Concorde Handicap

Green Aeon delivers milestone for Mitchell

Posted on January 21, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A suggestion from jockey Sam Spratt paved the way for former Hong Kong galloper Green Aeon to deliver a milestone win for Todd Mitchell in Saturday's Group 3 Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Pukekohe. It was the first thoroughbred black-type training success for the Cambridge horseman, who is renowned internationally for his skills in the standardbred[...]

Posted on January 19, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Bonny Lass will end a frustrating last month for her connections when she lines-up in the Group 3 Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Pukekohe on Saturday. Trainers Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall were forced to scratch the mare out of the Group 1 Railway (1200m) at Te Rapa on New Year's Day after she arrived on[...]

Posted on January 25, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Speedy New Zealand mare Babylon Berlin may be given a chance to extend her distance range in next month's Group 1 BCD Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa. Babylon Berlin showed her customary speed and determination when winning the Group 3 Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday, leading all the way and holding out Festivity[...]

Posted on January 24, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Speedy mare Babylon Berlin was at her brilliant front-running best when she led all the way to take out the Group 3 Brighthill Farm Eminent First Yearlings Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie. The Ben Foote-trained daughter of All Too Hard went into the race after a third placed finish behind Entriviere and Levante in the[...]

Posted on January 6, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

An ambitious plan hatched by trainer Stephen Marsh and Bloodstock agent Dylan Johnson kicked its first goal at Tauranga on Sunday when former Australian mare Iconic Star strode clear to win the New World Te Puke 1200. Marsh and Johnson had been kicking around the idea of buying a mare from the competitive Australian market[...]

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

Five-win gelding Super Pursuit will have his first tilt at stakes level when he contests the Listed Hallmark Stud Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day. The Richard Collett-trained five-year-old has yet to finish outside the top five in his 12 career starts and he has continued his impressive form line when winning first-up over[...]

Posted on December 21, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Ruakaka trainer Kenny Rae typically heads to the South Island with a small team over the summer, but this year his hand has been forced somewhat by COVID-19 restrictions in his home region. Northland remains in the COVID-19 red traffic light setting and as a result it has lost its upcoming meeting, adding to the[...]

Posted on December 7, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The opening of the Auckland borders on December 15 can't come quickly enough for Richard Collett. The Pukekohe trainer has been stuck inside the borders for four months now, and though he's been able to send horses away to race outside the region, he said they would appreciate the return of racing to the Auckland[...]

Posted on September 10, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Saturday's Group 2 Sheraco Stakes (1200m) at Kembla Grange may not have been the starting point Entriviere's connections originally had in mind this spring, but the change of plans may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the exciting Kiwi mare. The daughter of Tavistock had previously been entered to kick off in[...]

Posted on February 24, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group One winner Julius has been retired. It's not the first time the Swiss Ace nine-year-old has entered the retirement paddock, having been forced away from the track following his third-placing in the 2018 Group 3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215m) after scans revealed he had a hole in his near fore tendon. At that point in[...]

Posted on January 24, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Classy three-year-old Need I Say More made his first run at Ellerslie a winning one when he lumped topweight of 60.5kgs to victory in the Group 3 Cambridge Stud Almanzor Trophy (1200m), the first race on Karaka Million night. Carrying the familiar tangerine and blue silks of Te Akau Racing, colours that were to the[...]

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

Shaun and Emma Clotworthy will take their Byerley Park stable into uncharted territory at Ellerslie this weekend. The couple will saddle their $14,000 yearling purchase Seven Twenty in Saturday's DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m), giving them their first taste of the lucrative juvenile sprint for graduates of New Zealand Bloodstock's yearling sales. “She's[...]

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

Underrated sprinter Its Destinys Child bounced back from an unplaced run in Group 1 company at her last start to take out the Group 3 Preferment@Brighthill Farm Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie. The Bob and Jenny Vance-trained six-year-old had won her first two starts in this campaign before tackling the sprinting elite in the Group[...]

Green Aeon delivers milestone for Mitchell

Bonny Lass set to take flight in Concorde

Options aplenty for Babylon Berlin

Babylon Berlin takes flight in Concorde

First goal in twelve-month plan ticked off by Iconic Star

Boxing Day test for Super Pursuit

Rae hoping to plunder southern summer spoils

Super summer in-store for Collett

Entriviere set for belated start to spring

Group One winner retired

Te Akau Racing to the fore on Karaka Million racenight

Clotworthys break new ground with Seven Twenty

Its Destinys Child bounces back in Ellerslie Group 3

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