Zabeel Classic

Supera surging towards finishing line

Posted on December 11, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Ken and Bev Kelso would love nothing more than for classy mare Supera to sign off her career with a win. The Sir Peter Vela-bred and raced Savabeel mare contests Saturday's Group 2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa at what shapes as the second-to-last start of her career. “She's in foal and she[...]

Posted on December 11, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 3 features at Te Rapa on Saturday could be the starting point of a special summer for Lauren Brennan. The Cambridge trainer has strong contenders for both the Group 3 Skycity Hamilton Waikato Cup (2400m) and Group 3 J Swap Sprint (1400m), while proven Group 1 performer Vadavar is right on target for the[...]

Posted on November 17, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group 1 performer Supera will resume what will be her last preparation when she tackles the Group 2 Dunstan Feeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes (1400m) at Pukekohe on Saturday. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained six-year-old sustained a minor foot issue that ruled her out of the Group 1 Livamol Classic (2040m) at Hastings last month[...]

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

Progressive galloper Paisley Park bounced back to winning form when he out-finished his rivals over 1600m at Ellerslie on Saturday. The Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (2400m) winner earlier in the year at the venue was having his third start in a new campaign and looked ready for a big performance based on his first[...]

Posted on October 14, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Star mare Melody Belle, who was named New Zealand Horse of the Year for the second year in succession on Sunday night, will be out to land her 12th Group 1 victory when she contests the Livamol Classic (2040m) at Hastings on Saturday. Connections have paid a late-entry to supplement the Jamie Richards-trained mare for[...]

Posted on October 14, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Group One winner Tiptronic bypassed the first two legs of the Hawke's Bay Spring Carnival and trainers Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall are hoping a less travelled path will benefit him at Hastings on Saturday. The son of O'Reilly will line-up in the Group 1 Livamol Classic (2040m) after carrying big weights in his three[...]

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

What a difference a year makes. Expat New Zealand jockey James McDonald rode True Enough to victory in the Thames Cup (1600m) in January and nearly a year later he reunited with the six-year-old gelding to record a Group 1 victory in the Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day. McDonald was[...]

Posted on December 25, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

It is all hands on deck in the Rogerson household again this Christmas as the in-form stable prepares for the Boxing Day races at Ellerslie where they will saddle eight runners, including Group 1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) favourite Beauden. While for most, Christmas means a day of rest and time spent with the[...]

Posted on December 24, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News, Singapore Horse Racing News

Alysha Collett will return to Singapore for a 12-month stint after a brief return home to New Zealand for a Christmas holiday, where she has mixed time with her family in Pukekohe with riding at a handful of race-meetings. Collett reminded New Zealand racing fans of her talent when successful at Te Rapa on Saturday[...]

Posted on December 23, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Fresh from winning with all of his three runners at Flemington on Saturday, Mike Moroney has shifted his focus to New Zealand. The trans-Tasman trainer flew over from Melbourne on Sunday, with Christmas and Ellerslie's Boxing Day races on the agenda. Moroney and co-trainer Pam Gerard will be represented by Pinmedown in the Group 1[...]

Posted on December 23, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Just 12 years after riding his first winner, James McDonald is about to become the youngest person to be inducted to the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame. When his induction takes place at the Hall of Fame gala dinner in Hamilton on May 3, the Sydney-based champion will join 16 other jockeys to have[...]

Posted on December 16, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Champion jockey James McDonald will be on a working holiday when he takes a break from his busy Sydney schedule to return home to Cambridge for Christmas. Despite being in contention for the New South Wales Jockeys Premiership, McDonald is keen to have Christmas in New Zealand with his family, but the trip has been[...]

Posted on December 9, 2019
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Supera ran her race before the Group 1 Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday. That's the summation of Ken Kelso, who trains the daughter of Savabeel with wife Bev. The five-year-old mare was heading into the race off a last-start victory in the Group 2 Tauranga Stakes (1600m) and was duly installed an[...]

Supera surging towards finishing line

Te Rapa to kick off Brennan’s big black-type summer

Broodmare paddock beckons Supera

Paisley Park a summer cups contender

Belle a late entry for Livamol Classic

Livamol test for Tiptronic

McDonald True Enough in Zabeel Classic

Rogerson confident festive season will extend to Boxing Day

Collett looking for Group 1 signoff from Christmas sojourn

Moroney’s focus shifts across Tasman

James McDonald set for Hall of Fame history

Busier Christmas-New Year than McDonald planned

Temperament gets the better of Supera

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