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Weatherley achieves personal goal at Awapuni

Posted on April 4, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Sam Weatherley went into the 2021/22 racing season with two major goals. One was to ride the winner of a $1 million race in New Zealand and the other was to add a second Group One victory to his career record. He achieved the first of those milestones aboard the Te Akau Racing runner Pin[...]

Posted on January 26, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Sam Weatherley enjoyed his biggest pay day as a jockey at Ellerslie on Saturday and is now looking forward to another potentially rewarding meeting at the other end of the island this weekend. He combined with the Jamie Richards-trained Pin Me Up to land the thick end of the stake in the Karaka Million 3YO[...]

Posted on January 24, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

On a night he has made somewhat his own in recent years, trainer Jamie Richards scooped a second NZD$1million prize at Ellerslie on Saturday when Pin Me Up scored an upset victory in the Karaka Million 3YO (1600m). After snaring a sixth consecutive Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) with Dynastic just two races earlier, Richards was[...]

Posted on January 24, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The more things change, the more they stay the same was the feeling after the running of the Doubletree By Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday. On a night that generates enormous interest throughout New Zealand it was the familiar tangerine and blue racing colours of Te Akau Racing carried by the[...]

Posted on January 24, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Talented three-year-old colt Sword Of State shrugged off an indifferent Australian spring campaign to display his true class when he dominated his rivals in the Group 3 Cambridge Stud Almanzor Trophy (1200m) at Ellerslie. Wearing the colours of Brendan and Jo Lindsay, who co-own the colt and sponsored the race, the son of Snitzel sat[...]

Posted on January 18, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

It's a bittersweet week for trainer Jamie Richards as he gets ready for his final tilt at the Karaka Million at the helm of Te Akau Racing's Matamata stable. In May, Richards will depart New Zealand shores for his new home of Hong Kong where he has accepted an invitation from the Hong Kong Jockey[...]

Posted on January 8, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Jamie Richards' attack on the Karaka Million 2YO (Listed, 1200m) currently rests with a quartet of youngsters, but the chances of a fifth member of the stable chasing the NZD $1 million pot of gold is looking highly likely. Te Akau Racing's head trainer has Grace ‘N' Grey, Lord Cosmos, Fellini and Dynastic all guaranteed[...]

Weatherley achieves personal goal at Awapuni

Weatherley hoping his luck holds at Trentham

Richards collects another Karaka Million feature

Bosson and Te Akau Racing take Karaka Million 2YO

Sword Of State back with a vengeance at Ellerslie

Richards set for final Karaka Million

Richards hoping to add to Million line-up

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