Sacred Elixir

Famous colours to the fore in Anniversary

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

Six decades on from the heyday of the legendary sprinter Yahabeebe, the same colours have played a starring role at Trentham. Super Strike stepped up to stakes level for the first time and triumphed in Saturday’s Group 3 Wellington Seamarket Anniversary Handicap (1600m). It was the fifth win of a nine-start career for the rising[...]

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

There’s an irony in the expectation of performance from Tony Pike’s pair of Group 2 Barneswood Farm Eclipse Stakes (1200m) runners Khufu and Stormy that’s not lost on the Cambridge trainer. TAB bookmakers have hype-horse Khufu as a second favourite for the two-year-old feature behind impressive Te Rapa debut winner Sword Of State at despite[...]

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

Punters who have taken the about unraced juvenile Khufu in next month’s $1m Doubletree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) can breathe a little easier after the son of American Pharoah looked all class when winning an 800m trial at Cambridge on Tuesday. The Tony Pike-trained colt has long impressed trial-watchers but will make a[...]

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

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike had a number of talented gallopers in action at the Ellerslie trials on Tuesday, including comeback galloper Sacred Elixir. The now six-year-old was retired from racing in Hong Kong after a suspensory injury, with his most recent run in November 2017. Pike, who prepared the son of Pour Moi to win[...]

Posted on June 27, 2019
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1 winner Sacred Elixir returned to New Zealand from his former Hong Kong base on Wednesday morning and a scan has revealed positive signs that the injured son of Pour Moi will make a raceday return in his homeland. Formerly trained in New Zealand by Cambridge conditioner Tony Pike, Sacred Elixir won three Group[...]

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