Stephen Ralph

New York Jazz proves too tough on favourite track

Posted on June 20, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Evergreen New Zealand sprinter New York Jazz capped off a run of solid form when he showed just how tough he is in a tight finish taking out the Matost 60th Celebration (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. The Stephen Ralph-trained six-year-old brought up career win number eight and his third at Te Rapa when[...]

Posted on March 15, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand mare, One More Time, has changed hands three times already and was the subject of further buyer interest in the lead-up to her impressive last-start open handicap victory at Ellerslie. The four-year-old was on a quick back-up on Sunday, having finished sixth in the Group 3 King’s Plate (1200m) the previous weekend after[...]

Posted on April 26, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Underrated galloper Manrico extended his love affair with the Ellerslie racecourse when he posted his third win in his last four starts at the venue on Saturday. The Stephen Ralph-trained six-year-old has come of age this campaign, winning four of his eight starts since New Year’s Day and banking over $93,000 in prizemoney for Ralph[...]

Posted on December 14, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Twenty-four hours on from the biggest win in his fledgling career, apprentice jockey Callum Jones is still having trouble coming to terms with his achievement. The eighteen-year-old, in his first full season of riding, pulled off a daring mid-race move on the Bill Pomare-trained Ocean Billy in Saturday’s Group 3 SKYCITY Hamilton Waikato Cup (2400m)[...]

Posted on December 4, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

With an overseas sale off the agenda for now, Te Awamutu trainer Stephen Ralph is free to dream big with highly talented three-year-old Explosively – starting with a first black-type test in Saturday’s Group 3 Mitchell Family Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie. Offshore offers have circled the son of Sweynesse throughout this spring, following an[...]

Posted on November 26, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Talented three-year-old Explosively lived up to his name when winning on debut at Te Rapa on Wednesday. The Stephen Ralph-trained gelding exploded out of the gates for apprentice jockey Tegan Newman to take an early lead in the Website Angels 1200. The pair didn’t relinquish their advantage and opened up in the home straight to[...]

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 August 27, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The joy of achieving a winning double at Matamata on Saturday was tempered slightly for apprentice Tegan Newman when she copped a week’s suspension for a whip infraction at the Te Aroha meeting on Sunday. Newman had been cock-a-hoop after piloting the Daniel Miller-trained React and the Stephen Ralph-trained New York Jazz to victory at[...]

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 August 8, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trudy Thornton will cut an imposing figure to her rival jockeys as she walks out to ride at Pukekohe on Saturday. Thornton stood herself down from her final ride at Te Rapa last weekend after her mount Mister Gerinomo clipped heels in an incident that led to Anna Jones copping a four-week suspension. However, Thornton[...]

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[...]

Posted on June 2, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Jumps racing returns to Ellerslie on Monday and Te Awamutu trainer Stephen Ralph is one of many who can’t wait for the action to get underway. The Ellerslie track was out of commission during the winter months last year as track renovations were conducted so Monday’s scheduled jumping events will be the first held at[...]

New York Jazz proves too tough on favourite track

Per Incanto’s daughter a popular mare

Manrico adds another victory at favourite venue

Stakes success still sinking in for young apprentice

Bonecrusher test for Explosively

Australia beckons Explosive three-year-old

Versatile sprinter on Railway path

Bittersweet weekend for Newman

Speedy Meady set to fly over 800

Strong Pukekohe book for battered-and-bruised Thornton

Admiral proves hard to catch at Te Rapa

Standout season for Ralph

Ralph ready to continue dream Ellerslie run