Captain Cook Stakes

Belle a late entry for Livamol Classic

Posted on October 14, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Star mare Melody Belle, who was named New Zealand Horse of the Year for the second year in succession on Sunday night, will be out to land her 12th Group 1 victory when she contests the Livamol Classic (2040m) at Hastings on Saturday. Connections have paid a late-entry to supplement the Jamie Richards-trained mare for[...]

Posted on June 23, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1-winning miler Wyndspelle will take up stud duties at Grangewilliam Stud in South Taranaki this spring where he will stand for a fee of $7,500 plus GST. A son of Iffraaj, Wyndspelle competed in top-flight races across five seasons, performing with distinction in both Australia and New Zealand. Prepared by Johno Benner and Hollie[...]

Posted on February 5, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1 winning miler Wyndspelle has been retired after suffering an injury while preparing for a tilt at the Group 1 Haunui Farm WFA Classic (1600m) later this month. Prepared at Otaki by Johno Benner and Hollie Wynyard through the latter half of his career, Wyndspelle was a model of consistency, netting connections close to[...]

Posted on December 9, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Supera ran her race before the Group 1 Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday. That’s the summation of Ken Kelso, who trains the daughter of Savabeel with wife Bev. The five-year-old mare was heading into the race off a last-start victory in the Group 2 Tauranga Stakes (1600m) and was duly installed an[...]

Posted on December 8, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

As she waited to board a plane home from Wellington airport on Sunday afternoon, well-known bloodstock agent and racing identity Jen Campin was trying to work out just how she was going to answer the hundreds of congratulatory messages she had received after her favourite ‘cruisy dude’, Wyndspelle, finally broke his Group 1 maiden status.[...]

Posted on December 7, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A perennial bridesmaid at the highest level, consistent galloper Wyndspelle finally cracked a maiden Group 1 triumph when he took out the Group 1 Rydges Wellington Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) in fine style at Trentham. No-one could deny the six-year-old Iffraaj entire deserved a second win in stakes company following his Group 2 Waikato Guineas[...]

Posted on December 4, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman will be hoping 10 is their lucky number this weekend. The Cambridge training partnership have drawn the outside gate with Unition and True Enough in their respective 10-horse stakes fields at Trentham on Saturday and they believe they will need every ounce of luck they can get with those gates.[...]

Posted on December 4, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

High-class mare Supera is likely to start a short-priced favourite to win her maiden Group One when she contests the Rydges Wellington Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained five-year-old has compiled an impressive CV, with seven wins and four minor placings from just 15 starts. The patiently handled[...]

Belle a late entry for Livamol Classic

Wyndspelle to stand at Grangewilliam Stud

Group 1 entire Wyndspelle retired

Temperament gets the better of Supera

Campin on cloud nine

Wyndspelle gets elusive Group 1 victory

Visitor draws for Cambridge duo

Supera set to peak in Captain Cook

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