga mare Barzar Babe. She is a half-sister to the dual G3 winner Skybeau, who also ran third in the G1 Melbourne Cup.

The G1 Turnbull Stakes winner Devil’s Moon is another notable member of Pinzaara’s pedigree.

Precocious Pins youngster Maritimo earned herself a break after keeping her unbeaten record intact with an effortless victory at Trentham in the Listed Wellesley Stakes.

The filly had impressed on debut at Ruakaka and she went to another level on Saturday with a crushing defeat of her two-year-old rivals for trainers Graeme and Debbie Rogerson.

“She’ll go out for a spell now and then she’ll be aimed at the Karaka Million,” co-trainer Debbie Rogerson said.

The Rogersons have won all but two of the two-year-old events run in NZ so far this season and celebrated an inter-Island double on Saturday with Jacquetta a runaway winner at Riccarton.

Maritimo (Pins x Miracle Miss by O’Reilly) was a NZ$200,000 purchase at this year’s New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale by Rogerson Bloodstock from the Waikato Stud draft.

Her dam was trained by John Sargent to win the G3 Taranaki Cup while her second dam is the Listed winner Mandate (Sound Reason), who has produced four winners

including the dual G3 winner Dating (O’Reilly).

Her third dam Darzam (Zamazaan) is a half sister to 10 winners.

Maritimo became the 63rd stakes winner for her sire Pins, the G1 winning son of Snippets.

Jason Bridgman was a satisfied trainer after the Waikato Stud home-bred Wolfwhistle won the Listed Spring Classic at Riccarton.

The lightly-tried four-year-old has now won four of his 10 starts and now realising the potential he displayed last season.

By O’Reilly, Wolfwhistle is out of the two-time G1 winner Legs and was bought by Te Akau principal David Ellis for $240,000 when offered at Karaka in 2012.

In winning the Spring Classic Wolfwhistle (O'Reilly x Legs by Pins) became the 76th stakes winner for O’Reilly. They include 12 individual G1 winners.