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Ruakaka resumption for Tiley mares

Posted on September 16, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1 performer Melt will kick-off her spring campaign in the Harcourts Tai Tokerau Trophy (1200m) at Ruakaka on Saturday. The daughter of Iffraaj hasn’t been seen on raceday since her runner-up effort over 1200m at Tauranga last November and trainer Nigel Tiley is looking forward to her return. “Melt had a nice break,” he[...]

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

Trainer Alan Sharrock had a smile on his face a mile wide despite being beaten in Saturday’s feature event at Te Rapa, the Group 2 Valachi Downs Foxbridge Plate (1200m). Sharrock had just seen his underrated galloper Tavi Mac push quality mare Avantage all the way down the Te Rapa straight before going under by[...]

Posted on August 20, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

When the going gets tough, you can count on the generosity of those involved in the racing industry. That’s what Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley has found as he prepares to send seven horses to race at Matamata on Saturday under the new Government Covid-19 restrictions around travel out of Auckland. New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing has[...]

Posted on July 28, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Leith Innes was glad to get the winning feeling back at Avondale on Saturday, but New Zealand isn’t where he was supposed to be during winter. In his second day back riding since the resumption of New Zealand racing, Innes was successful on his only mount of the day, the smart galloper Demonetization in his[...]

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

Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley continued his fine run of form when he saddled four winners at Avondale on Saturday. Tiley and his apprentice Callum Jones, who have combined for six wins in the past month, kicked the day off in fine style when three-year-old filly Now Is Now produced a powerful finishing burst to register[...]

Posted on July 13, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Promising young rider Callum Jones is making every post a winner in the early stages of his career, adding a winning treble to his record after bagging a double on his home track last month. Jones, who is apprenticed to Nigel Tiley at Pukekohe, scored aboard Diogenes and Double Happy on his first official day[...]

Posted on June 21, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

It may have been a mid-winter’s day at Pukekohe Park on Saturday, but it will live long in the memory of apprentice jockey Callum Jones. The 17-year-old hoop got the sign-off earlier in the week to begin his raceday career, and employer Nigel Tiley wasted no time in utilising the talents of the young rider[...]

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

Nigel Tiley would usually be enjoying the warmer climate of Queensland at this time of year, however, the Pukekohe trainer is getting set to line-up a handful of his team at his home track on Saturday. “Normally we go and base ourselves at the Sunshine Coast for a couple of months, but unfortunately that didn’t[...]

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

Five-year-old gelding Demonetization has been plagued by issues throughout his racing career and trainer Nigel Tiley believes he finally has him back to somewhere near his best. The son of All Too Hard, a one-time Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) favourite, had his three-year-old season cut short through injury, while during last year’s Queensland[...]

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

The combination of Spicer Thoroughbreds and trainer Lindsey Smith have enjoyed good success in recent weeks with horses emanating from New Zealand. That trend continued on Sunday when progressive galloper Mystery Shot kept his record unblemished for Smith, with an impressive victory at Ballarat over 1200m. The Inglewood Stud bred gelding trialled in New Zealand[...]

Posted on May 27, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley is pleased to be back at work, but the COVID-19 lockdown period gave him a chance to ponder what his business might look like as we enter a new normal. The champion jockey turned trainer is cognisant that businesses through all walks of life have been hit hard by COVID-19 and[...]

Posted on May 3, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Pukekohe-based trainer Nigel Tiley is happy to take a wait and see approach as the build-up commences for the resumption of racing in New Zealand in early July. Tiley, who has enjoyed a stellar season with the likes of multiple stakes winners Riodini and Play That Song, had been ready to launch the campaigns of[...]

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

Exciting juvenile Play That Song gave trainer Nigel Tiley the clear message that she is ready to tackle her next assignment when he went to see her in her paddock on Monday morning. The Showcasing two-year-old filly tried her heart out when finishing second to quality colt Cool Aza Beel in Saturday’s Karaka Million 2YO[...]

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

Opie Bosson doesn’t mind getting called greedy. Especially when it comes for his desire for further Karaka Million success. The champion jockey will team up with Cool Aza Beel in Saturday’s Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) and partner last year’s winner Probabeel in the Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m). Probabeel completed a treble of Karaka Million[...]

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

Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley believes undefeated filly Play That Song is hitting all the right notes heading into Saturday’s $1 million Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie. The daughter of Showcasing, whom Tiley owns with wife Lee, her sister Mandy and close friends Richard Cole and Alex Opie, has come on further since defeating race[...]

Posted on January 13, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Indecision with Harlech and a rest for Riodini is the outcome following their defeat at the hands of Travelling Light at Trentham on Saturday. With Travelling Light clearly showing her class when winning the Group 1 Levin Classic (1600m), Harlech fought strongly for second, a length and a quarter astern, while Riodini was a further[...]

Posted on January 10, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Riodini may have been beaten for the first time in his career in the Group 2 Auckland Guineas (1600m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s day, but he lost no admiration from trainer Nigel Tiley. The South Auckland horseman was pleased with his runner-up effort behind Dragon Leap and said he was a victim of how[...]

Ruakaka resumption for Tiley mares

All roads lead to Hastings after Foxbridge Plate wash up

Tiley works around Covid-19 restrictions

Innes couldn’t escape home winter

Tiley continues red-hot run with Avondale four-timer

Birthday bonus for promising apprentice

Apprentice jockey notches double on debut

Tiley excited about hometrack resumption

Demonetization impresses at Ellerslie

Spicer keen on Kiwi imports

Realistic Tiley reshaping business

Tiley to take patient approach to racing resumption

Play That Song set for Ellerslie Group 1

Bosson hungry for further Karaka Million success

2YO hitting right notes ahead of Karaka Million

After-effects for Travelling Light’s beaten brigade

Riodini seeking Group 1 redemption

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