Sacred Elixir

Pike quartet Australia bound

Posted on May 3, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Tony Pike knows how to make an impact at the Queensland Winter Carnival, having saddled the likes of The Bostonian, Sacred Elixir and Provocative to Group One success in the Sunshine State. The New Zealand horseman is again plotting a raid in search of Aussie dollars, with four young members of his team venturing across[...]

Posted on February 3, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is looking forward to autumn racing with a couple of last season’s Classic winners after their pleasing trials at Rotorua on Tuesday. Group 1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) winner Loire showed a good turn of foot when coming from the back of the field to take out her 1000m heat[...]

Posted on January 20, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Fairytales don’t often come true, but Tony Pike is very hopeful that comeback horse Sacred Elixir can provide him with one. Sacred Elixir was one of the Cambridge trainer’s best horses, winning the Group 1 J J Atkins (1600m) in Brisbane and finishing second in the Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m), both in 2016. Sent[...]

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[...]

Pike quartet Australia bound

Classic winners impress at Rotorua

Pike turns back the clock with Sacred Elixir

Famous colours to the fore in Anniversary

Pike unleashes emerging stars at Ellerslie

Million outlook bright for unraced colt

Pike team out in force at Ellerslie

Sacred Elixir back in New Zealand

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