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Nigel Tiley confident about Vila Belmiro hopes at Ellerslie

Posted on April 9, 2024
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Nigel Tiley is hoping to see a deserved maiden success for Vila Belmiro as he lines up a warm-favourite at Ellerslie on Wednesday. A son of Santos, Vila Belmiro made his debut as a juvenile in the Listed Challenge Stakes (1100m), but was not seen raceday for the following 15 months as his Pukekohe trainer[...]

Posted on November 17, 2023
in Australian Horse Racing News

Highly regarded filly About A Girl will continue her career in Australia from the champion Sydney stable of Chris Waller. The daughter of Almanzor made an impressive winning debut over 1200m at Tauranga last month for trainer and part-owner Nigel Tiley, prompting a trans-Tasman agreement for the three-year-old. “We did a deal with one of[...]

Posted on June 22, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group One performer Riodini has returned home to New Zealand and will rejoin former trainer Nigel Tiley's Pukekohe stable in the new season. The son of Proisir was a standout youngster for the South Auckland horseman, winning his sole start as a juvenile before impressing in his three-year-old term with three successive victories, including the[...]

Posted on November 14, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Newly arrived South African jockey Craig Zackey has made an immediate impact in New Zealand. The talented 27-year-old arrived just a matter of weeks ago and has quickly shown his class in the saddle. After a trio of runner-up finishes in the first three races at Tauranga on Saturday, Zackey notched his all-important first victory[...]

Posted on November 12, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Former South African Champion Apprentice Craig Zackey got his New Zealand career underway at Tauranga on Saturday where he picked up a winning double including the feature event on the card, the Group 2 Tauranga Stakes (1600m) aboard Demonetization. Zackey and fellow South African rider Warren Kennedy made their way to New Zealand in recent[...]

Posted on October 6, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Multiple New Zealand black-type winner Demonetization will be a notable absentee from Saturday's relocated Group 1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m) at Matamata. While the feature will now be run much closer to his home base, trainer Nigel Tiley has opted to keep his powder dry ahead of another return to Hawke's Bay for the Group[...]

Posted on September 6, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Nigel Tiley hasn't been given the warmest of welcomes back to New Zealand, with temperatures still winter-like, but that isn't all bad for the South Auckland horseman. Tiley has spent the winter in Queensland with his wife Lee and returned last week to oversee Demonetization's first-up run in the Group 2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at[...]

Posted on April 23, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The Nigel Tiley-trained Demonetization will be out to defend his title in Saturday's Group 3 Manco Easter Handicap (1600m) and the seven-year-old gelding enters the race off a similar campaign to last year. With Ellerslie out of action for at least the next 18 months, the time-honoured mile has been relocated to Demonetization's home track[...]

Posted on April 7, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand Racegoers won't see any more of the promising Pukekohe three-year-old Midnight Mass this season despite a nice victory for the firm track specialist at Avondale last Saturday. The son of Proisir came from last on the bend for jockey Sam Spratt and won narrowly from the filly Maria, to whom he was conceding[...]

Posted on March 13, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A future across the Tasman could be in the offing for Eyesonlyonme after her maiden win in the Haunui Farm 1400 at Pukekohe on Saturday. The daughter of Free Eagle was having just her third start, having finished runner-up in her first two starts from wide gates. Punters duly backed her into favouritism after she[...]

Posted on March 13, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The persistence of local trainer Rudy Liefting paid dividends when Stars ‘N' Cream edged out the Nigel Tiley-trained pair of Midnight Mass and Quicken Away in the Sonia Macfarlane Memorial (1400m). An all-the-way winner on debut, Stars ‘N' Cream had been placed once in her subsequent four starts before again finding the winner's circle and[...]

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

Leith Innes is back into the swing of riding from a temporary new base and is looking forward to making up for lost time. He was robbed of opportunities as one of several jockeys unable to ride due to the Auckland region's COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, but has been able to move out of the province[...]

Posted on November 12, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley had a spring in his step as he ventured to the races for the first time in several months on Thursday and was delighted to come home with a couple of classy winners. Tiley has been stuck within the confines of the Auckland boundary as the region has been locked down[...]

Posted on November 10, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

For experienced trainer Nigel Tiley, Thursday's Pukekohe raceday for Auckland-trained horses is a godsend. Tiley will start five horses on the 11-race card, which Auckland trainers have embraced to a huge extent. Trainers inside Auckland's Covid-19 borders have been able to race their horses outside the border, but they haven't been able to travel with[...]

Posted on October 7, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

As a member of one of racing's best-known families, Awapuni horseman Peter Didham is hardly a surprise package in the country's training ranks. Only weeks after being confirmed as the winner of the Gavelhouse.com Newcomer to Training Award for 2020-21, Didham was credited with his first black-type success when he saddled up House Of Cartier[...]

Posted on September 11, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Kylie Grass is relishing the opportunity to train consistent staying mare Barbara and is making every post a winner. The Pukekohe horsewoman, who has made her name predominantly as a pre-trainer, has had the daughter of He's Remarkable in a caretaker capacity since fellow trainer Nigel Tiley ventured to Queensland in June for an extended[...]

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

Former Nigel Tiley-trained stayer Double Happy opened his account from his new base at Shaun and Emma Clotworthy's Byerley Park operation when he took out the AUG 21 – Alibaba's Flying Carpets Ruakaka Cup, an open 2100m contest at Ruakaka on Saturday. The lightly raced seven-year-old gelding had won four of his 14 starts for[...]

Nigel Tiley confident about Vila Belmiro hopes at Ellerslie

Riodini primed for Tauranga Stakes

Riodini returns to New Zealand

Zackey makes instant impact

Demonetization claims Group 2 Tauranga Stakes

All roads lead back to Livamol for Demonetization

Demonetization to get Group 1 chance

Demonetization primed for Easter defence

Midnight Mass heads to spelling paddock

Australia in the offing for Eyesonlyonme

Turn Me Loose filly gets the Cream at Pukekohe

Eager Innes back on winning trail

Tiley talent on show at home track

Tiley delighted to be back racing at Pukekohe

Didham continues proud family legacy

Grass making name with staying mare

Clotworthy happy to get first victory with handy winter stayer

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