Taupo Cup

Mehzebeen claims Taupo Cup

Posted on December 31, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The feature event on the programme at Taupo on Saturday came down to a battle between two of the best riders in the country with victory in the Taupo Cup (2000m) going the way of Michael McNab on Mehzebeen ahead of Town Cryer and Opie Bosson. Bosson, who recently became only the eighth local jockey[...]

Posted on December 29, 2023
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Robbie Patterson has already successfully raided the Group 3 Counties Cup (2100m) this season, and the New Plymouth trainer has another two northern staying features in his sights over the next few days. Patterson trained a career-best 50 winners last season and has started 2023-24 in a similar vein. He already has 20 wins to[...]

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

Town Cryer is presented with an ideal opportunity to open her middle-distance account when she takes aim at the Taupo Cup (2000m) on Saturday. The multiple stakes-winning daughter of Tavistock has been lightly tried beyond 1600m and trainer Roydon Bergerson is looking forward to this weekend's challenge, despite his charge giving weight to the rest[...]

Posted on December 29, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Tony Pike is bullish about the chances of Tutukaka in Friday's Taupo Cup (2000m) with the step up in trip on a good surface fuelling his confidence. The Cambridge trainer also has the capable Field Of Gold in the Harcourts-sponsored feature and while he has been happy with his lead-up work, it's Tutukaka who gets[...]

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

New Zealand trainer Patrick Campbell has unfinished business with Saturday's Listed Power Farming Hawke's Bay Cup (2200m) on his home track of Hastings. Campbell has targeted the race on several occasions but has come up empty-handed so far, a record he'd love to set straight with topweight Hunta Pence this weekend. “It's been a horrible[...]

Posted on December 31, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A NZD$65,000 stake attracted a strong line-up for this year's running of the Harcourts Taupo Cup (2000m) on Thursday and Hawke's Bay trainer Patrick Campbell was delighted to take home the lion's share of the purse courtesy of his evergreen galloper Hunta Pence. The nine-year-old gelding was runner-up over 2100m at Awapuni earlier this month[...]

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

Owner Joan Egan is having a week to remember. On Boxing Day she won the Group 1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie with Concert Hall, and on Wednesday the Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained Beauden won the Taupo Cup (2000m) emphatically in front of a bumper crowd. The son of Bullbars began well from barrier six[...]

Posted on December 30, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Bulls trainer Bryce Newman wanted a tough run for his stayer Gorbachev ahead of next month's Group 3 NZ Campus Of Innovation & Sport Wellington Cup (3200m) and that is just what jockey Ryan Elliot delivered in their Harcourts Taupo Cup With Fasttrack $5K (2000m) victory on Monday. Last season's Wellington Cup winner was sent[...]

Mehzebeen claims Taupo Cup

Robbie Patterson hunting feature success

Town Cryer set for rise in trip in Taupo Cup

Pike keen on Tutukaka’s Cup hopes

Campbell hoping to set Cup record straight

Campbell tickled pink with Taupo Cup triumph

Stakes target for Beauden

Gorbachev takes out Taupo Cup

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