James McDonald is looking a safe proposition to win the Sydney jockeys’ premiership in his first full season of racing since a long ban. McDonald extended his lead in the 2018-19 title with a winning treble at a rain-soaked Warwick Farm meeting on W
Multiple stakes-winning filly Melt will continue her immediate racing future with expat Kiwi trainer Chris Waller in Sydney. The daughter of Iffraaj is currently spelling in Christchurch after a successful spring campaign that resulted in two wins and a p
Speeding Spur was the big winner among the New Zealand Inter Dominion contingent when the barrier draws were announced for the opening heats of the series on Monday. The John and Josh Dickie-trained square-gaiter has drawn perfectly in barrier two in the
Starrybeel and King’s Cross emerged on Saturday as exciting replacements to help fill the void in Stephen Marsh’s stable with the loss of his top-rated horses. The stable’s Group One winner Thee Auld Floozie has been retired to stud, Gr.2 Brisbane C
Promising two-year-old filly Bavella destroyed her rivals in the Listed Splice Construction Stakes (1100m). The Snitzel youngster had impressed when winning on debut at Ellerslie last month and was installed a warm favourite for the event. An awkward barr
One of the best of last season’s three-year-old crop showed he was back in no uncertain terms with a dashing victory in the Listed Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m) at Pukekohe. Jimmy Choux gelding Bostonian rounded off his three-year-old campaign with
Imported mare Igraine rubber-stamped her quality as a stayer of note when she downed a handy line-up in Saturday’s Gr.3 Ssangyong Counties Cup (2100m) at Pukekohe. Carrying the famous Trelawney Stud colours of owners Brent and Cherry Taylor, the impecca
Under-rated mare Bisou Bisou pulled off a major upset when she produced a powerful finishing burst to claim victory in the Gr.2 Dunstan Feeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Pukekohe. The seven-year-old mare continued her unbeaten run
Matamata trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott will thrust in-form mare Sleeping Beauty into the deep end at Pukekohe on Saturday when she contests the Gr.2 Dunstan Feeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m). The Sir Peter Vela-
Local trainer Roydon Bergerson is quietly confident with six-year-old gelding Beefeater heading into the John Turkington Forestry Limited/Wai Pine Ltd Bulls Country Cup (1500m) at Awapuni on Saturday. The Group Three winner has been in top form of late, p
Trainer Donna Logan boarded her plane to Singapore on Friday morning with a spring in her step after a successful hit and run mission to the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale of two-year-olds at Karaka this week. Logan, who has really started to hi
Waikato Stud recorded a standout session on Day One of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run sale on Wednesday, selling four of the five top lots. The quartet were prepared by Jamie Beatson under his Ohukia Lodge banner and the result was made sweeter b
Group One-winning entire Embellish has been retired after an ongoing knee issue and is set to join Cambridge Stud’s stallion roster next year. “He arrived at Te Akau Stud yesterday where he will let down,” Te Akau principal David Ellis
Top Te Aroha galloper Hiflyer will take an unorthodox path to the Gr.1 Sistema Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day. Hiflyer has been set for the major sprint since being put aside for a spell following his sixth to Melody Belle and Savvy Coup
Outsider Silver Joy handed Kiwi trainer Bruce Marsh his 400th winner in Singapore after he won the S$85,000 Restricted Maiden race over 1600m on Sunday. The affable former jockey was all smiles as he headed down to the winner’s circle to toast to the n
Just twelve months ago rider Sam Spratt was the toast of Riccarton after securing her first New Zealand Cup (3200m) with a daring front-running ride on outsider Gobstopper. Fast forward to the 2018 edition of the Christchurch Casino sponsored, Group Three
Visiting northern filly Media Sensation shrugged off a chequered trip to Christchurch to claim her maiden Group One victory in Saturday’s Gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m). Prevented from travelling south earlier in the week due to fog in
Oops, they did it again. West Melton’s Ford family took out New Zealand’s richest trotting race at Addington on Friday afternoon when Marcoola scored a sensational victory, 12 months after his stablemate Amaretto Sun scored at upset odds. Ken Ford tra
Cruz Bromac made it short-course Group 1 wins on either side of the Tasman in 2018 when victorious in Friday’s $200,000 Group 1 New Zealand Free For All at Addington. The New Zealand-bred pacer, who won Sydney’s Len Smith Mile in July, landed a sustai
Leading Gr.1 Gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) contenders Xpression and Melt once shared a paddock at Haunui Farm, but there will be no love lost between the star three-year-old fillies when they contest the Riccarton feature on Saturday. Th