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Versatile sprinter on Railway path

Posted on September 21, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Stephen Ralph knows it is a big step up from an open handicap win at Ruakaka to the Group 1 Sistema Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year's day but he is confident he has the horse that can take that leap in versatile customer New York Jazz. The five-year-old Niagara gelding stormed home[...]

Posted on June 19, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Stephen Ralph can't wait to be back at the races this weekend, with up to eight runners set to represent his Te Awamutu stable at the Counties meeting at Pukekohe Park on Saturday. Full fields and 11 races are the order of a bumper day, which marks the first time thoroughbred racing will take[...]

Posted on July 21, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Free-going seven-year-old Admiral bounced back to winning form with an all-the-way victory in open company at Te Rapa on Saturday. The Stephen Ralph-trained gelding thrives on winter tracks and found the Heavy10 surface just to his liking as he set his race rivals a merry chase in the 1600m contest. Rider Trudy Thornton had Admiral[...]

Posted on July 5, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Te Awamutu horseman Stephen Ralph has experienced one of his biggest seasons-to-date and he can now call himself a Group 1-winning trainer after the deeds of Santa Monica in the Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year's Day. It was a career highlight for Ralph who later in the season picked up his second stakes[...]

Versatile sprinter on Railway path

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