Beyond The Fort

New Zealand trainer Thurlow playing waiting game with stable duo

Posted on May 22, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Bill Thurlow is playing the waiting game with a pair of his gallopers. The Waverley trainer has two horses entered for Hawera's Sunday meeting, however, with Day Light drawing the outside gate in the Wanganui-Taranaki Owners Association “Pakaraka star” Maiden (2000m) and Darlington County being the first emergency for the Transag “Our Paddy Boy” Maiden[...]

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

The rekindled career of star stayer Glory Days will be put to the test in the Group 1 Livamol Classic (2040m) at Hastings on Saturday. The winner of last year's Group 1 Auckland Cup (3200m) and placed in the Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m), the Red Giant mare was retired after finishing outside the placings[...]

Posted on September 10, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) dream is still alive for Group 1-winning stayer Glory Days and her connections. The pride of Waverley will be at odds greater than the Taranaki township's favourite son, 1983 Melbourne Cup winner Kiwi, of making the race, but trainer Bill Thurlow has taken the ‘you have got to be[...]

Posted on August 19, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1-winning mare Glory Days returned from retirement at the Foxton trials on Tuesday where she finished fourth in her 1000m heat. The Bill Thurlow-trained eight-year-old failed to fire after returning from her spring campaign in Melbourne last spring and was subsequently retired after her fourth-placing in the Listed New Zealand St Leger (2600m) at[...]

Posted on November 15, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Kiwi, Glory Days…Beyond The Fort? It may be too early to mention the latter in the same breath as the two Group 1-winning stayers, but the small South Taranaki township of Waverley has developed a knack for producing Group 1 stayers. The Snow Lupton-trained Kiwi put Waverley on the map after storming home late to[...]

Posted on July 30, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1-winning stayer Glory Days made a pleasing return to the track at the Foxton trials on Tuesday in preparation for a Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) campaign this spring. The pride of Waverley finished unplaced in her 1000m heat, but pleased trainer Bill Thurlow with her efforts. “I was happy with her, she went[...]

New Zealand trainer Thurlow playing waiting game with stable duo

Glory Days on track for Livamol

Cup dream stays alive

Glory Days returns

Waverley Cup to launch another Group 1 bid

Thurlow aiming for Melbourne glory

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