Gino Severini

Hastings feature still in the mix for experienced traveller

Posted on September 22, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A quick back-up into the second day of the Hawke's Bay spring carnival hasn't been ruled out for the widely travelled Gino Severini. The multiple stakes winner holds a nomination for the Group 1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m) on October 1 with a decision on a road trip to Hastings to be made after he[...]

Posted on June 15, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A battered and bruised Andrew Calder remains in good spirits after suffering multiple injuries, but with no long-lasting damage, in a nasty fall at Ruakaka on Saturday. The New Zealand jockey was airlifted to Whangarei Hospital after he had parted company with his mount Lady Deb in Saturday's two-year-old contest. “I've got some stable fractures[...]

Posted on March 27, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Underrated galloper Gino Severini provided a fitting tribute to his part-owner, the late Ray Wallace, when he produced a fighting performance to take out the Group 2 Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m) at Tauranga on Saturday. One of the most familiar names in the New Zealand training ranks for over forty years, Wallace passed away[...]

Posted on October 12, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

As Callsign Mav heads to the Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) and Prise de Fer looks toward the Group 1 Livamol Classic (2040m), another of the major players in the Hawke's Bay spring features has headed to the paddock. Gino Severini has been one of the best horses this spring, running three times at weight-for-age[...]

Posted on September 4, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Punters who thought Saturday's Group 2 Valachi Downs Foxbridge Plate (1200m) was a two-horse race between last year's winner and heavily backed favourite Avantage and Taranaki visitor Tavi Mac were given a lesson in the vagaries of racing as the Team Rogerson-trained Mascarpone upset the applecart in the Te Rapa feature. The five-year-old son of[...]

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

Gino Severini will be looking to end his season on a high when he lines-up in the Group 2 Manco Easter Handicap (1600m) at Ellerslie on Saturday. The Bruce Wallace and Grant Cooksley-trained gelding has been in consistent form this season, placing in five of his nine starts, and winning the Group 3 Eagle Technology[...]

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

Ellerslie's Karaka Million features are among the few major New Zealand races missing from the CV of top jockey Leith Innes, and he's hoping star three-year-old Aegon can change that this weekend. Innes has ridden over 1500 winners, including 30 at Group 1 level – most recently aboard Aegon in the New Zealand 2000 Guineas[...]

Posted on December 25, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Grant Cooksley has already twice helped Auckland trainer Bruce Wallace to win the race that has now become the Group 1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie. Cooksley guided the Wallace-trained Star Dancer to win the race in 1995 when it was named the Auckland Classic and the following year when it was run[...]

Posted on December 1, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A stint on the sidelines last season appears to have done jockey Michael McNab the world of good. The Waikato-based hoop rode a winning stakes double at Ellerslie on Saturday, bringing his stakes tally for the season to three, equaling his haul from last term. His winning rides came courtesy of the Tony Pike-trained Tellall[...]

Posted on November 29, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

It took every metre of the Ellerslie home straight for consistent galloper Gino Severini to finally gain the upper hand over his rivals as he captured his first stakes victory in the Group 3 Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m). The Bruce Wallace and Grant Cooksley-trained seven-year-old had finished in the minor placings in each of his[...]

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

Proven international jockey Grant Cooksley tasted success of a different kind at Ruakaka on Sunday when saddling up his first two winners as a trainer. Cooksley gained his trainers' license in late March to go into partnership with Bruce Wallace and he produced Splendido and Havana Heat to win, while Badea (his other runner at[...]

Hastings feature still in the mix for experienced traveller

Calder counting himself lucky after fall

Memories of training legend to the fore at Tauranga

Well-deserved break for Gino Severini

Mascarpone gets the cream in Foxbridge Plate

Gino Severini hunting for late Easter treat

Aegon heads quality Karaka Million book for Innes

Cooksley shoots for another Zabeel Classic triumph

Revitalised McNab in purple patch

Late burst secures Ellerslie feature for Gino Severini

Double for Cooksley as trainer

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