Riverton Cup

Lochnaberry poised for Riverton Cup tilt

Posted on March 27, 2024
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Ascot Park trainer Lisa Vaughan will head to Riverton on Saturday where she hopes to make it back-to-back wins in the Riverton Cup (2147m). Former stable runner Asathought, a half-sister to multiple Group One winner Avantage, won last year's edition of the race when it held Listed status, and while it has lost its stakes[...]

Posted on April 19, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Game New Zealand mare Wannabe ‘N' Paris capped a wonderful day at Riverton on Monday for trainer Paul Harris when she refused to relent in the home straight to take home the major spoils in the Listed Carriers Arms Hotel Riverton Cup (2147m). Sent straight to the front by rider Chris Johnson, the five-year-old daughter[...]

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

New Zealand trainers Ian and Kerry Taplin are looking to make the most of an interrupted weekend of racing on their nearby home patch at Riverton on Monday before heading for a ten-day break in Queensland to secure a new base for their future training aspirations. After five years of contemplating a move across the[...]

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

Asathought will crown herself as Queen of Southland's stayers with success in Saturday's Listed Carriers Arms Hotel Riverton Cup (2147m). The So You Think half-sister to multiple Group One winner Avantage has already won the Gore Cup (2000m) and the Invercargill Cup (2600m) and looks on track to complete the sweep of Southland's feature staying[...]

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

New Zealand South Island trainer Lisa Vaughan is on the lookout for black type success for Asathought after the well-related mare won the Baillie & Lewis Pharmacy Invercargill Gold Cup (2600m) on Saturday. Asathought benefited from settling closer than usual to the speed at Ascot Park, trailing and then sitting one off the fence for[...]

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

Riverton trainer Kelvin Tyler has a team of up to ten runners primed for the last South Island race meeting of the current season next weekend, as he and daughter Aimee try to capture the title of leading South Island-based trainer in 2020/21. The Tyler twosome are currently tied with the Riccarton-based Michael and Matthew[...]

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

While there are still a couple of months to go this season, New Zealand trainer Kelvin Tyler has already comfortably retained his crown as Southland's top trainer. The Riverton horseman, who trains in partnership with his daughter Aimee, has amassed 46 wins to date this season, surpassing his previous best of 39 victories in the[...]

Posted on April 4, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainers Kelvin and Aimee Tyler enjoyed a red-letter day on their home track at Riverton on Saturday, winning three races including the day's feature, the Listed Carriers Arms Hotel Riverton Cup (2147m), with Our Boy Ritchie. The father and daughter partnership kicked their day off by producing impressive two-year-old debutant Classic Diva to win comfortably[...]

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

Two years on from an agonising nose defeat in the Listed Carriers Arms Hotel Riverton Cup (2147m), the father-son training partnership of Graham and Michael Eade are back to try to go one better in their home-track feature on Saturday. The Eades saddled Orepuki Lad in the 2019 edition of the $50,000 showpiece, and after[...]

Posted on March 31, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The annual Riverton Cup meeting is one local horseman Kelvin Tyler looks forward to every year, but he said it is not without its pressure. “It is something to look forward to and something I look forward to being over too,” Tyler quipped. “There is a bit of pressure, but I am looking forward to[...]

Lochnaberry poised for Riverton Cup tilt

Harris caps superb day with Riverton Cup victory

Taplins looking for final hurrah before Queensland move

Invercargill mare chasing sweep of Southland Cups

Asathought tastes Ascot gold

Leading South Island trainer title up for grabs at Oamaru

New Zealand’s King of the South marches on

Local runner takes out Riverton Cup

Eades hoping to go one better in Riverton Cup

Tyler looking forward to home cup

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