Kozzi Asano

Cleverconversation out to advance Ruakaka record

Posted on June 30, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand course specialist Cleverconversation will take another step at Ruakaka on Saturday toward his season’s goal on a return trip to the Far North later this month. The well-related son of Thewayyouare will step out in the Northpine Waipu Cup – ITM/GIB Sprinters’ Winter Championship Qualifying Race (1400m) ahead of the NZD$60,000 series final[...]

Posted on March 27, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Kelvin Tyler cut a satisfied figure at Riccarton on Saturday after Tobilicious made a return to winning form following twelve months off the scene due to a suspensory injury suffered when finishing fourth behind Melody Belle in the Group 1 Thorndon Mile (1600m) at Trentham in January last year. The grey six-year-old gelding had[...]

Posted on March 1, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman will be represented by a trio of Group 1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) contenders at Ellerslie this weekend with White Noise given the nod as their top seed. The Cambridge trainers will be chasing their third victory in Saturday’s feature, having prepared Mongolian Khan to triumph in 2015 and[...]

Posted on February 6, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A nasty slip on the home turn that saw rider Bridget Grylls part company with her mount Madam Sass has resulted in the abandonment of racing at New Plymouth (New Zealand) on Saturday after just one race. Persistent rain throughout the morning led to the deteriorating track conditions and after the Grylls tumble, in which[...]

Posted on January 4, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

When a legend of the New Zealand riding ranks tells you he has seen a ride from a four-kilogram claiming apprentice that would not be bettered by the best in the business, then it pays to take notice. That was the acknowledgement that Hall Of Fame jockey-turned trainer Lance O’Sullivan made regarding his apprentice Yuto[...]

Posted on December 22, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard will have numbers and class in their favour for the Group 1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) on Boxing Day. The Matamata training partnership is set to have three runners in the weight-for-age contest at Ellerslie, with two of them – Harlech and Sound – both looking like solid chances.[...]

Posted on December 7, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Leading apprentice jockey Kozzi Asano has decided to head north to Cambridge for the summer and if everything goes to plan it could be a permanent move. Previously based in Christchurch with Riccarton trainer Andrew Carston, Asano has had a couple of previous stints in the north, including a few months in Matamata at Wexford[...]

Posted on November 5, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is confident strapping chestnut Field Of Gold can be in the thick end of the prizemoney in Saturday’s Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m). The gelded son of Starspangledbanner has drifted to with the bookmakers for the Riccarton feature in a market headed by Noverre ()[...]

Posted on October 18, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Visiting Cambridge filly There You Go firmed into the clear favourite for next month’s Group 1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton after dominating her rivals in the Group 3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton. The Tony Pike-trained daughter of Niagara had turned plenty of heads when she broke her maiden[...]

Posted on October 5, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Apprentice jockey Kozzi Asano charged up the leading jockeys’ table when landing five winners at Riccarton on Saturday, with his tally of 14 victories for the season placing him third on the premiership behind Lisa Allpress (19) and Michael McNab (16). The 26-year-old, who has come from relative obscurity just a matter of seasons ago,[...]

Posted on October 3, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike took a big team south to Riccarton on Saturday and dominated proceedings, winning five of the 11 races on the day. Fresh off producing a pair of impressive maiden three-year-old winners at Te Rapa on Friday in The Landing and Pareanui Bay, Pike unleashed more of his stable firepower at Riccarton[...]

Posted on September 19, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Awapuni galloper Wakari upset all predictions when he held out hot favourite I Wish I Win to take out the Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) at Hastings. Punters had disregarded the chances of the three-year-old son of Vespa after he could only manage second in rating 65 company first-up at Hawera when expected[...]

Posted on August 8, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Scenes of unbridled joy and celebration broke out on the Riccarton public lawn shortly after outsider Ritani () took out the 124th running of the Group 3 Winning Edge Presentations Winter Cup (1600m) on Saturday. Friends, family and connections of the Kerry and Ian Taplin-trained seven-year-old Makfi mare were besides themselves as rider Kozzi Asano[...]

Posted on August 2, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Stephen Marsh cut a relieved figure after gritty mare El Noir finally broke through for the win she had been promising of late, when taking out a rating 65 1200m contest at Te Aroha on Sunday. The five-year-old daughter of El Roca had finished second in four of her five attempts in this campaign[...]

Posted on July 20, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Catching National Apprentice Jockey Premiership leader Hazel Schofer may be a bridge too far for Kozzi Asano, but he is going to give it a good crack over the next two weeks. The leading South Island apprentice currently trails his Taranaki-based adversary by 11 wins after he recorded a winning double at Ruakaka on Saturday,[...]

Posted on June 23, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand jockey Kozzi Asano isn’t holding out much hope of defending his national champion apprentice title but with five weeks of the season remaining, he has returned from injury and intends giving it his best shot. The Christchurch-based Japanese apprentice had the upper hand in an engaging apprentice premiership battle with Taranaki jockey Hazel[...]

Posted on May 10, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A spate of incidents over the weekend of racing in New Zealand has resulted in a number of jockeys joining the injury list, with a couple having an enforced winter hiatus. On Sunday, leading Central Districts jockey Lisa Allpress was involved in an incident in the starting gates where she sustained a head knock after[...]

Cleverconversation out to advance Ruakaka record

Satisfying return from injury for Tobilicious

White Noise heads stable’s Derby attack

New Plymouth meeting abandoned after first race

Japanese apprentice receives high praise after Tauranga victory

Three-pronged attack on Zabeel Classic for Ballymore

Northern summer sojourn for Asano

Pike searching for Guineas Gold

There You Go rockets to 1000 Guineas favouritism

Asano continues upward trajectory

Pike and Asano dominate at Riccarton

Wakari upsets favourites at Hastings

Ritani upsets in Winter Cup

El Noir sheds bridesmaid tag with gritty Te Aroha victory

Asano continues to chase Schofer for premiership

Rejuvenated Asano excited for raceday return at Timaru

New Zealand jockeys sidelined following weekend incidents

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