Foxbridge Plate

Travelling Light on target for Te Rapa feature

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

Outstanding three-year-old Travelling Light will head to Ruakaka next week as she continues her preparation for a raceday return in early September. Trainer Ben Foote is delighted with the El Roca filly, who won five of her seven starts in her first campaign including the Group 1 Levin Classic (1600m) and will use the trip[...]

Posted on August 18, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Last season's Group 1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) winner Sentimental Miss passed the first test of an abbreviated spring campaign when she flashed home to finish close-up behind the placegetters in Saturday's Group 2 US Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa. The Go Racing Yesteryear Syndicate-owned four-year-old showed she was well on target[...]

Posted on August 18, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Te Akau Shark remains on target to travel to Sydney despite his defeat in the Foxbridge Plate at Te Rapa. The Epsom Handicap favourite, named for Cronulla Sharks NRL captain Paul Gallen, finished second to Endless Drama in Saturday's Group Two sprint in New Zealand after circling the field from near last on the turn.[...]

Posted on August 17, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Fireworks were expected at Te Rapa on Saturday as several of last season's equine stars kicked off their new spring campaigns in the Group 2 US Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate (1200m) and it was recent Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) placegetter Endless Drama who delivered with a stunning victory. The Tony Pike-trained eight-year-old had been[...]

Posted on August 16, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Debbie Rogerson is trusting race fitness to give Malambo and Comeback their edge as they prepare to face the stars of Saturday's Group 2 US Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa. The Hamilton trainer is happy with both Team Rogerson's runners for the weight-for-age sprint which has attracted five Group 1 winners. TAB[...]

Posted on August 16, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Epsom Handicap favourite Te Akau Shark and his stablemate and New Zealand Horse of the Year elect, Melody Belle, face off in the Foxbridge Plate at Te Rapa Melody Belle won the 1200m-Group Two race last season during which she added five Group One wins to her Sires' Produce Stakes victory of April 2017. Te[...]

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

Melody Belle will attempt to defend her title in the Group 2 U S Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. The six-time Group 1 winner provided Jamie Richards with his first stakes win as sole Te Akau trainer in the race last season after an inch-perfect ride by Shafiq Rusof. Richards[...]

Posted on August 14, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The track conditions at Te Rapa on Saturday are the only concern Cambridge trainer Tony Pike holds for Endless Drama heading into his first assignment of the season, the Group 2 U S Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate (1200m). Rated a Heavy10 surface on Wednesday, Pike said it is a bit of an unknown whether the[...]

Posted on August 13, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Progressive galloper Helena Baby faces his toughest assignment to date when he tackles a star-studded field in the Group 2 U S Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. But trainer John Bell has full confidence in his lightly-tried five-year-old as he attempts to go one better than stablemate Julius, who was[...]

Posted on August 11, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Class mare Consensus will have her first run of the new season in Saturday's Group 2 US Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate (1200m) as she kicks off a campaign that could see her contest the Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley in October. The eight-year-old Postponed mare has made steady progress since returning to[...]

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

The training triumvirate of Graeme, Debbie and Bailey Rogerson kicked the new racing season off in style at Te Rapa on Saturday when they dominated the early proceedings at the meeting. The trio provided the quinella in the third race on the programme when accomplished mare Malambo proved too speedy for stablemate Comeback as she[...]

Posted on August 1, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Hamilton trainer Graeme Rogerson's hand in this month's Group 2 US Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa will become clearer after Saturday when he will line-up race hopefuls Comeback and Malambo. Rogerson and his training partners Debbie and Bailey Rogerson will produce four runners in the US Navy Flag Foxbridge Plate 17 Aug[...]

Posted on July 29, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1 performer Endless Drama is being set to tackle some early black-type targets in the new season after impressing with his effortless 900m trial win at Te Rapa on Monday. The rising seven-year-old entire resumed after a pleasing last start third-placing in the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm last month and[...]

Posted on July 23, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The John Bell-trained Helena Baby has been the star find of winter racing in New Zealand, with Saturday's Listed Opunake Cup (1400m) triumph his most significant to date. The four-year-old gelded son of Guillotine romped home to an easy five and a half-length victory at Taranaki dishing out a galloping lesson to his more seasoned[...]

Posted on July 21, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Progressive galloper Helena Baby took the next step in his burgeoning career in stunning fashion when he simply decimated his rivals in Saturday's Listed Powerworx Opunake Cup (1400m) at New Plymouth. Most pundits were expecting the four-year-old Guillotine gelding to prove competitive in his first crack in open company but none could have predicted the[...]

Posted on July 16, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Reigning New Zealand Horse of the Year, Melody Belle, resumed at the Te Rapa trials on Monday with a close-up third over 900m behind stablemate Ritzy Sparkle for trainer Jamie Richards. Ridden by Troy Harris, the performance pleased connections as the six-time Group 1 winner returns to fitness ahead of a spring campaign that will[...]

Posted on July 14, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

It may be a far cry from the sunshine and 35-degree heat he is currently enjoying on a well-deserved Hawaiian holiday, but you can be sure that Te Akau Racing's Jamie Richards will have an eye on Monday's Te Rapa trials where the first of the spring horses go through their paces. Te Akau Racing[...]

Travelling Light on target for Te Rapa feature

Australian Group 1 target for Sentimental Miss

Te Akau Shark On Target For Sydney

Endless Drama takes Foxbridge Plate

Fitness the key to Foxbridge upset for Rogerson pair

Te Akau Shark, Melody Belle Showdown

Te Akau duo to go head-to-head at Te Rapa

Track quandary for Endless Drama

Helena Baby seeks stable revenge in Foxbridge

Consensus on target for Cox Plate mission

Team Rogerson in dominant form at Te Rapa

Comeback, Malambo spearhead 20-strong Rogerson entry

Early season assignments for Endless Drama

Helena Baby from well-known Windsor family

Helena Baby takes Opunake Cup

Te Akau stars trial to script

Te Akau firepower out in force at Te Rapa trials

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