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Don’t be surprised if Miss Mossman gives a sight on her home turf this weekend.

The Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks winner has come through her respectable first-up run at Hastings in good order and will continue her cups’ preparation with an outing in Saturday’s Listed Team Wealleans Matamata Cup over 1600m.

“She’s pleased us in her work and, while she’s still well and truly on the way up, we still expect her to put in a cheeky run as long as the track’s okay for her,” said co-trainer Andrew Scott, who prepares the mare with Lance O’Sullivan.

“We’ll take advantage of a run on her home track and it’s a natural progression in distance.”

Formerly trained by John Sargent and Hayden Allen, Miss Mossman had her first outing for Wexford Stables on the middle day of the Hawke’s Bay carnival and did well to run sixth over 1400 metres.

“We were pleased with her at Hastings where she put in a solid performance,” Scott said.

“Obviously, she’s still at the improving stage and we’ll work her up in distance.”

A winner at two, Miss Mossman beat the older horses over a mile at Rotorua earlier this year before she finished a solid fifth in the Gr.2 Sir Tristram Fillies’ Classic in her first appearance over ground.

She subsequently ran second to Miss Selby in the Gr.3 Lowland Stakes before she turned the tables on the Hastings filly in the one that mattered – the Oaks at Trentham.

A wet autumn in Sydney resulted in unplaced Group One efforts in the Storm Queen Stakes and the ATC Oaks and her new trainers are optimistic for a lucrative spring and summer with Miss Mossman.

“We’ll be looking at the cup races with her,” Scott said.