Princess Kereru

Star Kelso mares to gallop at Matamata

Posted on July 31, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1 performers Supera and Princess Kereru will take centre stage early as racing returns to Matamata for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdown on Saturday. Matamata trainers Ken and Bev Kelso will give the pair an exhibition gallop after race one as they prepare for upcoming spring features, while the husband-and-wife duo will[...]

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

Talented three-year-old Shoshone was back to her best as she registered a comprehensive performance to win fresh-up over 1200m at Ellerslie on Saturday. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained filly had won impressively on debut at the venue just over a year ago but a series of niggling issues had limited her to only two further[...]

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

Matamata trainers Ken and Bev Kelso will look to raise the bar for exciting filly Levante after taking her to Te Aroha for Friday's ParkMate.co.nz 1400. The three-year-old daughter of Proisir has had two starts for two highly impressive wins, producing scintillating finishes from the back of the field to win at Matamata on December[...]

Posted on December 24, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Ken and Bev Kelso are happy with Princess Kereru, their Matamata stable's sole Group 1 candidate at the Ellerslie Christmas-New Year Carnival after a leg injury ruled out the stable star Supera. Princess Kereru has been living in the shadow of Supera leading up to the two-day carnival, with Supera the early dominant TAB Fixed[...]

Posted on November 14, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Supera will use Saturday's Group 2 Gartshore Tauranga Stakes (1600m) as a dress rehearsal for a return to Group 1 racing. The Sir Peter Vela-bred and raced Savabeel mare tackled Group 1 company twice last preparation, finishing seventh in the Haunui Farm WFA Classic (1600m) at Otaki on a slow track before her second placing[...]

Posted on October 18, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Ken Kelso isn't enamored with the prospect of running Princess Kereru on a heavy track at Rotorua on Saturday but he's even less hung up on the alternatives. The Matamata trainer will saddle Pins six-year-old mare Princess Kereru in Saturday's Group 3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215m), the weight-for-age conditions of the race making it an attractive[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A return to the Group 1 Sistema Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year's Day remains the primary focus for Princess Kereru this season. The daughter of Pins was beaten by a neck by Santa Monica in the opening Group 1 of the year and trainers Ken and Bev Kelso would dearly love to go[...]

Posted on July 16, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cameron Lammas is in the final stages of his most successful season as a jockey, but it could have been even better. The Rotorua-based horseman, who travels regularly to Matamata to ride trackwork, has earned $1,564,808 in prizemoney and is currently sitting fifth on the New Zealand Jockeys' Premiership, the highest position he has held[...]

Star Kelso mares to gallop at Matamata

Shoshone shines in Ellerslie victory

Unbeaten filly on trial for bigger things

Princess Kereru now in spotlight

Supera favoured for Tauranga feature

Railway hopeful set to resume at Rotorua

Railway redemption for Princess Kereru

Lammas so close to icing on season’s cake

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