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New Zealand trainer Clotworthy enjoying Queensland escape

Posted on May 29, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Leaving the husband at home to look after the kids while you head to Queensland for a few weeks probably sounds enticing to a lot of Kiwi women at the moment. That dream has turned into a reality for New Zealand trainer Emma Clotworthy, who has been enjoying the warmer climate of the Sunshine State[...]

Posted on May 3, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Hezashocka will likely get his chance at Derby glory after his last start heroics. The Shaun and Emma Clotworthy-trained gelding was victorious in the Group 2 Championship Stakes (2100m) at just his third start at Ellerslie late last month and now he is in line to contest the Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m). “Hezashocka has[...]

Posted on April 26, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Shaun Clotworthy may have got the last laugh over wife and training partner Emma when strapping three-year-old Hezashocka upset the applecart at Ellerslie on Saturday with his win in the Group 2 Trelawney Stud Championship Stakes (2100m). Clotworthy had just bought the son of Rich Hill Stud resident stallion Shocking for $18,000 from the Grangewilliam[...]

Posted on April 25, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Legendary former Ellerslie commentator Keith Haub savoured one of the highlights of his long career in racing when Hezashocka scored a stunning upset in Saturday’s Group 2 Trelawney Stud Championship Stakes (2100m) at Ellerslie. An iconic voice of the Auckland track for more than two decades until his retirement in 2004, Haub has also celebrated[...]

Posted on April 23, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Andrew Forsman has only just returned to New Zealand after overseeing the final preparations of his team competing in The Championships in Sydney, but he is hoping it won’t be too long until he is back across the Tasman. Forsman and training partner Murray Baker will have a strong contingent at Ellerslie on Saturday, including[...]

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

The ease of Beauden’s last-start win in the Group 2 Awapuni Gold Cup (2000m) even surprised his biggest fan, jockey Ryan Elliot. Not because Elliot didn’t think the six-year-old Bullbars gelding was capable of producing such a compelling performance but because he did it on a track wetter than he prefers. Elliot heads to Riccarton[...]

New Zealand trainer Clotworthy enjoying Queensland escape

Queensland Derby tilt likely for Hezashocka

Stakes winner no shock for Clotworthy

Hezashocka stars for Haub

Queensland campaign in the offing for exciting three-year-olds

Elliot prepared for another Beauden blitz

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