New Zealand 2000 Guineas

Innes keen on what the new season holds

Posted on July 31, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Leith Innes may be a senior statesman of New Zealand’s northern jockeys’ room, but he hasn’t lost his enthusiasm for what lies ahead on the feature race scene in the new season. Innes will sign off 2020-21 with 32 wins from 260 raceday rides, headed by his association with star three-year-old Aegon as well as[...]

Posted on July 22, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Tony Pike is looking forward to spring racing with his new acquisition Catalyst. The rising five-year-old son of Darci Brahma won six of his 10 races for former trainer Clayton Chipperfield, five of which were at stakes level, including the Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m). He hasn’t raced since pulling up lame in[...]

Posted on July 19, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand trainers Ken Rae and his daughter Krystal Williams-Tuhoro provided the first three runners home in Saturday’s two-year-old feature at Ruakaka. Race favourite Dream Queen and rider Samantha Collett proved too strong in the run home as they dashed away from Sam Weatherley on stablemate Follow Your Dreams in the closing stages to win[...]

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

A lot of people dread winter, but not Kenny Rae. The Ruakaka trainer gets to enjoy the warmer climate of the winterless north of New Zealand, but it is also a time when a lot of young untried horses enter his barn. He enjoys campaigning the older warhorses in his barn like Major Tom and[...]

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

It’s not a misprint in your racebook, former New Zealand top jumps jockey Clayton Chipperfield is dusting off his saddle and making his raceday riding return at Pukekohe on Thursday. The 41-year-old has been absent from the jockeys’ room for nearly 15 years, but a change in career trajectory earlier this year has led Chipperfield[...]

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

Jamie Richards and Te Akau Racing’s total dominance of New Zealand two-year-old racing rolled on with a richly deserved Group One triumph for On the Bubbles in Saturday’s Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m). The Awapuni feature was the 21st juvenile win of the season for Richards and the Te Akau team, with seven[...]

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

In a titanic tussle that lived up to the pre-race hype, Aegon kept his perfect record intact with a thrilling win over Amarelinha in Saturday’s Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie. Although the million-dollar race attracted a full field of 17 three-year-olds, the build-up was completely dominated by two horses. One was Aegon, whose[...]

Posted on November 12, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The win of Aegon, a son of the late Sacred Falls, in last Saturday’s Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) provided cause for triumphant reflection from powerhouse breeders Waikato Stud. Bred and sold by the Matamata nursery, Aegon has come a long way in a short time for trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman,[...]

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

A rueful Stephen Marsh was left with a bittersweet feeling following the running of Saturday’s Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton. Not much more than a coat of paint separated his three-year-colt Bourbonaire from eventual winner Aegon at the finish line, the second time the pair had finished[...]

Posted on November 8, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

In what was a carbon copy of the finish to the Group 2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) back in September, unbeaten three-year-old Aegon defeated Bourbonaire in a thrilling finish to the Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton. The Cambridge gallopers had fought out a terrific battle in the[...]

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

Jockey Sam Weatherley is making the most of his opportunities at present and heads to Riccarton on Saturday full of confidence. The 21-year-old has ridden a double at each of Awapuni, Te Rapa and Hastings on the past three Saturdays and hopes to continue that winning streak this weekend. “Things are going really well at[...]

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

Riccarton trainers Michael and Matthew Pitman have a dual-pronged attack on Saturday’s Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), and the hopes of the South Island rest on their shoulders as they take on nine competitors from the North. The Pitmans will saddle lightly-tried galloper Marine and stablemate Watchmaker as they[...]

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

Matamata trainer Jamie Richards is well used to marking off new benchmarks in career highlights. Winning the New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) with Xtravagant at Riccarton in 2015 to bring up the first Group 1 win of his career has begun a sequence of highlights, which have come to a head in 2020. A Karaka[...]

Posted on November 5, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Leith Innes can see plenty of similarities between Saturday’s Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld 2000 Guineas (1600m) contender Aegon and the colt’s sire Sacred Falls. But the one likeness Innes wants to see most is both horses’ names on the winner’s list for the Riccarton classic. The South Auckland jockey rode Sacred Falls to win[...]

Posted on October 30, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Matamata training partners Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott will have just the two runners at Pukekohe on Saturday, headed by resuming speedster Princess Rihanna. The daughter of Showcasing has four wins to her name, a Group 3 placing in the Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) as a three-year-old and the short-course mare has had two trials[...]

Posted on October 29, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Only a matter of days ago, trainer Kenny Rae had resigned himself to missing the Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) with Zoltan at Riccarton on Saturday week. On Thursday at Ashburton, Rae will saddle the talented three-year-old in the Thank You Barneswood Farm 1200, the Iffraaj gelding on trial[...]

Posted on October 26, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

On a day where the contenders for the upcoming age-group classics at Riccarton were on display around the country, South Island galloper Miss Tycoon Rose threw her hat in the ring with an impressive maiden victory. The Michael and Matthew Pitman-trained three-year-old was backed off the map in the first event at Riccarton on Saturday[...]

Innes keen on what the new season holds

Trans-Tasman plans for Catalyst

Local trifecta in Ruakaka juvenile contest

New Zealand trainer Rae excited about stable youngsters

Clayton Chipperfield makes New Zealand riding return

Group One glory for On the Bubbles

Aegon triumphs in epic Karaka Million 3YO Classic

Aegon: a quintessential Waikato Stud product

Spelling paddock beckons gallant Guineas runner-up

Aegon lands 2000 Guineas in grandstand finish

In-form Weatherley to make Riccarton impact

Southern Guineas hopes rest with Pitmans

Richards chasing Trans-Tasman features

Innes looking for replica 2000 Guineas win

Princess Rihanna ready for Pukekohe sprint

Zoltan bounces back

Pitman filly ready for classic challenge

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