New Zealand
New Plymouth trainer Emma Davies holds a strong hand in the Vintech Pacific Poverty Bay Cup (2500m) at Hastings on Saturday. The Taranaki horsewoman will line-up two of the favoured horses in the race, That’s Incranibull (NZ) (Cape Blanco) and Torque Time (NZ) (Guillotine). Davies is pleased with both
Australia
Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman are down to just one runner in the Gr.1 Sydney Cup (3200m), with five-year-old entire The Chosen One (NZ) (Savabeel) to represent the stable following the withdrawal of stablemate Quick Thinker (So You Think) with a minor setback. The barrier draw Gods
New Zealand
Seven-win mare Ritani (NZ) (Makfi) is on trial for stakes targets when she lines up in the Ascot Sports Bar Handicap (1600m) at Ascot Park on Sunday. The Kerry and Ian Taplin-trained six-year-old was purchased by her trainers with a broodmare career in-mind and they would dearly love to get
Breeding
New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual South Island Sale, its second in an online format, concluded on plus.gavelhouse.com on Wednesday. Astute kiwi judges were in the thick of the bidding action, with bloodstock agent Phill Cataldo, Te Akau Racing Principal David Ellis, and Roger James and Robert Wellwood’s
International
David Hayes struck at Happy Valley on Wednesday with emerging talent when Showina, veteran of only two previous starts, prevailed in the first section of the Class 4 Larch Handicap (1200m) under Blake Shinn. “He had to do some work from the outside barrier (gate 12) to establish the lead
New Zealand
Group One winning filly Bonham has run her final race for her current connections, with prominent owner Gary Harding confirming the daughter of Per Incanto will be sold as a racing and breeding prospect at the Gold Coast Sale next month. Prepared at Otaki by Johno Benner and Hollie Wynyard,
Australia
The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Quick Thinker has been withdrawn from Saturday’s A$2million Gr.1 Sydney Cup (3200m) after a minor issue with his near foreleg. The OTI raced four-year-old ran out a strong winner of last week’s Gr.2 Chairman’s Quality (2600m) and will
New Zealand
The abandonment of Te Aroha’s Group One meeting last Saturday could be a blessing in disguise for Coventina Bay. The Taranaki mare was set to contest the Gr.1 Fiber Fresh NZ Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m), but will now repeat the float trip a week later to race in
Breeding
A third member of New Zealand thoroughbred breeding’s elite broodmare ranks will be honoured when Sunbride joins iconic producers Eulogy and Eight Carat in the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame. The name Sunbride will forever be connected to the Williams family’s Te Parae and Little Avondale Studs,
New Zealand
Nicholas Bishara would love nothing more than to be trackside at Randwick to watch his star mare Verry Elleegant contest Saturday's $A4 million Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m). But the South Auckland trainer is mindful that any sudden COVID-19 outbreak could see the reintroduction of enforced 14-day
New Zealand
Racing Minister Grant Robertson has announced he is appointing Elizabeth Dawson as the Chair of the interim TAB NZ Board. Liz Dawson is an existing Board Director of the interim TAB NZ Board and Chair of the TAB NZ Board Selection Panel and will continue in her role as Chair
New Zealand
Jonathan Riddell would love nothing more than to ride a Group One winner for his great mate Ben Foote. He will get his chance in Saturday's Fiber Fresh New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa aboard the Foote-trained Travelling Light (NZ) (El Roca). Riddell and