Miagi Back On Track

MIAGI, ranked as Australia's best stayer until suffering a serious injury, continued his comeback campaign with a successful trial up the straight at Appin on Tuesday.

Miagi covered the 366m in the fair time of 21.40sec, figures not good enough to win a top grade sprint there but which satisfied trainer Warren Harper.

``He had never been out of the starting boxes behind the drag lure on a straight track before,'' Warren told The Dogs.

``So we were happy with his run.

``A lot of dogs trialled faster than Miagi on Tuesday, but then again, there were many which went slower, too.

``He pulled up sound which was all we were concerned about.''