Jason Laking

Challenging week ends in Cup triumph for Prise De Fer

Posted on April 25, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Quality New Zealand performer Prise De Fer put a week of uncertainty behind him in style at Riccarton on Saturday, taking his career earnings past NZD$500,000 with a record-breaking victory in the Group 3 Coca-Cola Canterbury Gold Cup (2000m). The Savabeel gelding’s plans had been thrown into disarray in the early part of the week[...]

Posted on April 13, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Asathought will crown herself as Queen of Southland’s stayers with success in Saturday’s Listed Carriers Arms Hotel Riverton Cup (2147m). The So You Think half-sister to multiple Group One winner Avantage has already won the Gore Cup (2000m) and the Invercargill Cup (2600m) and looks on track to complete the sweep of Southland’s feature staying[...]

Posted on March 20, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

With three premierships, countless big-race triumphs, more than NZD$30 million in prize-money and Hong Kong beckoning, Jamie Richards has come a long way since taking out his training licence in 2015 – but it was a nod to his southern roots that played a big part in landing Saturday’s Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai[...]

Posted on February 24, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Mark Jones is fast becoming a galloping convert. The highly regarded New Zealand harness racing trainer and 2003 world champion reinsman racked up the third winner of his career as a gallops trainer when Phelan The Power triumphed on a heavy track at Riccarton earlier this month. With 666 training wins in New Zealand harness[...]

Posted on January 9, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Enigmatic performer Camino Rocoso shrugged off a narrow defeat in the Greymouth Cup (2000m) on Monday to turn the tables on his conqueror that day in Bully Boy, as he took out the Vernon & Vazey Truck Parts Kumara Gold Nuggets (1810m) on Saturday. The John & Karen Parsons-trained son of Shocking, who started his[...]

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

The depth of the three-year-old talent in the Te Akau Racing team was clearly on display on Saturday, with trainer Jamie Richards producing black-type victories at both Matamata and Riccarton. Richards swept all before him last season, winning the National Trainers’ premiership with 160 wins of which 36 were at stakes level. It has been[...]

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

Canterbury jockey Jason Laking’s Covid-19 lockdown experience was a lot different to many of his contemporaries around the country. While many of New Zealand’s jockeys were confined to their own bubble for the past five weeks, unable to do much more than go on a daily run or walk to escape the confines of their[...]

Challenging week ends in Cup triumph for Prise De Fer

Invercargill mare chasing sweep of Southland Cups

Southern bonds to the fore in New Zealand Oaks triumph

Jones enjoying change of pace

Camino Rocoso strikes gold at Kumara

Richards highlights red letter day with three-year-old stakes double

Laking’s essential lockdown experience

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