Breeding
Little Avondale Stud’s Group One-winning sire Nadeem has passed away. Bred by John Foote, Nadeem was bought for A$700,000 as a yearling in Australia by Angus Gold for Sheik Hamdan and Shadwell. Trained by David Hayes, the colt was a brilliant winner of the 2006 Gr.1
New Zealand
The Wanganui meeting scheduled for Saturday has been moved to Waverley racecourse due to an issue with the Wanganui track. The meeting will remain a Wanganui licence with fields, barrier draws and times unchanged. By necessity the 2040m race will become 2200m, the 1340m races will now be 1400m and
New Zealand
Sam Weatherley is enjoying a rewarding season in the saddle, highlighted by stakes successes at home and across the Tasman, while a notable milestone has also been ticked off. The Matamata jockey rode his 300th New Zealand winner when he successfully combined on the synthetic track at Cambridge on Wednesday
New Zealand
Finding suitable targets for talented Canterbury sprinter Chilly Filly (NZ) (Swiss Ace) is proving a challenge for Riccarton trainer Ross Beckett. Friday's Speight's Open Handicap (1200m) on the Riccarton polytrack provides Chilly Filly with an opportunity to add to her record of four wins from just
Breeding
Hawkesbury Valley-based boutique operation Tyreel Stud bid to $330,000 in the recent fortnightly gavelhouse.com mixed bloodstock auction for Gr.1 New Zealand 1,000 Guineas (1600m) runner-up Miss Tycoon Rose (Written Tycoon). Acting as agent, Damon Gabbedy of Belmont Bloodstock struck the final blow for the Written Tycoon
Australia
Group One-winning sprinter Roch ‘N’ Horse (NZ) (Per Incanto) could be instore for a busy spring. “She is in Sydney pre-training. She is due back in our stable next week,” trainer Michael Moroney told Bensley. “We are pretty keen to get her going early enough to see if she is
Australia
Promising three-year-old Wrote To Arataki (NZ) (Wrote) left an impression with her comfortable victory over 1200m at Sandown on Wednesday. From her outside barrier, jockey Mark Zahra elected to settle at the rear of the field before setting his charge alight three-wide with 500m to go. She showed her turn
Australia
Gypsy Goddess (NZ) (Tarzino) has continued her bad run of luck with barriers after drawing the outside gate in the 18-horse field for Saturday’s Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm. It is nothing new for the daughter of Tarzino who has had to overcome wide draws in
New Zealand
Awapuni horseman Peter Didham is now without his stable flagbearer, but he’s hopeful there are a few on hand to step into her shoes. Didham’s ability has been shown to best advantage in the last 18 months by House of Cartier, who this season won the Gr.3
Australia
Trainer John Sargent is changing his tactics with Kiwi-bred filly Gin Martini (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle) ahead of the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The Gr.1 Australian Oaks (2400m) placegetter has been ridden positively and finished fourth in her subsequent starts in the Listed
Australia
Dual Group One winner Sierra Sue (NZ) (Darci Brahma) has been retired. Sierra Sue was purchased out of Ardsley Stud’s 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock May Sale draft for $2,000 by Peter Lock. She had two trials for the Te Aroha trainer before she was purchased privately by a
New Zealand
Andrew Forsman has made a strong start to his solo training career with a brace of stakes wins already on the board within a month. The Cambridge horseman produced Francesca (NZ) (Iffraaj) for an impressive first-up win in the Gr.3 Rotorua Stakes (1400m) to open his black-type account and