New Zealand
Northern hoop Ryan Elliot will head home to Horowhenua this weekend where he is favoured to bring home the lion’s share of the $300,000 purse in the Gr.1 El Cheapo Cars WFA Classic (1600m) at Otaki on Saturday. Elliot will partner multiple Group One winner Levante who
New Zealand
The Chrissy Bambry-trained Chantilly Lace (NZ) ran out an impressive winner of the Palamountains Animal Nutrition 2YO 1200 at Wanganui on Thursday and in the process provided her sire, US Navy Flag, with his first southern hemisphere winner. Sent out an $11 chance, Chantilly Lace settled midfield under Kelsey
New Zealand
A heavy track is not the surface Riccarton trainer Lance Robinson wants as he looks for a black-type pathway for two promising three-year-old fillies slated to race on Friday. But with Riccarton's track producing a Heavy8 on Thursday and with rain through the day, Robinson
New Zealand
Australian jockey Andrew Adkins has answered the call of trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott and will cross the Tasman next week to ride Jaffira (NZ) (Iffraaj) in the Gr.1 Auckland Thoroughbred Racing New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Te Rapa. “Andrew Scott approached him during the week and
Lindsay Park trainers Ben and JD Hayes are back at Sandown chasing a Group One win having thought they had won a race at the top level two weeks ago. The Hayes brothers were left gutted when Gentleman Roy (So You Think) had the Gr.1 C F Orr Stakes
New Zealand
Craig Zackey has regrettably called time on his brief and highly successful riding stint in New Zealand that included a memorable victory in the Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) aboard undefeated youngster Tokyo Tycoon (NZ) (Satono Aladdin). The South African jockey proved a valuable addition to the northern domestic ranks during
Australia
Roch ‘N’ Horse’s (NZ) (Per Incanto) campaign to defend her crown in the Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) is back on track. The Per Incanto mare was withdrawn from last Saturday’s Gr.1 Lightning Stakes (1000m) on vets advice due to cellulitis in her hind leg. Trainer Michael
New Zealand
Following the extension of the State of Emergency and ongoing recovery from the devastating effects of Cyclone Gabrielle on the Hawke’s Bay region, the decision has been made by Hawke’s Bay Racing and NZTR to transfer the Little Avondale Lowland Stakes Raceday from Hastings to Awapuni on Wednesday
New Zealand
Mark Walker would love nothing more than to see the jockey statue in the Matamata racecourse birdcage painted in the colours of a Te Akau Racing-trained winner. That's one of the spinoffs for connections of the winner of Saturday's Gr.2 J Swap Contractors Matamata
Australia
It was a proud moment for Wingatui trainer Terry Kennedy on Tuesday as he watched his daughter Jaylah record her first win as a jockey in Australia. The expat Kiwi was having her seventh raceday ride aboard Friday At Five at Stawell for trainer Henry Dwyer and there was no
New Zealand
Mustang Valley (NZ) (Vanbrugh) will be looking to get her campaign back on track when she heads to Randwick on Saturday. The Group One-winning mare dislodged jockey Wiremu Pinn shortly after the start of the Gr.1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) after clipping a heel at Te Rapa earlier
New Zealand
Matamata trainer Graham Richardson has an eye on New Zealand’s longest juvenile Group One race as he prepares To Catch A Thief (U S Navy Flag) to resume racing at his home track this weekend. Third in the Gr.3 Eclipse Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa on New Year’