Les Crayeres

Levante on-target for fruitful campaign

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

Class mare Levante didn’t surprise anyone by winning a 1000m trial at Matamata last week, but the manner in which she won it suggests she’ll be an even tougher horse to beat this season. Group Two winner Levante has won seven of her 11 career starts and is known for her get-back run-on style, often[...]

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

If Levante is going to become a Group One winner, she’s going to have to wait until she’s a five-year-old. The exciting four-year-old mare ended a good yet somewhat frustrating 2020-21 season when she finished fourth last Saturday in the Group 1 Fiber Fresh New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa. Ken Kelso,[...]

Posted on March 29, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Promising mare Les Crayeres will head to the spelling paddock off the back of a stylish performance over 1400m at Tauranga on Saturday. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained four-year-old survived a protest from the third placed runner, Duneagle, to register career win number four from just 8 starts and set herself up for a profitable[...]

Posted on March 15, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The connections of exciting galloper Levante will be looking for an indication on any changes to the current trans-Tasman travel restrictions before making a decision on her next raceday assignment. While one-way travel to Australia is no issue, returning home is a significant headache for New Zealanders, with two weeks quarantine still mandatory and places[...]

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

High-class mare Levante ran out a ready winner of her 1230m heat at the Rotorua trials on Tuesday and most importantly jumped away cleanly from the starting gates and will be seen back at the races on Saturday week. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained four-year-old missed a place for the first time in her nine-start[...]

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

The significance of riding 1000 New Zealand winners is dawning on Cambridge jockey Danielle Johnson. Johnson sits on 999 wins in New Zealand and has a gilt-edged opportunity to become the 34th jockey to achieve the feat with a book of nine rides at Te Aroha on Wednesday. “I hope that monkey doesn’t just sit[...]

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

Trainers Ken and Bev Kelso left Te Rapa racecourse on Saturday evening with mixed emotions after contrasting performances from their two runners on the day. Two hours after quality mare Levante had shocked pundits with a tardy beginning that cost her all chance in the Group 1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m), exciting prospect Les Crayeres[...]

Posted on February 12, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Ken Kelso is looking forward to seeing his exciting mare Levante take on Avantage again, this time at 1400m in the Group 1 BCD Sprint at Te Rapa. Levante has thrilled racegoers with her fast-finishing efforts, winning six of her eight starts. But in her sole effort at Group One level, she couldn’t catch Avantage,[...]

Posted on January 26, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Two days after her superlative win in the Group 2 Westbury Classic (1400m) at Ellerslie on Karaka Million night on Saturday, exciting four-year-old Levante was enjoying a relaxing morning in her paddock at the Matamata property of her trainers Ken and Bev Kelso. Ken Kelso cut a relaxed figure at the National Yearling Sale at[...]

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

Promising mare Les Crayeres completed a winning double at Tauranga on Saturday when she took out the opening event on the card at the popular holiday racemeeting. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained four-year-old has now had four starts at the venue for two wins after breaking maidens there at her last start, with the promise[...]

Posted on December 11, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Ken and Bev Kelso would love nothing more than for classy mare Supera to sign off her career with a win. The Sir Peter Vela-bred and raced Savabeel mare contests Saturday’s Group 2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa at what shapes as the second-to-last start of her career. “She’s in foal and she[...]

Levante on-target for fruitful campaign

Spring targets beckon Levante

Impressive Tauranga winner ready for a break

Travel restrictions to decide next target for Levante

Levante slick from gates

Johnson keen to make history at Te Aroha

Les Crayeres provides pick me up for Kelso

Levante primed for Te Rapa test

Levante on track for next Group 1 challenge

Les Crayeres on song at Tauranga

Supera surging towards finishing line

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