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Zigwig could yet turn around a frustrating season by winning her way into Group One contention.

Last season’s Listed Champagne Stakes winner has endured a series of setbacks that have prevented her from showing her best, but connections are confident the filly is now back to full fitness.

“We think we’ve got her right for the first time since last May,” said Inglewood Stud’s Gus Wigley, whose family bred and races the daughter of Zacinto.

“She’s had a lot of niggling things go wrong. She’s had a sore hock and in the Canterbury Belle Stakes she was knocked from pillar to post and pulled a couple of ligaments across her back and she lost a bit of confidence.”

Zigwig is expected to give a strong account of herself when she steps out in the NZB South Island Sale April 21 Handicap at Riccarton on Friday.

“We know she has got a lot of ability and she galloped really well on Saturday,” said Wigley, whose father Nick trains Zigwig.

“She’ll have the blinkers on for the first time and that should help her confidence. If she happened to win then there’s a 2100 metre race at Ashburton for her and if she won that we would kick on to the Oaks.”

Meanwhile, Zigwig’s former stablemate Oh Romeo is closing in on his first start in Hong Kong.

“He can’t be far away, he’s trialled up there,” Wigley said.

Oh Romeo won both of his starts at Ashburton last year by wide margins to fast track his sale to clients of Francis Lui’s stable.