Taumarunui Gold Cup

Shaun Phelan hoping duo can improve at Te Rapa

Posted on July 28, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Shaun Phelan is expecting improved showings from his lightweight prospects in the main event on the Te Rapa card on Saturday. The Cambridge trainer holds a decent hand in the Taumarunui RSA Gold Cup (2200m) with Enchanted Elle and Pacheco to go head-to-head and finds it difficult to split the pair. At the other end[...]

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

Enigmatic galloper Suliman may have put a proposed jumping career on hold for the time being as he produced a superior staying effort in testing conditions to take out the Taumarunui RSA Gold Cup (2200m) at Rotorua on Saturday. The rising eight-year-old Redwood gelding had done his early racing from Graham Richardson's Matamata stable where[...]

Posted on July 27, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Nick Bishara capped off a wonderful 2018/19 racing season with a winning double at Rotorua on Saturday including taking out the day's feature event, the RSA Taumarunui Gold Cup (2200m) with Verry Flash. Fresh from taking out the race prior to the feature with promising four-year-old mare Cherry Lane, Bishara was confident he could[...]

Posted on July 26, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

An excited Clayton Chipperfield is preparing for the biggest day of his training career with favourites in both New Zealand features on Saturday. Chipperfield will produce London Bound as a $2.50 favourite in the Listed Courtesy Ford Ryder Stakes (1200m) at Otaki, while Obsessive is a $3 favourite in the RSA Taumarunui Gold Cup (2200m)[...]

Shaun Phelan hoping duo can improve at Te Rapa

Jumping career on hold for Taumarunui Gold Cup winner

Verry Flash takes out Rotorua feature

Chipperfield chasing feature double

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