New Zealand
Lance O'Sullivan has gone close to winning the Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) in his time training, five-times producing three-year-olds to finish in the top five. The Matamata trainer reels off a list of high-class performers to have run well recently for
New Zealand
The Steven Ramsay and Julia Ritchie-trained Aloft (NZ) (Atlante) showed plenty of her potential when winning on debut at Arawa Park on Wednesday. The three-year-old daughter of Atlante settled to the rear of the field for jockey Danielle Johnson after jumping away from her outside barrier in
Australia
New Zealand-bred galloper Hard Press (NZ) (Shamexpress) made it back-to-back wins when successful at Sandown on Wednesday over 1000m. It was just the third start for the Shamexpress colt who was lumbered with 60kg in Wednesday’s race. “I just thought at 1000m they might be a
New Zealand
Team Rogerson will have a host of winning chances at feature meetings at both ends of the north island this week. Smart sprinter Ferrando (NZ) (Fast 'n' Famous) will head to Otaki on Friday where the Group One performer has a 60kg impost in the Listed Fasttrack Insurance
New Zealand
Cambridge trainer Andrew Campbell will head south to Otaki on Friday to line-up two Derby prospects in the Gr.3 Lucia Valentina Wellington Stakes (1600m). Peloton (NZ) heads into the race off the back of a runner-up performance at Te Rapa last month and Campbell said the son
New Zealand
Cambridge trainer Tony Pike has a few races in consideration for smart two-year-old Not An Option (Not A Single Doubt). The winner of his only raceday start at Counties, Not An Option won a trial at Cambridge on Tuesday over 800m and looks one of the early lamplighters
New Zealand
Talented three-year-old Equinox (NZ) (Exceed and Excel) is likely to contest the Rating 82 Benchmark Withers & Co Chartered Accountants 1100m at Ellerslie as the Jamie Richards-trained colt looks to work his way through the grades to sprinting features. The winner of three races and stakes-placed
New Zealand
Leading jockey Matt Cameron is nervously waiting to hear how much of the lucrative summer racing period he will be forced to spend watching from the sidelines. Cameron was injured after riding Visenya to a fifth-placed finish at New Plymouth last Friday. “I came back, dismounted and started taking
New Zealand
There are plenty of options available to Shaune Ritchie with in-form galloper Swords Drawn (Camelot), but the Cambridge trainer is leaning towards a tilt at the Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship (2400m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day. The four-year-old son of Camelot is in a purple
New Zealand
The Lauren Brennan-trained Magnum (NZ) (Per Incanto) booked his ticket for the Gr.2 Kamada Park Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni next month with his victory at Pukekohe on Saturday. The seven-year-old gelding was able to gather in pacemaker Contessa Vanessa (NZ) (Bullbars) in the final
Australia
Impeccably bred filly Zayydani (NZ) (Savabeel) maintained her unbeaten record when she scored over 1600m at Seymour on Sunday. Owned by her breeders, Brent and Cherry taylor of trelawney Stud, the three-year-old Savabeel filly is a half-sister to multiple Group One winner Grunt who now stands at
Australia
Six-time Melbourne Cup winning owner Lloyd Williams is set leave his Macedon Lodge training establishment which has produced four Cup winners since the turn of the century. Macedon Lodge will close as a private training base for horses owned by Williams and his son Nick next month and be