Zabeel Classic

Bonny filly ready for Breeders’ Stakes

Posted on April 28, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Valuable New Zealand filly Bonny Lass is in prime order for Saturday’s Group 3 Inglis Sales Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa where she will bid to add to her burgeoning record. The daughter of Super Easy proved herself a match for the best juveniles last season and it’s been more of the same[...]

Posted on April 7, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand Racegoers won’t see any more of the promising Pukekohe three-year-old Midnight Mass this season despite a nice victory for the firm track specialist at Avondale last Saturday. The son of Proisir came from last on the bend for jockey Sam Spratt and won narrowly from the filly Maria, to whom he was conceding[...]

Posted on March 18, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Last Sunday’s Group 2 Auckland Cup (3200m) marked the final public outings for high-class gallopers Concert Hall and Sound, who signed off by finishing second and third respectively behind Central Districts visitor Uareastar. Retirement had been earmarked for both seven-year-old mare Concert Hall and nine-year-old entire Sound, and stud careers beckon the pair who ran[...]

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

New Zealand jockey Ashvin Goindasamy loves upsetting in big races at Ellerslie and he did it again on Saturday when guiding Levin visitor Hinepara to victory in the Group 2 Wallen Concreting Avondale Cup (2400m). Goindasamy had registered his biggest career win aboard Tiptronic in the Group 1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at the venue on[...]

Posted on February 10, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand trainer Graham Richardson says Tiptronic is as good as ever heading into one of his favourite races, the Group 1 Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. Tiptronic will be having his fourth go at the weight-for-age showcase on Saturday. In his previous attempts he finished second at odds to On[...]

Posted on January 27, 2022
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Cambridge trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood are well on their way toward their most successful season since forming a training partnership at the beginning of the 2018-19 term. Their top tally to date was 30 winners in that initial season and they are currently sitting on 20 with a best ever mark of six[...]

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

The Stephen Marsh-trained Masetto prepared for a tilt at the Group 1 Thorndon Mile (1600m) by winning a high-quality 1200m trial at Te Rapa on Wednesday. The six-year-old gelding finished fifth in the Group 2 Rich Hill Mile (1600m) in his first run for Marsh, who is the fifth trainer of the four-time winner, who[...]

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

Matamata trainer Graham Richardson left his local meeting a happy man on Wednesday after witnessing two of his runners quinella a star-studded trial. Last start Group One winner Tiptronic beat out stablemate, Group One performer Bonny Lass, to win his sedately run 1050m heat, which included Group One winners On The Bubbles, Sword Of State,[...]

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

A recent injury prevented popular owner-breeder Joan Egan from attending the New Year’s Day races at Ellerslie on Saturday, but her pride and joy Concert Hall gave her a timely boost with a masterful performance in the Group 3 Skycity City of Auckland Cup (2400m). The high-class daughter of Savabeel was backing up from the[...]

Posted on December 27, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Veteran galloper Tiptronic led all the way to take out his second career Group One prize when he captured the Group 1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie. The Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall-trained eight-year-old had hinted he could return to his best form when finishing on strongly for third in the Group 1[...]

Posted on December 25, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Consistent performer Prise De Fer has multiple top-flight placings to his credit and the Jamie Richards-trained representative is in top order for Ellerslie where he will attempt to breakthrough at the highest level on Boxing Day. The genuine son of Savabeel will take aim at the Group 1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m), in which[...]

Posted on December 24, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Top-class jockey Vinnie Colgan will be reunited with quality mare Two Illicit in the Group 1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) on Sunday and should the Roger James and Robert Wellwood-trained five-year-old salute, no one would begrudge the veteran hoop success. Two Illicit enters the Ellerslie contest on the back of a devastating win in[...]

Posted on December 22, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard will have numbers and class in their favour for the Group 1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) on Boxing Day. The Matamata training partnership is set to have three runners in the weight-for-age contest at Ellerslie, with two of them – Harlech and Sound – both looking like solid chances.[...]

Posted on December 21, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Two-year-old debutant Kana raced into contention for the NZD$1million Doubletree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie next month with an impressive victory on her home track at Awapuni on Saturday. The statuesque daughter of Waikato Stud-based stallion Tivaci had been expected to be too good for her four rivals in the juvenile dash[...]

Posted on December 17, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

An overkill of rain might yet foil Awapuni trainer Peter Didham’s cunning plan. Didham had planned to use last Saturday’s Group 2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa as a lead-up to the Group 1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day for his smart mare House Of Cartier. But when the rain[...]

Posted on December 14, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group Three winner All Saints’ Eve had her first hit-out on home soil at Arawa Park on Monday and new trainer Stephen Marsh is excited about her prospects over the summer. Bred by trans-Tasman powerhouses Waikato Stud and Rosemont Stud, the daughter of Sacred Falls was raced by the pair with Isabella O’Shea, whose husband[...]

Posted on December 14, 2021
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Four wins during the week including a double at Te Rapa on Saturday has trainer Pam Gerard excited about the prospects for her Ballymore Stables team leading into the busiest period of racing in the country over the summer months. After wins earlier in the week by Myrtle Creek and Let’s Say Grace, exciting sprinter/miler[...]

Bonny filly ready for Breeders’ Stakes

Midnight Mass heads to spelling paddock

Auckland Cup placegetters bow out

Hinepara upsets in Avondale Cup

Tiptronic thriving ahead of Herbie Dyke

Trainers hoping good times continue to roll

Thorndon focus for Te Rapa triallers

Exciting times ahead for Richardson

Concert Hall delivers tonic for Egan

Warhorse Tiptronic triumphs in Zabeel Classic

Richards can’t fault Group One hope Prise De Fer

Colgan eager to make up for lost Group One

Three-pronged attack on Zabeel Classic for Ballymore

Kana leaps into Karaka Million 2YO contention

Didham in a quandary with House Of Cartier

Homecoming for All Saints’ Eve

Ballymore Stable winding into form as Christmas approaches

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