New Zealand
Last season’s standout three-year-old filly Legarto (NZ) (Proisir) pleased trainers Ken and Bev Kelso with her first public hit-out this preparation at Te Rapa on Tuesday. The daughter of Proisir settled midfield for jockey Ryan Elliot in her 900m trial before looming wide at the turn and closed late
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Mongolian Falcon got off the mark as a sire last Friday when Mumbo Jumbo broke through for her maiden win on Riccarton’s synthetic track. Vicki Wilson, who stands the Group Two winning son of Fastnet Rock at her Hawke’s Bay property, was rapt with the result. “It was
New Zealand
Hayley Hassman kicked off her riding career in the best possible fashion at Te Rapa on Saturday when winning aboard Hill Of Kings in her first raceday ride. It was a sentimental day for the 17-year-old amateur jockey, who was riding in front of her adoring family and friends, with
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Mark Walker put a winning seal on a stellar season when taking out the last race of the card at Te Rapa on Saturday with Hero Worship (Xtravagant). The victory brought Walker’s season tally to 203 wins, 63 ahead of the previous best mark held by former Te Akau
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There will be a new trainer’s name in the racebook come Tuesday, with Ryan Foote set to join his father Ben in partnership at the dawn of the new season. While Foote, 20, has always been around horses, it wasn’t until COVID-19 lockdown that he renewed his love
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Riccarton trainer Andrew Carston finished the season off on a high at his home track last Friday when scoring a winning treble and securing the South Island Trainers’ Premiership in the process. It’s been a tough season for the southern barn, with the passing of stable apprentice Megan Taylor
New Zealand
Te Awamutu trainer Debbie Sweeney has been impressed with MacFire’s run of form of late and she is hoping that continues at Te Rapa on Saturday where he will contest the Property Brokers Taumarunui 3YO (1400m). The son of Saville Row failed to flatter in his first two starts,
New Zealand
Mark Walker is in rarefied air after becoming the first New Zealand trainer to record 200 domestic wins in a season at Awapuni on Thursday. Te Akau’s head trainer went into the synthetic meeting requiring two wins to reach the mark and his eight-strong team duly delivered. Redsheis brought
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Melissa Douglas’ dream start to her training career continued at Oamaru on Wednesday when Shejengar (NZ) (Echoes of Heaven) scored her first win in the Stephen Heffernan Property Brokers (1200m). It was Douglas’ second start as a trainer, with Shejengar runner-up in her debut outing at Wingatui earlier in the
New Zealand
Eshay (NZ) (Contributer) has shown trainer Peter Didham plenty of ability in work on Awapuni’s polytrack and he is hoping she can bring that to raceday this week. The daughter of Contributer will have her first start on the synthetic surface on Thursday in the Martin Collins NZ 1400m
New Zealand
A trip to Karaka five years ago is well and truly paying off for southern trainer Stephen Blair-Edie. A chestnut colt caught the Southland farmer’s expert stock eye in Phoenix Park’s New Zealand Bloodstock May Sale draft, and he went to $9,000 to secure him. At the
Breeding
Good things come in fours at Grangewilliam Stud, at least for August anyway. For the first month of the new season, the South Taranaki farm will offer a strong incentive for New Zealand breeders, with all three of their stallions – Zed, Derryn, and The Bold One – available for $4,000+