Windsor Park Plate

Beaten brigade set their sights on Windsor Park Plate

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

The Group 1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings in a fortnight is shaping as another standout contest based on the comments from connections of the horses who finished in behind Saturday's upset winner of the Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m), Callsign Mav. Form analysts will be casting their eyes over video replays of the[...]

Posted on September 15, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Danica Guy couldn't be happier with her talented galloper Germanicus as the five-year-old begins a Group 1 programme of assignments this season at Hastings on Saturday. The Matamata trainer has Germanicus set to resume in the Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m), in which he will be ridden by Chad Ormsby, his rider in each of[...]

Posted on September 13, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The cream rose to the top late in the day at Ellerslie when four-year-old mare Two Illicit issued a powerful statement to her spring rivals with a commanding fresh-up victory over 1400m on Saturday. A multiple stakes winner during a three-year-old campaign that culminated in a runner-up finish in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby[...]

Posted on September 10, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

A trip to Taupo to bring on the fitness of talented mares Two Illicit and Concert Hall has received a hearty tick of approval from Cambridge trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood. The Kingsclere training partnership couldn't have been happier with the gallop, or the hospitality, with the pair provided with “delicious” scones, topped with[...]

Posted on August 24, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Prolific Group One winner Melody Belle will return to New Zealand and take no further part in the Australian spring following two unplaced runs in Sydney. John Galvin, director of her ownership group Fortuna Syndications, confirmed the mare had been booked on a flight home. While her owners have been satisfied with Melody Belle's performances,[...]

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

Group 1-winning mare Glory Days returned from retirement at the Foxton trials on Tuesday where she finished fourth in her 1000m heat. The Bill Thurlow-trained eight-year-old failed to fire after returning from her spring campaign in Melbourne last spring and was subsequently retired after her fourth-placing in the Listed New Zealand St Leger (2600m) at[...]

Posted on July 27, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Outstanding three-year-old Travelling Light will head to Ruakaka next week as she continues her preparation for a raceday return in early September. Trainer Ben Foote is delighted with the El Roca filly, who won five of her seven starts in her first campaign including the Group 1 Levin Classic (1600m) and will use the trip[...]

Posted on April 16, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Te Awamatu trainer Clayton Chipperfield is thanking his lucky stars that he has his 60 acre property to keep him busy over the Covid-19 alert level four lockdown period. “I don't know how these people are getting on in town,” Chipperfield said. “We have got 60 acres, so there is still plenty of work to[...]

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

Triple Group 1 winner Gingernuts will once again return to the scene of his Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) triumph when he leads out the field for the Vodafone-sponsored blue riband event at Ellerslie on Saturday. The 2017 Derby hero confirmed his status as one of the best staying three-year-olds in Australasia by winning[...]

Posted on October 2, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The New Zealand TAB has paid out on champion Melody Belle to win the Hastings Group One triple crown before the final leg has been run. Melody Belle is the short-priced favourite to add Saturday's Livamol Classic (2040m) to her wins in the Tarzino Trophy and Windsor Park Plate. If she is successful, she will[...]

Posted on September 22, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Recently crowned New Zealand Horse of the Year, Melody Belle made it Group 1 victory number eight in emphatic fashion when she dominated her rivals in the Group 1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings. The Jamie Richards-trained five-year-old repeated her deeds of last season when she took out Saturday's feature event after capturing the[...]

Posted on September 22, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand champion Melody Belle has won her eighth Group One race to keep the Cox Plate in the mix. First the mare will try to win the triple crown at home having taken the first two legs, the Tarzino Trophy and Saturday's Windsor Park Plate at Hastings. The recently crowned NZ Horse of the[...]

Posted on September 20, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1 performer Vernanme has been lapping up the beach life at trainer Stephen Marsh's satellite stable at Ruakaka during his spring preparation, but it has been back to reality this week for the talented galloper. The son of O'Reilly is preparing for his first stakes test of the spring at Counties on Sunday, the[...]

Posted on September 20, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman will have two chances in the Group 1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings on Saturday. Group 3 winner Mongolian Marshal heads into the race off a pleasing placing first-up over 1400m at Ellerslie earlier this month and Forsman believes he will benefit from the step-up to the[...]

Posted on September 20, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Reigning New Zealand Horse of the Year Melody Belle may have caught TAB bookmakers off-guard when paying $5.60 after winning the Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) last month, but they have ensured that they will not be caught out again by the star mare. She went against her usual running pattern after jumping away slowly,[...]

Posted on September 8, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Trainer Graeme Rogerson is looking forward to the second day of the Bostock New Zealand Spring Racing Carnival at Hastings later this month despite the unfortunate loss of progressive five-year-old Comeback. The Makfi gelding was humanely euthanised following his gritty run for sixth in the Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings on August 31[...]

Posted on September 4, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Fortuna Syndications Director, John Galvin, has confirmed Opie Bosson will ride Melody Belle in the second leg of the Hawke's Bay Racing Triple Crown, the Group 1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m), taking over from Michael McNab who has ridden the mare in her past two outings, including last Saturday's comprehensive victory in the Group 1[...]

Beaten brigade set their sights on Windsor Park Plate

Group 1 assignments in store for Germanicus

Two Illicit makes stunning return at Ellerslie

Star Kingsclere mares kick-off spring campaigns

Melody Belle Set To Return To New Zealand

Glory Days returns

Travelling Light on target for Te Rapa feature

Trainer staying chipper over lockdown

Retired star Gingernuts adds extra crunch to Derby Day

NZ Tab Pays Out On Melody’s Triple Crown

Melody Belle keeps Triple Crown dream alive with Windsor Park Plate win

Cox Plate Still In Mix For Melody Belle

Beach life agrees with Vernanme

Two-pronged Windsor Park attack for Baker-Forsman

Te Akau stars set to shine

Rogerson upbeat despite loss of top performer

Bosson back on Belle

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