Great Northern Steeplechase

Clayton Chipperfield makes New Zealand riding return

Posted on May 27, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

It's not a misprint in your racebook, former New Zealand top jumps jockey Clayton Chipperfield is dusting off his saddle and making his raceday riding return at Pukekohe on Thursday. The 41-year-old has been absent from the jockeys' room for nearly 15 years, but a change in career trajectory earlier this year has led Chipperfield[...]

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

Australian jumps features are once again beckoning Tallyho Twinkletoe. The exciting New Zealand jumper made headlines when winning the Grand National Hurdle-Steeplechase double two years ago and his connections would love to have another trip across the Tasman to watch their pride and joy. The 10-year-old gelding attempted to defend his crown last year, however,[...]

Posted on October 22, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The curtain has come down on the racing career of top jumper Wise Men Say. It was fitting that his last run was in the Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m), a race he has won on two previous occasions, however trainer Raymond Connors was hoping for a better outcome. The 11-year-old gelding misjudged a fence and[...]

Posted on October 18, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

There were thrills a plenty during the running of Saturday's ARC Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) at Ellerslie but after the dust settled it was Wanganui mare Magic Wonder who completed the prestigious Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4900m) and Great Northern Steeplechase double with a dominant front-running victory. In a race full of incidents that included three[...]

Posted on October 16, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Shaun Phelan may have missed the majority of the jumps season through injury, but he is delighted he has managed to return to raceday riding in time for the end of season features. Phelan had been sidelined after breaking his wrist when schooling a horse in June and it has been a frustrating few months[...]

Posted on October 14, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) is the pinnacle for many jumping enthusiasts, and Wanganui trainer Jo Rathbone is no different. The race holds a special place for her, having taken out the Ellerslie feature as a jockey in 2005 aboard Just The Man for trainer Davina Waddell. “That (Great Northern Steeplechase) is one of my[...]

Posted on October 5, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The winners of the two jumping features at Ellerslie smashed the existing track record on their way to convincing victories in their respective events on Sunday. Whanganui chaser Magic Wonder now looms as a major hope in the famed Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) in a fortnight after comfortably accounting for her rivals in Sunday's CLC[...]

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

In a thrilling finish to the day's second feature jumping event, Waverley visitor It's A Wonder fought back in the final few strides to down South Island raider Delacroix in the Signature Homes Waikato Steeplechase (3900m). The pair were locked together over the final two fences and just as Delacroix looked to have the upper[...]

Posted on September 10, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Talented jumper Jackfrost may not be lost to racing just yet. The recently crowned New Zealand Champion Jumper was all but retired after injuring a suspensory ligament when campaigning in Australia earlier this year, but there are positive signs after recent stem cell therapy. “He's had a stem cell plant done,” said Brian Anderton, who[...]

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

Wise Men Say added his name to the Ellerslie record books when he took out one of the world's iconic jumping races, the Network Visuals Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m), for the second time on Saturday. The ten-year-old, who had won the race in 2017, adopted tearaway tactics as he led from go to whoa to[...]

Posted on September 6, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Fledgling trainer Samantha Logan will hunt her first Network Visuals Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) win at Ellerslie on Saturday but don't presume this has been anything but meticulously planned. Logan, a daughter of leading trainer Donna Logan and her late husband and training partner Dean, has been training professionally for just four years but the[...]

Clayton Chipperfield makes New Zealand riding return

Tallyho Twinkletoe pleasing ahead of jumps return

Wise Men Say retired

Spectacular scenes during famous Ellerslie steeplechase

Better late than never

Northern spoils beckon Rathbone

Records smashed in Ellerslie jumping features

Thrilling finish to Waikato Steeplechase

Possible return for Champion Jumper

Wise Men Say takes second victory in Ellerslie’s great race

Northern win in Logan’s sights

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