Matamata Breeders’ Stakes

Hanalei a highlight for Richards family

Posted on January 18, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Promising filly Hanalei provided co-owner and breeder Paul Richards with one of the biggest thrills of a more than forty-year career in the thoroughbred racing game when she took out the Listed IRT Wellesley Stakes (1100m) at Trentham on Saturday under the training of son Jamie. Richards who bred and races the Darci Brahma filly[...]

Posted on January 17, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Promising filly Hanalei showed she had taken plenty from her runner-up performance on debut at Te Aroha at the start of the month, when she dominated her two-year-old rivals in the Listed IRT Wellesley Stakes (1100m) at Trentham. The Jamie Richards trained daughter of Darci Brahma had been heavily backed for her first-up performance but[...]

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

Jamie Richards dominated the two-year-old events at Te Aroha on Monday as Maven Belle joined stablemate Kabugee as an impressive juvenile winner on debut when she burst clear in the run home in a 1000m contest. Maven Belle made full use of an inside barrier to settle in the trail for rider Joe Kamaruddin before[...]

Posted on September 6, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

If co-trainer Stephen Autridge could use just one word to sum up his two-year-old filly Cincoro then that word would be professional. The Savabeel youngster, who Autridge prepares with training partner Kris Shailer, showed all of her professional qualities when she never put a hoof wrong in taking out the opening juvenile event of the[...]

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

With the onset of spring and summer racing just around the corner, you can hear the excitement in the voice of trainer Graham Richardson as he talks about the prospects his Matamata stable has for the new season. Richardson and training partner Rogan Norvall will unleash several unraced runners at the Te Rapa trials on[...]

Posted on March 1, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

There aren’t many better ways for a jockey to celebrate buying a new home than riding a treble the next day. Craig Grylls did exactly that at Matamata, his three winners including Group 2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) victor Bonny Lass. It came a day after he and his wife Milou secured a lifestyle block[...]

Posted on March 1, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

After a night of celebrations at his favourite local restaurant, Matamata trainer Graham Richardson made an understandably slow start to his Sunday morning schedule. Richardson and a group of friends had good cause to party on Saturday evening after he and co-trainer Rogan Norvall captured the most prized trophy amongst the local training fraternity, the[...]

Posted on March 1, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Local filly Bonny Lass carried the hopes of her breeder Sandy Moore and a mixture of racing newbies and experienced hands to victory in Saturday’s Group 2 J Swap Contractors Ltd Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m). The two-year-old filly is raced by Moore, the vice-president of the Auckland Racing Club and members of the Social Racing[...]

Posted on February 27, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Lance Noble is shooting for back-to-back winners of the Group 2 J Swap Contractors Ltd Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) when he saddles Hinchinbrook filly Beldarra on Saturday. 12 months ago, Noble enjoyed one of his most satisfying wins when Vernazza proved too good for her rivals in the Matamata feature, a town where the[...]

Posted on February 24, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Matamata trainers Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall head to their local meeting on Saturday with talented yet unassuming filly Bonny Lass in the Group 2 J Swap Contractors Ltd Matamata Breeders Stakes (1200m). An impressive debut winner at the course and distance in late January, Richardson is pleased with the progress of the Super Easy[...]

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

Nick Wigley and Kayla Milnes had an exciting spring with stakes-winning three-year-old Matchmaker, and now promising two-year-old Mozzarella is giving the Rangiora trainers something to look forward to in the autumn. The two-year-old daughter of Capitalist ran away to a comfortable four length victory at Riccarton on Saturday, her second win on-end, fulfilling the promise[...]

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

Promising two-year-old Mozzarella could have booked a trip north for a juvenile feature later this month after her impressive victory over 800m at Riccarton on Saturday. The daughter of Capitalist was having her first run back from a five-week break over the Christmas period and proved too tough for her age-group rivals in the run[...]

Posted on January 4, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Ken Rae knew he had just the sort of filly he likes dealing with when he picked her up on the float on the way home from a trip away. The Super Easy weanling had been purchased by Rae for owner Sue Martin off the gavelhouse.com site and needed to be collected from Mark[...]

Posted on September 9, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 2 winning mare Aretha has been retired after trailing the field home in the Group 2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) last Saturday, with a stallion yet to be selected for the daughter of Charm Spirit. The winner of the Group 2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at two, Aretha was also placed at Group 1 level[...]

Posted on February 24, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Vernazza’s victory in the Group 2 J Swap Contractors Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) was a special moment in the career of trainer Lance Noble. The former Matamata horseman now trains privately for owner-breeders Brendan and Jo Lindsay at their property in Karaka, but he returned to his old stomping ground on Saturday and triumphed in[...]

Posted on February 23, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Popular Matamata jockey Michael Coleman hopes the feature race double he achieved on his home track on Saturday provides the catalyst to lift the number of raceday engagements he has been receiving of late. A member of the exclusive 2000 winners club, Coleman has been going through a lean patch in recent months despite retaining[...]

Posted on February 22, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Race favourite Vernazza overcame a wide run and a dogged local challenge to take out the feature event at Matamata on Saturday, the Group 2 J Swap Contractors Ltd Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m). Carrying the colours of Cambridge Stud couple Brendan and Jo Lindsay, the More Than Ready filly had impressed many with her maiden[...]

Hanalei a highlight for Richards family

Hanalei too strong in Wellesley Stakes

Maven Belle impressive on debut at Te Aroha

Savabeel filly all business at Wanganui

Richardson excited about new season prospects

In-form Grylls making every post a winner

Richardson still buzzing over home track success

Richardson and Norvall double up in Matamata features

Noble in search of more success at old stomping ground

Richardson chasing hometown feature with Bonny Lass

Northern features beckon promising juvenile

More ahead for impressive Riccarton winner

Dream filly makes successful debut at Te Aroha

Broodmare paddock beckons Aretha

Noble savours special win

Coleman back on top after lean summer

Favourite takes Matamata Breeders’ Stakes

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