Lance O’Sullivan

St Leger to dictate Sir Charles Road’s spring

Posted on October 18, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Saturday's A$500,000 St Leger Stakes (2600m) at Randwick could have a major bearing on the 2019 spring campaign for well-performed New Zealand stayer Sir Charles Road. A highly creditable seventh in the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) last November, Sir Charles Road is currently 43rd in the order of entry for this year's running of[...]

Posted on September 19, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A return to middle distance racing has Matamata trainers Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott confident that Charles Road can produce an improved performance two weeks out from his main Sydney spring target. The Myboycharlie six-year-old, Charles Road, who races as Sir Charles Road in Australia, steps up to 2000m in Saturday's Group 3 Kingston Town[...]

Posted on August 15, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Lance O'Sullivan, who trains in partnership with Andrew Scott, has little expectation of his talented stayer Charles Road as he lights a fuse on another Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) campaign in Sydney on Saturday. The Matamata trainer is delighted with Charles Road's progress ahead of the Spring Preview Handicap (1400m) at Randwick's Kensington track[...]

Posted on July 28, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Sydney Cup placegetter Sir Charles Road is in Sydney to be prepared for a spring campaign aimed at the Melbourne Cup. Trained by Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott, the New Zealand stayer will bypass the Hastings spring carnival to concentrate on Australia starting with a 1400m-race at Randwick on August 17. Owner David Archer said[...]

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

Pencarrow Stud's decision to bring a broodmare out of retirement has been spectacularly rewarded by the dual black-type winner Sleeping Beauty. The Rip Van Winkle six-year-old mastered the gruelling conditions for a dominant victory in Saturday's Listed Ultimate Ford and Mazda Tauranga Classic (1400m), having also taken out the Group 3 Rotorua Stakes (1400m) at[...]

Posted on June 22, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Class performer Sleeping Beauty underlined her credentials on the deep winter tracks when she out- toughed her female rivals to take out the Listed Ultimate Ford and Mazda Tauranga Classic (1400m) under weight-for-age conditions at Tauranga on Saturday. The six-year-old Rip Van Winkle mare has fashioned an impeccable record on wet tracks having now won[...]

Posted on June 19, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Promising Waikato apprentice Taiki Yanagida will return to raceday riding at Counties on Thursday after being on the sidelines for a couple of months after a trackwork incident. “I got injured when riding track work,” he said. “The horse shifted towards the fence and my ankle went against the fence and just snapped.” It has[...]

Posted on June 12, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Matamata trainer Lance O'Sullivan has a small winter team in work but is hoping classy mare Sleeping Beauty can add to her black-type portfolio over the coming months, with the potential to target a Group 1 early in the new season. The six-year-old daughter of Rip Van Winkle has won nine of her 22 starts,[...]

Posted on May 11, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Consistent mare Sleeping Beauty finally got the major race win she deserved when she took out the Group 3 ISCL Rotorua Stakes (1400m) on Saturday. The Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott-trained six-year-old has proven a model of consistency throughout her career, having finished inside the top three in two-thirds of her 21 career starts before[...]

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