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Catalyst returning home to spell

Posted on September 22, 2020
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Catalyst’s spring campaign is over, but trainer Clayton Chipperfield admits he breathed a sigh of relief when hearing the result of Monday morning’s Sydney veterinary inspection on his stable star. Catalyst is booked to return to New Zealand on Sunday for a three-month spell after he tailed the field home when resuming in the Group[...]

Posted on September 22, 2020
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Callsign Mav’s victory in Saturday’s Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) was one of the biggest Group 1 upsets in the history of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival, but Emily Holmes was less surprised than most. Trained by John Bary for a group of owners based in Australia, Callsign Mav burst out of the trail to[...]

Posted on September 21, 2020
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Top jockey Vinnie Colgan is feeling frustrated counting down the weeks until his return to raceday competition, but that’s a far cry from his outlook on his riding future earlier this year. A couple of months after his last raceday ride at Tauranga last March, Colgan underwent an operation on an old neck injury he[...]

Posted on September 21, 2020
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It was another proud day for Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis CNZM as the multi-faceted operation recorded seven wins in the space of seven hours, in three different countries on Saturday. Last season’s champion trainer Jamie Richards saddled Vamos Bebe, Miss Aotearoa, and Savy Yong Blonk to win at Hastings, while Probabeel won at[...]

Posted on September 21, 2020
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The Group 1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings in a fortnight is shaping as another standout contest based on the comments from connections of the horses who finished in behind Saturday’s upset winner of the Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m), Callsign Mav. Form analysts will be casting their eyes over video replays of the[...]

Posted on September 21, 2020
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Trainer Stephen Ralph knows it is a big step up from an open handicap win at Ruakaka to the Group 1 Sistema Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s day but he is confident he has the horse that can take that leap in versatile customer New York Jazz. The five-year-old Niagara gelding stormed home[...]

Posted on September 21, 2020
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If smiling were an Olympic sport, then Milan Park principal Tony Rider would most likely have had a gold medal hanging around his neck on Saturday evening. Rider was on hand at Hastings to watch two three-year-old fillies he bred and owns assure their future at his Cambridge-based breeding operation once their racing days are[...]

Posted on September 20, 2020
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Hastings trainer John Bary has saddled plenty of big-race winners on home soil, but none with the shock factor of Callsign Mav’s boilover in Saturday’s Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m). Bary had previously won the season-opening Group 1 feature in 2013 with Survived, who also won the Group 3 Hawke’s Bay Gold Cup (2200m), while[...]

Posted on September 20, 2020
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Promising galloper Miss Aotearoa provided rider Craig Grylls and owner/breeder Tony Rider with a black type double at Hastings when she out-finished her age-group rivals in the Group 3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders’ Gold Trail Stakes (1200m). Successful just two races earlier with raceday debutant Shezzacatch in the Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m), the[...]

Posted on September 20, 2020
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Hastings filly Shezzacatch was thrown in at the deep end for her debut in Saturday’s Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m), and she spectacularly rose to the occasion. After a placing in a Foxton trial earlier this month, trainers Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen considered a couple of options for kicking off her racing[...]

Posted on September 20, 2020
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Local runner Perry Mason dished out a dashing display of steeplechasing as he led all the way to take out his second AHD Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase (4800m) on Saturday. The Paul Nelson and Corrina MacDougal-trained Zed gelding had been struggling to recapture his best form over the bigger fences however a return to his home[...]

Posted on September 20, 2020
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Cambridge visitor The Midnight Shift upset the applecart when he strode clear to take out the Te Whangai Romneys Hawke’s Bay Hurdle (3100m) at Hastings on Saturday. The premier hurdle event had been rescheduled from earlier in the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and with the track rated a Dead4 the race was run[...]

Posted on September 18, 2020
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Trainer Tony Pike has a host of runners at Hawke’s Bay on Saturday including exciting one-win three-year-old The Irishman, who steps straight into stakes company after continuing to please on the training track. Pike has made no secret of the high regard in which he holds the son of Tavistock, who got up in the[...]

Posted on September 18, 2020
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With runners in two stakes races, the opening day of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival at Hastings looms as a landmark moment in the short history of syndicator Savvy Racing. Proven black-type performer Pinmedown will begin a new campaign in Saturday’s Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m), while the Group 3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders Gold Trail[...]

Posted on September 18, 2020
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Alchemia could provide Katrina and Simon Alexander with a memorable milestone at Hastings on Saturday if she lives up to the promise she has shown her Matamata trainers. The daughter of Per Incanto is a one-race maiden set to take on the colts and geldings in the Listed El Roca – Sir Colin Meads Trophy[...]

Posted on September 17, 2020
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Claire Anderton will try to continue her strong start to the new season when she heads to Ashburton on Friday with a potential contender for the Group 1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m). The Wingatui trainer, who has two wins under her belt from only five runners so far in the new season,[...]

Posted on September 17, 2020
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Iconic breeding and racing personality Sir Patrick Hogan has another promising filly on his hands. Sir Patrick and his wife Justine, Lady Hogan bred and own Tavistock filly Sweet Anna, who tackles Saturday’s Group 3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) at Hastings. Prepared by Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman, Sweet Anna[...]

New Zealand Horse Racing News

Catalyst returning home to spell

Tarzino upset confirms Holmes’ instinct

Colgan eager for raceday return

Another bumper Saturday for Te Akau

Beaten brigade set their sights on Windsor Park Plate

Versatile sprinter on Railway path

Rider a happy man after dual stakes success at Hastings

Locals land massive upset in Tarzino

Miss Aotearoa too strong in Gold Trail Stakes

Local first-starter sparkles in Trophy

No mystery for Perry in Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase

Outsider takes Hurdle feature at Hastings

Pike well-armed on “transition day” at Hastings

Savvy Racing gears up for landmark day

Hastings milestone may be on cards

Promising filly kicks off at Ashburton

Sir Patrick sweet on promising filly

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