Hunta Pence

Campbell hoping to set Cup record straight

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

New Zealand trainer Patrick Campbell has unfinished business with Saturday's Listed Power Farming Hawke's Bay Cup (2200m) on his home track of Hastings. Campbell has targeted the race on several occasions but has come up empty-handed so far, a record he'd love to set straight with topweight Hunta Pence this weekend. “It's been a horrible[...]

Posted on December 31, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A NZD$65,000 stake attracted a strong line-up for this year's running of the Harcourts Taupo Cup (2000m) on Thursday and Hawke's Bay trainer Patrick Campbell was delighted to take home the lion's share of the purse courtesy of his evergreen galloper Hunta Pence. The nine-year-old gelding was runner-up over 2100m at Awapuni earlier this month[...]

Posted on January 16, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Hunta Pence will be out to make it three stakes victories on-end when he contests the Group 3 Dixon & Dunlop Trentham Stakes (2100m) on Saturday. The Patrick Campbell-trained gelding was victorious in the Listed Wanganui Cup (2040m) in November before recording a nose victory in the Group 3 Manawatu Cup (2300m) at Awapuni last[...]

Posted on December 24, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

For 18 months veteran jockey Darryl Bradley was stuck on 99 career black type victories, wondering if the century would ever come up. Now, he's won three of them in seven weeks, all while maintaining his job as the track manager at Foxton racecourse. It was Mohaka who finally gave Bradley his 100th black type[...]

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

Hastings visitor Hunta Pence overcame his apparent dislike of the Awapuni track to register his biggest career victory when he took out the Group 3 Bramco Granite and Marble Manawatu Cup (2300m) in a desperate finish on Saturday. The Patrick Campbell-trained eight-year-old had failed to finish in a dividend bearing placing in ten previous trips[...]

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

Evergreen galloper Hunta Pence was rewarded for his perseverance when he took out the Listed Steelform Roofing Group Wanganui Cup (2040m) after finishing runner-up in the race in the past two years. The Patrick Campbell-trained eight-year-old had been narrowly beaten by Group 1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) winner Sentimental Miss in 2019 and had to[...]

Campbell hoping to set Cup record straight

Campbell tickled pink with Taupo Cup triumph

Hunta Pence eyeing stakes three-peat

Multiple career options working well for Bradley

Thrilling finish to Manawatu Cup

Hunta Pence gets deserved prize in Wanganui feature

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