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By Neil Evans

A well bred four-year-old is set to continue an outstanding spring return for one of NSW’s leading stables when he resumes at Wednesday’s Wyong meeting.

Columbia Blue ($2.10 into $1.80 favourite on TAB), a smart and emerging son of 2019 The Everest winner Yes Yes Yes in the Joe Pride stable at Warwick Farm, hasn’t started since missing narrowly in a Benchmark 64 on the Kensington Track in early June.

That was only his third and final start of an initial campaign that saw him bolt in the maiden at Hawkesbury in heavy ground, while beating all but the winner in two others runs either side of that.

Columbia Blue (Adam Hyeronimus) cruises home at Hawkesbury. Image by Bradley Photographers

Columbia Blue has been fitted with two home trials, and the trainer believes he’s ready to pick up where he left off last campaign first-up in the Gosford Air Class 1-Heat of the Rising Star over 1100m.

And Columbia Blue may be even better suited by the time they jump, with intermittent rain forecast in the lead-up and could possibly push the track from an early Good 4 into the soft range.

Either way, the momentum is unlikely to stop for the Pride camp.

Among 10 individual winners from 31 runners over the past four weeks, a Group 1 at Flemington over the carnival and The Hunter quinella at Newcastle have led the charge.

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