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Marshal joins Adelaide trainer

Posted on February 14, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Talented five-year-old Mongolian Marshal has joined the stable of Morphettville trainer Stuart Gower and will continue his career in Adelaide. Previously prepared by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman, the son of High Chaparral won the Group 3 Waikato Cup (2400m) in 2018 and was also placed in last year's Group 1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m)[...]

Posted on February 4, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Opie Bosson holds the key to feature success at Te Rapa on Saturday for leading Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman. Bosson, the king of the Karaka Million with his recent double on Cool Aza Beel and Probabeel, has picked up the mount on the stable's latest Group 1 winner, True Enough, in the[...]

Posted on February 2, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A powerful finishing burst carried lightly raced filly Bonita Aurelia to her first career victory when she downed the favourites in Saturday's Group 3 Woburn Farm 2YO Classic (1200m) at New Plymouth. In breaking her maiden status, the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained two-year-old also provided Novara Park stallion Sweynesse with both his first winner[...]

Posted on January 18, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A copybook ride by Opie Bosson paved the way for promising filly Showbeel to add a valuable black type success to her career record when she took out the first feature race at Trentham on Saturday, the Group 3 New Zealand Bloodstock Desert Gold Stakes (1600m). The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained three-year-old had finished[...]

Posted on January 17, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman will be looking to plunder some Wellington spoils on Saturday where they will contest three feature races at Trentham. Mongolian Marshal will tackle Group 1 company in the Harcourts Thorndon Mile (1600m) and his trainers have been impressed with the way he has been working since his fourth-placing[...]

Posted on January 6, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Stablemates The Chosen One, Long Jack and Quick Thinker are back in work after Australian spring campaigns with the latter pair walking a fine line to get to Ellerslie late next month for another Group 1 target. The Chosen One, winner of the Group 2 Herbert Power (2400m) at Caulfield last October was put aside[...]

Posted on December 23, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A comfortable maiden victory by Not Usual Litening at Te Rapa on Saturday has co-trainer Murray Baker looking at stepping his charge up to a greater challenge in the coming weeks. Baker, who prepares the Pins three-year-old at Cambridge with training partner Andrew Forsman, was taken by the ease of the performance that saw him[...]

Posted on December 16, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Te Rapa winner American Princess is likely to be put aside for a short break as her trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman look ahead to some of the late summer two-year-old features with the impressive debutant. An eye-catching win at the Cambridge trials last moth saw punters install the Jimmy Choux filly as a[...]

Posted on December 9, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Promising three-year-old Coco Baci will step up in class and distance for her next assignment after clearing maiden company in fine style at Ellerslie on Saturday. The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Savabeel filly came with a dogged late run to score over 1600m in the first race on the card, winning in a manner[...]

Posted on December 4, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman will be hoping 10 is their lucky number this weekend. The Cambridge training partnership have drawn the outside gate with Unition and True Enough in their respective 10-horse stakes fields at Trentham on Saturday and they believe they will need every ounce of luck they can get with those gates.[...]

Posted on December 4, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Premier New Zealand trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman have put Rhaegar's disappointing Sydney campaign behind them and are hoping he can live up to expectations at home over the summer. The three-year-old runs in Saturday's Group Three Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie after a pleasing second in a barrier trial. Rhaegar ran fourth in[...]

Posted on November 23, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Impeccably bred two-year-old Unition showed plenty of grit as he made a winning debut at Pukekohe on Saturday when he took out the Listed Fasttrack Insurance 5K Bonus 2YO Stakes (1100m). The Fastnet Rock colt, who races in the colours of his owner and breeder the China Horse Club, is out of the well-performed Savabeel[...]

Posted on November 13, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained True Enough was backed into $4 favoritism by punters in the Group 2 Coupland's Bakeries Mile (1600m) at Riccarton on Wednesday and he duly delivered, courtesy of a gun ride by leading hoop Matthew Cameron. The son of Nom Du Jeu began well from barrier six and settled just[...]

Posted on November 12, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News, United States Horse Racing News

Multiple New Zealand Group 1 winner Madison County will continue his career in North America with trainer Chad Brown as he plays a trail-blazing role for his owners. The China Horse Club-owned gelding has won four of his 14 career starts, with a further six placings and was New Zealand's Champion Three-Year-Old on the back[...]

Posted on November 4, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Octogenarian twins Ray and Tony Dennis are a long way from home but happy to be in Melbourne to watch a horse they bred and own try to uphold antipodean pride in the Melbourne Cup. The 80-year-old brothers hail from the tiny town of Woodlands in the deep south of New Zealand and have been[...]

Posted on November 3, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman will remove the blinkers from their Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) hope The Chosen One as they look to provide the four-year-old Savabeel entire with his best possible chance to win Australasia's great race. The Chosen One finished fifth in the Group 3 Hotham Handicap (2500m) on an unsuitable[...]

Posted on October 23, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

A better-behaved Long Jack has stamped his claims for a tilt at the Victoria Derby with a strong staying performance to win the Geelong Classic. Murray Baker, who trains in partnership with Andrew Forsman, won the Geelong Classic two years ago with Weather With You who went on to finish eighth behind Ace High in[...]

Marshal joins Adelaide trainer

Baker and Forsman cheering on Bosson

Baker Forsman filly takes Taranaki juvenile feature

Bosson nails first Trentham feature on Showbeel

Cambridge quartet tackle Trentham features

Fine line to Derby for stablemates

Baker set to raise the bar with impressive Te Rapa maiden winner

Patient approach with impressive juvenile

Savabeel filly ready to tackle stakes company

Visitor draws for Cambridge duo

Rhaegar To Get Back To Form At Home In NZ

Unition takes out Pukekohe two-year-old feature on debut

True Enough captures Coupland’s Mile

Kiwi star bound for United States

NZ Cup Hope The Chosen One A Family Affair

Gear change for Kiwi Cup hope

Long Jack Gets Derby Shot With Geelong Win

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