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Family Ties provides timely RTR reminder

Posted on November 14, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Three-year-old filly Family Ties capitalised on a patient ride by champion apprentice Joe Kamaruddin to win the Transport/Hatuma Lime 3YO Maiden (1300m) on Sunday at Hastings. Having produced a good debut effort for third in a maiden won by subsequent Group Two winning stablemate Wild Night, Family Ties sustained a strong finish in centre track[...]

Posted on September 6, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Outstanding mare Probabeel has joined an elite club with her second successive New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Award. The now retired daughter of Savabeel, who is preparing for life as a broodmare, gained more than half of the 57 votes cast to retain her title. Probabeel again was named Horse of the Year[...]

Posted on September 1, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Matamata trainer Mark Walker has doubled his team in Christchurch as he builds to lucrative spring targets in the south. To that end, Walker will produce 11 runners at Riccarton this week, four at Thursday’s polytrack meeting and seven on the turf on Saturday. Among those stepping out on Thursday is Zouluminious, a candidate for[...]

Posted on August 30, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Following her sub-par first-up run in the Kerikeri Cup (1100m) earlier this month, Entriviere underwent a veterinary examination and the decision was made to retire the six-year-old from racing. “We had not been entirely happy with Entriviere following her resuming run and a nuclear bone scan has revealed fetlock issues that would see her side-lined[...]

Posted on August 16, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A changing of the guard in Singapore for Te Akau has proved to be a seamless transition with the trainers’ premiership again having a familiar look about it. When four-time title winner Mark Walker returned home earlier this year to take charge of the operation’s New Zealand stable at Matamata, he passed the baton to[...]

Posted on August 2, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Mark Walker has tentatively planned two steps ahead with his trio of Group One winners Entriviere, Imperatriz and On The Bubbles. Te Akau’s head trainer will run all three of his spring contenders in this Saturday’s open 1100m handicap at Ruakaka and they are then likely to head to the Group 2 Waikato Stud Foxbridge[...]

Posted on May 10, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Group 1-winning mare Entriviere will be the sole New Zealand galloper in Saturday's Doomben 10,000 (1200m) field, with Te Akau trainer Mark Walker opting to save three-year-old colt Sword Of State for another day.

Posted on March 21, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News, Singapore Horse Racing News

The world may be in the grips of the Covid-19 epidemic, but it is business as usual for Te Akau’s Singapore trainer Mark Walker. The premiership-leading trainer has been impressed with Singapore’s handling of the virus, which has meant racing has been able to continue on the island nation. “It (Covid-19) hasn’t really affected us[...]

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

The 2018/19 season will live long in the memory of leading New Zealand jockey Opie Bosson. The talented hoop went on to win six Group 1 races, taking his tally to 65, surpassing Hall of Fame jockey Lance O’Sullivan’s previous record of 62 Group 1 victories. “It wasn’t a goal initially, but when I found[...]

Posted on May 10, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Te Akau trainer Jamie Richards will take just the one runner to Arawa Park on Saturday, but that just may be enough to add another stakes win to his burgeoning tally this season. The Matamata horseman will line-up the China Horse Club-owned Sasso Corbaro in the Group 3 ISCL Rotorua Stakes (1400m) and he is[...]

Family Ties provides timely RTR reminder

Probabeel crowned Horse of the Year

Zouluminious building towards Group 2 target

Entriviere retired

Charminto salutes for Te Akau in Singapore

Group 1 winners to return at Ruakaka this weekend

Entriviere flying NZ flag in Doomben 10,000

Business as usual with Singapore racing

Crowning season for Bosson

Te Akau target Trans-Tasman Group races