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Rocket Spade delivers Guineas repeat

Posted on January 2, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Owners Hermitage Thoroughbreds and trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott have gone back-to-back, scoring their second consecutive victory in the Group 2 SkyCity Auckland Guineas (1600m) at Ellerslie on Friday. The combination captured last year’s edition of the three-year-old feature with Dragon Leap, and have struck Guineas gold again 12 months later with Rocket Spade.[...]

Posted on December 7, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Leading South Island apprentice Kozzi Asano wasted no time in registering his first win for Matamata trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott when he guided Spring Heat to an impressive victory at Ellerslie on Saturday. Asano, who is indentured to trainer Andrew Carston at Riccarton, has moved north for a few months to spend time[...]

Posted on November 6, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1 performer Spring Heat will step out for the first time since winning the Group 3 Haunui Farm King’s Plate (1200m) in February when she lines-up in the Listed Legacy Lodge Sprint (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. The daughter of More Than Ready has had two unplaced trials this preparation and her connections[...]

Posted on October 30, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Matamata training partners Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott will have just the two runners at Pukekohe on Saturday, headed by resuming speedster Princess Rihanna. The daughter of Showcasing has four wins to her name, a Group 3 placing in the Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) as a three-year-old and the short-course mare has had two trials[...]

Posted on October 12, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Lance O’Sullivan was beaming after former top juvenile Summer Passage made a welcome return to the winner’s enclosure at Matamata on Saturday, when striding clear in a rating 74 1200m contest. O’Sullivan, who prepares the Snitzel gelding in partnership with Andrew Scott, was brimming with confidence before the race having labelled the former top[...]

Posted on October 9, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Champion jockey Opie Bosson is confident his season can kick into gear when he takes seven rides at Matamata on Saturday. The star hoop has taken longer than he would like to shed the last few kilos to get him back to racing trim following a winter break. But after 19 rides for three winners[...]

Posted on September 9, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Lance O’Sullivan, who trains in partnership with Andrew Scott, was pleased with the fresh-up run of quality four-year-old Dragon Leap, who finished 8th in the Group 2 Tramway Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday. The son of Pierro was only two lengths from the winner Dreamforce and will derive plenty of benefit from the hit-out.[...]

Posted on August 27, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Talented four-year-old Dragon Leap will travel to Sydney on Monday as he looks to target spring riches. The Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott-trained galloper won twice at Group 2 level as a three-year-old and finished fourth in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m). The lightly-tried gelding is expected to be best suited to a[...]

Posted on August 12, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

There was an echoed sigh of relief in Waikato Monday with a handful of trainers receiving travel exemptions for their staff to fly to Australia. Cambridge trainer Tony Pike, who also heads the New Zealand Trainers’ Association, was one of the recipients of the good news and he has already booked flights for two of[...]

Posted on August 4, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Quality gallopers Charles Road and Dragon Leap are making good progress ahead of their spring campaigns. Lucrative Sydney targets are high on the agenda for the duo should COVID-19 immigration challenges to enable staff to travel from New Zealand to Australia be overcome. “Charles Road and Dragon Leap are both in the same boat, we’re[...]

Posted on June 2, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Popular Japanese-born apprentice Taiki Yanagida has been working hard on his fitness as the countdown continues to the resumption of thoroughbred racing in New Zealand. Yanagida, who sits in the top twenty on the National Jockey’s Premiership with 37 wins for the season, is happy with his base level of fitness however when it comes[...]

Posted on June 1, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

One of the hottest prospects amongst the ultra-competitive Victorian riding ranks continued to put his name in the headlines when he guided the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Heptagon to victory at Caulfield on Saturday. New Zealand born and raised apprentice rider Lewis German has taken the opportunities that have come his way of[...]

Posted on April 28, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The Matamata stable of Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott is preparing to welcome 25 to 30 horses back into the stable over the coming week, with boom three-year-old Dragon Leap not far away from a return to training. If there is a silver-lining to the lockdown period, O’Sullivan believes the additional time to mature for[...]

Posted on March 6, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Former champion jockey Lance O’Sullivan will never forget his first ride in the Group 1 W.S. Cox Plate (2040m) and neither will racing fans throughout New Zealand and Australia. As this year’s Cox Plate trophy begins a week-long New Zealand tour (starting on Auckland Cup day at Ellerslie on Saturday), it’s certain the most discussed[...]

Posted on March 1, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Despite being upstaged by a superb staying performance by Sherwood Forest in Saturday’s Group 1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m), the connections of beaten favourites Two Illicit and Dragon Leap were proud of their performances. The Ellerslie classic had been billed as a two-horse showdown, and after two weeks of hype and speculation, Two Illicit[...]

Posted on February 29, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Lightly raced mare Spring Heat finally delivered on her undoubted promise when she produced a barnstorming finish to capture the Group 3 Haunui Farm King’s Plate (1200m) at Ellerslie. The More Than Ready five-year-old came into the race off the back of a placing at the highest level after finishing third to Avantage in the[...]

Posted on February 26, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The impressive Dragon Leap gives New Zealand Racing Hall of Famer Lance O’Sullivan a great opportunity to add another notable achievement to his CV at Ellerslie on Saturday. O’Sullivan has won the Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) on two occasions as a jockey, first with Surfers Paradise in 1990 then three years later with[...]

Rocket Spade delivers Guineas repeat

Asano quickly off the mark in northern stint

Wexford bringing the heat to Te Rapa

Princess Rihanna ready for Pukekohe sprint

O’Sullivan gains satisfaction from sprint victory

Bosson excited by Matamata prospects

Dragon Leap bounces through fresh-up assignment

Dragon ready to leap the Tasman

Kiwis given clearance to fly

Wexford team building with Sydney ambitions

Apprentice working hard for raceday return

Young apprentice making waves in tough environment

O’Sullivan looking forward to Dragon taking Leap

Unforgettable Cox Plates for O’Sullivan

No disappointment among beaten Derby favourites

Spring Heat delivers in King’s Plate

Dragon to leap Lance into Derby history

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