Opie Bosson

Johnson delighted with Group One pick-up ride

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

A lot can change in a week and the misfortune of the races being abandoned mid program at Te Aroha has resulted in leading jockey Danielle Johnson picking up the plumb ride on Avantage in Saturday’s rescheduled Group 1 Fiber Fresh New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa. Opie Bosson was originally engaged[...]

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

Star filly Amarelinha has given champion jockey Opie Bosson just the confidence boost he was looking for ahead of a trip to Sydney to partner her in Saturday week’s A$1 million Group 1 Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick. Bosson rode Amarelinha in a 1200m open trial at Ellerslie on Tuesday and was delighted with the[...]

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

Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman landed an early double at Pukekohe on Wednesday, with promising three-year-olds Daqiansweet Junior and Granados both scoring over 2100m and shaping as stayers of the future. Daqiansweet Junior took plenty of confidence from a maiden win at Matamata last week and took the step up to Rating 65[...]

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

Talented three-year-old Amarelinha gave her rivals a galloping lesson as she claimed a brilliant victory in the Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) at Trentham. The Jamie Richards-trained Savabeel filly had been expected to dominate proceedings after winning four of her last five starts, but even the best laid plans can[...]

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

Opie Bosson will chase a fifth win in Saturday’s Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m), a race he has only ridden in sporadically in recent years. The Waikato jockey has won the Trentham three-year-old fillies Classic on She’s Country (in 2000), Bramble Rose (2003), Princess Coup (2007) and Keep The Peace[...]

Posted on March 14, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Quality two-year-old Sword Of State and rider Opie Bosson made it a one-horse affair at Ellerslie on Saturday when they blitzed their rivals in the Group 1 Sistema Stakes (1200m). Sent out a dominant favourite off the back of a six-length win in the Group 3 Waikato Stud Slipper (1200m) on his home track at[...]

Posted on March 8, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Punters who thought the result of the Group 3 McKee Family Sunline Vase (2100m) was a foregone conclusion when installing glamour filly Amarelinha a red-hot favourite for the race were left hanging on the result of the photo-finish to a thrilling contest in the fillies feature. Most expected Amarelinha to carry on her winning way[...]

Posted on March 1, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Avantage continued her march into the realms of super stardom when she made it career Group One number eight with a gritty win in the Group 1 El Cheapo Cars Weight-For-Age Classic (1600m). Unbeaten in three starts, all at Group One level, in her current campaign, Avantage was confidently expected to take Otaki’s elite feature[...]

Posted on February 14, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

In what most pundits deemed a match race between Avantage and Levante, it was marvellous mare Avantage who triumphed as she made it seven career Group One wins when taking out a superb victory in the Group 1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa. The opportunity to see two of the best mares racing[...]

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

Champion trainer Jamie Richards is hoping he will witness history being made at Te Rapa on Saturday when Melody Belle contests the Group 1 Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m). New Zealand’s darling of the turf equalled Sunline’s record of 13 Group One wins when victorious in the Thorndon Mile (1600m) at Trentham last start, and she[...]

Posted on January 30, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Outstanding mare Melody Belle has resumed with a victory in the Thorndon Mile to equal the record for most Group One wins by a New Zealand-trained horse.

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
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

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[...]

Johnson delighted with Group One pick-up ride

Sydney sojourn for Bosson

Baker-Forsman unleash promising 3YO stayers

Amarelinha brilliant in New Zealand Oaks victory

Bosson eyes fifth win in New Zealand Oaks with Amarelinha

Bosson puts rivals to the sword in Sistema Stakes

Te Akau Racing enjoy black type bonanza at Ellerslie

Avantage secures eighth Group One victory

Super seven for Avantage in Te Rapa sprint feature

History making day in the offing for Te Akau

Melody Belle Equals Sunline’s Group 1 Record

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

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