Moskeeta out to keep drawn-out purple patch intact

Moskeeta has become the star of a battling stable and can take her winning strike rate to 35 per cent at Monday’s home Coffs Harbour meeting.

The flying six-year-old mare boasts a career record that most country gallopers would envy, and given how lightly raced she is, it threatens to climb even higher.

Moskeeta’s importance to Cathleen Rode can never be understated, even though the veteran trainer holds the honour of winning the first NSW Country Championship Final at Randwick in 2017 with the late gelding Free Standing.

Fast forward several years, and Moskeeta has provided six of her last seven wins stretching back an incredible 31 months.

Now the daughter of all-conditions sire Your Song is aiming for a seventh win at only her 20th start when she tackles the feature Benchmark 82 Hcp over 1205m.

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In fact, Moskeeta hasn’t finished further back than second in her last five runs since May.

It’s hard to believe she had two stable changes before making her debut for Rode back in June 2022. Yet it didn’t take her long to find that winning feeling, going back-to-back at Grafton and Coffs a few weeks later.

But Moskeeta appeared to lose her way later that year before a big setback saw her sidelined for a year from early 2023.