Opie Bosson

On The Bubbles produces champagne performance

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

Te Akau Racing’s challenge for supremacy in the $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) later this month was strengthened at Ellerslie on Sunday when On The Bubbles produced a comprehensive victory is his final lead-up to the big event. The Jamie Richards-trained Brazen Beau youngster sat three-wide throughout the 1200m contest but still[...]

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

The Group 1 Sistema Railway (1200m) was the pinnacle event on a day awash with black type features at Ellerslie on Friday and it more than lived up to its billing as the heavyweights of New Zealand sprinting took their shot at Group 1 glory. When the dust settled it was the red-hot team of[...]

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

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman stable added another likely candidate to their Group 1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) assault in March, when Frontman made a winning debut at Rotorua on Monday. There had been plenty of talk about the full brother to multiple Group 1 winner Bonneval after he had won a 1000m[...]

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

A quick glance at the results from day one of the Ellerslie Christmas carnival reveals the remarkable fact that if your surname wasn’t Richards, Bosson or Johnson you struggled to make much of an impact on one of the biggest days on the New Zealand racing calendar. Matamata’s Jamie Richards dominated the training ranks as[...]

Posted on December 27, 2020
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Champion trainer Jamie Richards and the Te Akau team have sent out an abundance of talent this season, and a remarkable performance in Saturday’s Group 2 Jamieson Park Eight Carat Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie may have moved Amarelinha towards the top of the list. Along with Melody Belle’s Group 1 Hawke’s Bay heroics, a five-win[...]

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

The all-conquering Te Akau team is sticking to a proven Group 1 formula with rising star three-year-old Brando. The striking son of Savabeel scored a dominant victory in Saturday’s Listed Shaw’s Wire Ropes Uncle Remus Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie, which will be used as a springboard into the Group 1 Levin Classic (1600m) at Trentham[...]

Posted on December 24, 2020
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Last start Group 3 Counties Cup (2100m) winner In A Twinkling will be vying for Group 1 glory at Ellerslie on Boxing Day when he lines-up in the Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m). The Jamie Richards-trained gelding finished runner-up in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) behind Crown Prosecutor last year, and he has[...]

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

Trainer Emma-Lee Browne was still sporting a smile a mile wide on Sunday morning following the winning double that she and husband David picked up at Te Rapa on Saturday. The Cambridge couple had just the two runners entered for the day and managed to book-end the programme when taking out the first event with[...]

Posted on December 20, 2020
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Promising three-year-old Mongolian Wings showed he could be on a similar path to his illustrious sire when he produced an eye-catching display to shed his maiden status at Te Rapa. The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained gelding is by triple Group 1 winner Mongolian Khan who scooped a Group 1 Derby double in his three-year-old[...]

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

A week on from a dominant performance at Te Rapa last Saturday, star jockey Opie Bosson returns to the same venue this weekend with another formidable book of rides. Bosson rode four winners on the nine-race Premier programme last week, including the highly impressive age-group performers Sword Of State and Brando. Despite making a late[...]

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

Enigmatic stayer In A Twinkling was on his best behaviour as he secured his second Group 3 Franklin Auctions Counties Cup (2100m) with a gritty effort on Saturday. The Jamie Richards-trained five-year-old can be a headstrong character at times and has tested Richard’s patience on numerous occasions. However, when his mind is on the job,[...]

Posted on November 22, 2020
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Talented mare Media Sensation backed up an eye-catching performance at the Ellerslie trials earlier this month with a comprehensive front-running effort to take out the feature event for the fillies and mares at Pukekohe on Saturday, the Group 2 Dunstan Feeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m). Successful at the elite level as a three-year-old when[...]

Posted on November 15, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The potent combination of trainer Jamie Richards and rider Opie Bosson were back doing what they do best on Saturday — winning Group 1 races — as they combined to guide Kahma Lass to victory in the Group 1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton. Wearing the colours of Cambridge Stud proprietors[...]

Posted on November 15, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

In a battle that most pundits expected, speedy two-year-old Avonallo turned the tables on rival Follow Your Dreams to take out Saturday’s Listed Frantic Bloodstock Welcome Stakes (1000m) at Riccarton. The pair had met on two occasions previously over 800m where Follow Your Dreams had the edge on Avonallo, however a rise in distance to[...]

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 4, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainers Emma-Lee and David Browne have a nice stayer on their hands, with Gone West calling on his stamina reserves under a well-timed Opie Bosson ride when winning the Blue Bubble Taxis 2100 at Ellerslie on Tuesday. The four-year-old gelding had previously shown his staying prowess when successful at Tauranga in mid-October on a[...]

Posted on October 19, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Progressive galloper Swords Drawn threw his hat into the ring for some of the upcoming summer staying features when he stormed home from near last to score impressively over 1600m to close out this year’s Hawke’s Bay Spring carnival. Placed twice in stakes company as a three-year-old, the now five-year-old Camelot gelding has always looked[...]

On The Bubbles produces champagne performance

Avantage all class in Railway victory

Derby contenders unleashed at Rotorua

Leading riders to the fore on Boxing Day

Amarelinha the latest bright young talent in tangerine

Exciting colt on proven Levin Classic path

In A Twinkling out for Group 1 glory

Te Rapa double brings Christmas cheer to Browne stable

Familiar look to impressive Te Rapa maiden winner

Another strong Te Rapa book for Bosson

In A Twinkling wins second Counties Cup

Media Sensation dominates on-speed in Group 2 feature

Bosson and Richards combine for 1000 Guineas triumph

Avonallo turns tables in Welcome Stakes

Richards chasing Trans-Tasman features

Gone West going places

Swords Drawn ready to go to the next level

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