Jennifer Eccles

Dream day at Te Rapa for Rip Van Winkle

Posted on February 10, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Windsor Park Stud's young guns have dominated the limelight in recent times with first-season sire titles for Shamexpress and Charm Spirit, but Saturday was all about Rip Van Winkle. The Te Rapa meeting delivered the biggest day of the Galileo stallion's career. Te Akau Shark became his first southern hemisphere Group 1 winner with a[...]

Posted on February 8, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A picture-perfect ride from Jason Waddell allowed class act Jennifer Eccles to show her undoubted quality as she dashed away from her age-group rivals to take out the Group 2 David & Karyn Ellis Fillies Classic (2000m) at Te Rapa. Touted as a match race between the Shaune Ritchie-trained three-year-old and her Group 1 New[...]

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

Shaune Ritchie came close to a big double at Trentham on Saturday, but left the meeting knowing his smart filly Jennifer Eccles is still on the right path for a return trip to the course in March to contest the Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m). Following on from her win[...]

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

A copybook ride by Opie Bosson paved the way for promising filly Showbeel to add a valuable black type success to her career record when she took out the first feature race at Trentham on Saturday, the Group 3 New Zealand Bloodstock Desert Gold Stakes (1600m). The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained three-year-old had finished[...]

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

Bargain filly Jennifer Eccles will be out to maintain her lead in the lucrative New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series when she contests Saturday's Group 3 New Zealand Bloodstock Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) at Trentham. The Shaune Rtichie-trained filly shed the tag of New Zealand's best maiden when winning the Group 2 Eight[...]

Posted on December 26, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

What a difference a year makes. Expat New Zealand jockey James McDonald rode True Enough to victory in the Thames Cup (1600m) in January and nearly a year later he reunited with the six-year-old gelding to record a Group 1 victory in the Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day. McDonald was[...]

Posted on December 26, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The tag of New Zealand's best maiden was emphatically stripped from the shoulders of exciting three-year-old Jennifer Eccles when she stormed past her female age group rivals to take out the Group 2 SKYCITY Eight Carat Classic (1600m) in the hands of visiting rider James McDonald. Although she had yet to salute the judge in[...]

Posted on November 18, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Shaune Ritchie is going from chasing Group 1 glory at Riccarton on Saturday to attempting to win the longest flat race. The Cambridge trainer was seeking his first Group 1 gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) win and just came up short with Jennifer Eccles, finishing a long neck second to the Tony Pike-trained Loire,[...]

Posted on September 2, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainer Shaune Ritchie is taking a positive attitude about his day at the office on Saturday despite suffering the frustration of having all four of his stable runners finish in the money without actually winning a race on the day. At Hastings promising three-year-old filly Jennifer Eccles looked to have scored a superb victory[...]

Posted on August 31, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Progressive three-year-old Kali maintained her unbeaten record at Hastings on Saturday but not without high drama as the Tony Pike-trained filly secured her second victory courtesy of a successful protest against fellow Cambridge visitor Jennifer Eccles in the Taupo Pak'nSave Fillies 1100. The Shaune Ritchie-trained Jennifer Eccles was first past the post after producing a[...]

Posted on August 29, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainer Shaune Ritchie is delighted with the way his five-year-old stayer The Good Fight has settled into Sydney life and believes Saturday's Nathan's Famous Handicap (2000m) is the perfect race to get the ball rolling across the Tasman. “He is great, he has settled in really well,” Ritchie said. “He didn't have a sweat[...]

Posted on July 1, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Shaune Ritchie is hoping an annual winter stopover in Ruakaka will pave the way for an elusive win in the Group 1 Gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton in November. Each year the Cambridge trainer sends a team of horses north to further their preparations for spring campaigns and he already has the[...]

Dream day at Te Rapa for Rip Van Winkle

Plenty of love for Jennifer Eccles

Ritchie close but no cigar

Bosson nails first Trentham feature on Showbeel

Jennifer set for more Gold

McDonald True Enough in Zabeel Classic

Classy filly sheds maiden status in style

From Group 1 to unique Australian event

Ritchie puts positive spin on day of frustration

Kali remains unbeaten at Hastings

Ritchie ready to put up a Good Fight

Ruakaka vital in Ritchie’s Guineas mission

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