New Zealand
New Zealand’s oldest racing club celebrated its 175th anniversary with the running of Saturday’s Steelform Roofing Group Wanganui Cup (2040m), and the Listed feature could have had no more fitting and popular winner than Kelly Coe (NZ) (Proisir). The Proisir mare races in the colours of owner-breeders
Australia
Talented New Zealand-bred mare Lekvarte (NZ) (Reliable Man)may have earned herself a Group Three opportunity with her victory in the A$160,000 Doyle’s Breeding and Racing Handicap (1400m) at Rosehill on Saturday. The Joe Pride-trained mare had kicked off her five-year-old season with
New Zealand
A reputation for being a perennial placegetter is now a distant memory for Glamour Tycoon (AUS) (Written Tycoon), who scored her second win in a row with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Listed O’Learys Fillies’ Stakes (1340m) at Wanganui. The daughter of Written Tycoon went winless in the
New Zealand
Enigmatic galloper El Vencedor (NZ) (Shocking) capped off some consistent form and provided trainer Stephen Marsh with a winning black-type double when he bolted clear to win the Gr.3 Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa. Marsh had produced promising three-year-old filly Glamour Tycoon (AUS) (Written
Australia
Leading Sydney jockey Nash Rawiller is forming a potent partnership with New Zealand-bred gelding Toesonthenose, who scored a comfortable win in Saturday’s A$160,000 Vale Ray Markey Handicap (1800m) at Rosehill. Rawiller had his first ride on the Ocean Park gelding at Newcastle on November 18, scoring
New Zealand
Champion Victorian jockey Blake Shinn will be in action in New Zealand on Boxing Day at Pukekohe Park as well as at the lucrative Karaka Millions meeting at Ellerslie on January 27. Shinn, who was in New Zealand just over a week ago for the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to
Australia
Shock 'Em Ova's (NZ) (Shocking) spring campaign is over after trainer Alex Rae scratched him from Saturday's Gr.2 Zipping Classic at Caulfield. Rae made the decision to scratch after his stable star suffered from "some very mild inflammation in a fetlock". "
New Zealand
Handicap conditions won’t be in the favour of middle-distance specialist Defibrillate when the classy gelding contests the Listed Steelform Roofing Group Wanganui Cup (2040m) on Saturday. The nine-year-old son of Shocking was a key figure in the top-flight middle-distance events last season and looked
Racing
Racing commentator Tony Lee is set to call his final Wellington Cup meeting following a long and iconic career behind the microphone stretching back to the 1980s. Dunedin-based race caller Justin Evans is preparing to move north where he will take over the reins from Mr Lee as Central
New Zealand
Leading Otago trainers Brian and Shane Anderton are set to make their presence felt with two well-credentialled runners in Sunday’s $50,000 Happy Hire Cromwell Cup (2030m). Shane Anderton expects the step up to 2030m to be ideal for Capo Dell Impero (NZ) (Ghibellines) and Burgie (NZ) (Ghibellines)
New Zealand
Cambridge trainer Shaune Ritchie has crossed the Tasman for a second tilt at the Jericho Cup (4600m) at Warrnambool on Sunday, four years on from a highly creditable first attempt. Ritchie saddled Where Are You (NZ) (Ekraar) to finish third at double-figure odds in the 2019 running of the
New Zealand
A busy Saturday afternoon is looming for Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh, who has 19 runners entered across the Te Rapa and Wanganui meetings including strong chances in all four black-type events. The first feature race of the afternoon is the Listed O’Learys Fillies’ Stakes (1340m) at Wanganui, which