Grant Cullen

Rider a happy man after dual stakes success at Hastings

Posted on September 21, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

If smiling were an Olympic sport, then Milan Park principal Tony Rider would most likely have had a gold medal hanging around his neck on Saturday evening. Rider was on hand at Hastings to watch two three-year-old fillies he bred and owns assure their future at his Cambridge-based breeding operation once their racing days are[...]

Posted on September 20, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Hastings filly Shezzacatch was thrown in at the deep end for her debut in Saturday’s Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m), and she spectacularly rose to the occasion. After a placing in a Foxton trial earlier this month, trainers Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen considered a couple of options for kicking off her racing[...]

Posted on May 20, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen are looking to the youth in their stable ahead of spring racing. The Hastings trainers have recently lost promising three-year-old Unlaced to Australian shores and Lowry doesn’t think she will be the last they will farewell in the next couple of months. The daughter of Niagara won two of her[...]

Posted on March 9, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen know how to shock punters, especially at Trentham, and they are hoping they can do it again on Saturday. The Hastings training partners will be represented in the Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) by the lightly tried Unlaced, a daughter of Niagara who has recorded[...]

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

The broodmare paddock is beckoning Xpression, but one final Group 1 tilt remains in the offing for the daughter of Showcasing. Xpression was covered by Snitzel earlier this season and has returned to the barn of Hastings trainers Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen to sign-off her racing career. The Group 1 performer had been campaigning[...]

Posted on October 3, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Guy Lowry has a plan to make amends for a Group 1 that got away. Lowry and training partner Grant Cullen produced Xpression as favourite for last year’s Group 1 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton but watched on as she could only manage third behind Media Sensation and Valalie. The Hastings duo have Riva Capri[...]

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

Group 1 winner Wait A Sec will make a return to stakes company at Awapuni on Saturday when he lines-up in the Group 3 Boehringer Ingelheim Metric Mile (1600m). The Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen-trained nine-year-old has been off the scene since his win in the Wairoa Cup (2100m) 18 months ago through injury. “He[...]

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

The victory of promising three-year-old filly Riva Capri in Saturday’s Listed The O’Learys Fillies Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui conjured up mixed emotions for well known bloodstock agent Bruce Perry. Perry, who selects and manages the thoroughbred interests of Wellington-based owner/breeder Lib Petagna, was thrilled to see the Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen-trained filly carry Petagna’s[...]

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

Hastings visitor Riva Capri indicated she will be a filly to watch at a higher level over the next few months after she broke her maiden status in stakes company when taking out the Listed The O’Leary’s Fillies Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui. Raced in the colours of well-known owner Lib Petagna under his JML Bloodstock[...]

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