Mike Moroney

Young Kiwi front and centre of Cox Plate preparations

Posted on October 22, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

A decade and a half after Todd Pollard entered the racing industry as an enthusiastic schoolboy, he now finds himself front and centre of one the world’s most famous races, the Group 1 W.S. Cox Plate (2040m). Pollard’s first taste of racing was as a 12-year-old working weekends and holidays as a stablehand for Matamata[...]

Posted on October 9, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A select racing string alongside a breaking and pre-training business is just one facet of the busy life led by talented horseman Chad Ormsby. Last Saturday 32-year-old Ormsby celebrated a notable win with Mana Nui in the Group 2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m), his first black-type success as a trainer in his own right. His[...]

Posted on July 17, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A year and more since COVID-19 changed the world that we knew, over the past week Mike and Paul Moroney have finally made it back to New Zealand to catch up on family, friends and business. Like so many others, the Melbourne-based brothers’ personal and commercial lives have been unimaginably compromised. Mike is the principal[...]

Posted on June 16, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian based NZ trainer Mike Moroney has given the green light for Tofane to have a crack at securing her third elite-level victory at Eagle Farm next week. The daughter of Ocean Park doubled her Group One tally when taking out the Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at the Brisbane track last week, continuing her purple patch[...]

Posted on May 25, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand jockey Opie Bosson knows the time is right for Melody Belle to stop racing. But it didn’t mean he wasn’t affected by it. Melody Belle ended her racing career at the weekend when finishing fifth in Bosson’s hands in the Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m), finishing as well as anything behind the runaway[...]

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

New Zealand’s Curraghmore Stud principal Gordon Cunningham continued his good form with Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard’s Ballymore Stables when Tevere broke her maiden status at just her second start when storming clear to win over 1200m at Te Rapa. “Tevere is the third horse I’ve had in training with Ballymore,” Cunningham said. “The first[...]

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

New Zealand filly Llanacord will in all likelihood stick to taking on her own sex in South Australia after racing without luck in Saturday’s Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville. The Group1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) third-place finisher is nominated for the Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) at Morphettville this weekend, but her[...]

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

Quality filly Tokorangi has settled in well to her new surroundings in Melbourne as she prepares to make her Australian debut on Saturday in the Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville. The three-year-old daughter of Redwood made her way to Mike Moroney’s Flemington base ten days ago, with Moroney’s New Zealand training partner Pam[...]

Posted on April 17, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Matamata visitor Roch ‘N’ Horse put a disappointing last start performance behind her when she produced a powerful closing burst to take out the Listed Power Turf Sprint (1200m) at Hastings. It was the first stakes victory for the Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard-trained four-year-old after she went within a nose of achieving that goal[...]

Posted on April 6, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jockey Brett Prebble’s first ride back from a ‘spell’ has ended with him sidelined again with another enforced holiday. Prebble made the journey to Bendigo on Tuesday for his first ride in five-and-a-half months, guiding the Mike Moroney-trained Wisaka to victory in a 1600m maiden. But in a post-race interview on racing.com, Prebble expected to[...]

Posted on March 30, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

The delay of the Group 1 Tancred Stakes at Rosehill is likely to suit two of Mike Moroney’s stayers who are both best suited racing on top of the ground. The big wet that hit Sydney delaying the Autumn Carnival a week has played into the hands of Chapada and Sound who are entered in[...]

Posted on March 29, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

One trainer not upset at the Sydney Autumn Carnival being delayed a week is Mike Moroney who says it may allow Tofane to resume in a stakes race for her own sex at Randwick. The winner of the Group 1 All-Aged Stakes at last year’s carnival, Tofane has had a delayed start to the current[...]

Posted on March 25, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Mike Moroney hopes that with maturity Michigan will progress through the grades after his maiden victory at Sandown on Wednesday. Lining up in the $50,000 Ladbroke It Plate (1300m), Michigan won in the style of a good horse and one that Moroney holds a bit of time for. After running second at his first two[...]

Posted on March 17, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Now a fully furnished five-year-old, trainer Mike Moroney says it is time for Chapada to be competitive in the bigger spring races at years end. In a bid to short-circuit the rush of qualifying for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, Chapada will attempt to win a ballot exemption for those races in upcoming starts. First-up[...]

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

Punters should disregard Fleetwood Maca’s last two runs when assessing her chances in the Group 2 Little Avondale Stud Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Hastings on Wednesday according to co-trainer Pam Gerard. Fleetwood Maca has shown plenty of ability to date, most notably when pushing boom filly Amarelinha to 1-1/4 lengths in the Group 2 Eight[...]

Posted on February 24, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

As a trainer who has won almost 50 Group One races, Mike Moroney has a strong handle on a horse's quality and he thinks Poland can measure up to top grade.

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

The Ballymore stables of Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard have plenty to look forward to over the Auckland Cup Carnival, following the performances of proven stayer Sound and progressive mare Tia d’Or on Saturday. Eight-year-old entire Sound finished second in the Group 2 Avondale Cup (2400m) behind Robusto, carrying topweight of 59kgs, cementing his favouritism[...]

Young Kiwi front and centre of Cox Plate preparations

Ormsby’s multiple focus makes for busy times

Moroney brothers make long-awaited return home

Tattersall’s Tiara confirmed for Tofane

Opie Bosson farewells New Zealand mare Melody Belle

Cunningham enjoys further success with Matamata partnership

South Australian Group Three option for Llanacord

Tokorangi ready for Australasian Oaks tilt

Promising mare takes first black type trophy

Prebble returns to another holiday

Moroney pair to enjoy Sydney weather

Tofane a late comer to Sydney carnival

Michigan displays nice signs at Sandown

Chapada aims for Caulfield Cup start at Mornington

Fleetwood Maca on song ahead of Lowland

Poland Ready To Annex Australian Guineas

Sound reinforces Auckland Cup credentials

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