Month: September 2019

Pike duo pull-up well

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Loire Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is happy with the way his three-year-old fillies Loire and Kali have pulled up after Saturday’s Gr.3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders’ Gold Trail Stakes (1200m). Pike was particularly pleased with Loire’s performance to finish third and believes she will be suited to stepping up to the mile of Novembers’s Gr.1 gavelhouse.com NZ 1000 Guineas. “Loire has come through it in superb order, it was a really good run,” he said. “We knew 1200m was short of her best, hence we put the blinkers on. “She was…

JRA Cup assignment for Glory Days

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Group One-winning stayer Glory Days will take a step closer to the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) when she lines-up at Moonee Valley on Friday. The daughter of Red Giant will compete in the Gr.3 JRA Cup (2040m) and trainer Bill Thurlow has been happy with her progress since her fifth-placing over 1700m at Flemington earlier this month. “I was very happy with her first-up run in Australia, she went well,” he said. “She has got through a bit of work since and seems pretty good. “I am happy enough with…

New Zealand Cup contender for Old

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Super Hoof winning at Te Rapa on Wednesday Photo: Race Images Matamata trainer Glenn Old believes he has a Gr.3 Christchurch Casino New Zealand Cup (3200m) prospect on his hands in lightly-tried five-year-old Super Hoof. The handsome chestnut handled the step-up in grade with aplomb when successful at Te Rapa in the Rating 82 Benchmark Melbourne Cup @ Te Rapa 5 November 2100 on Wednesday. “We think he is potentially a real staying horse of the future,” Old said. “Being a son of Cape Blanco, some of them stick well,…

Battle of the greys first-up for Von Tunzelman

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Dual stakes winner Von Tunzelman will step out for the first time for South Auckland trainers Moira and Kieran Murdoch when he contests the Harold Tuson Memorial Greys (1400m) at New Plymouth on Saturday. Formerly trained in Cambridge by Roger James and Robert Wellwood, his connections are hoping a change of scenery will rejuvenate the seven-year-old son of Zabeel. “He came to us from Roger because he was struggling a bit at Cambridge with his age,” Moira Murdoch said. “He goes to the beach every day. The older horses love…

Destroyer Eclipse looking to bounce back after break

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After two tough runs at elite level, Destroyer Eclipse is dropped back into easier company this Friday with trainer James Peters hopeful of a better showing in the S$70,000 Class 3 race over 1400m in Singapore. The British conditioner took a punt on the Alamosa five-year-old following a game win in a Class 3 race over 1600m on May 19, stepping him up in class to the last two Legs of the Singapore Four-Year-Old Challenge. The Indonesian-owned gelding ran ninth, only just a little over three lengths off the winner…

Vic trainer claims police acted unlawfully

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Horse trainer Jarrod McLean says police gave information to Racing Victoria so it could charge him. Victorian horse trainer Jarrod McLean has accused police of unlawfully giving the state’s racing body information to charge him after a raid. McLean alleges Victoria Police passed on to Racing Victoria details of items seized during the execution of a warrant at his Yangery stables, near Warrnambool in January. But police lawyers argued in the Victorian Supreme Court on Wednesday that the force should disclose potential wrongdoing to regulators. “There is a stand-alone, common…

Anderson/Heathcote to dissolve partnership

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Brisbane trainer Robert Heathcote and his training partner Chris Anderson are to split. The high-profile Brisbane training partnership between Robert Heathcote and Chris Anderson is to be dissolved. Anderson says the two have agreed to an amicable split after joining forces in May. He says he hopes the paperwork will be finalised by October 1 to return to individual stables. “Rob and I have agreed to go our own ways,” Anderson told RadioTAB. “The good thing is we will still be the best of mates. “It’s all about business structure.…

O’Hara ban cut to five weeks on appeal

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Kathy O’Hara’s ban for using her mobile phone during race days was reduced to five weeks on appeal. Kathy O’Hara has had a three-month ban for using her mobile phone during race days reduced from 13 weeks to five. At an inquiry earlier in September, O’Hara pleaded guilty to using her phone in the jockeys’ room on 65 occasions during a 12-month period. Riders are not allowed to use their phones during a race meeting. While Racing NSW stewards found she had used the phone against the rules, an examination…

Allen sees Derby potential in Adelaide Ace

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Adelaide Ace held off fast-finishing Southern Moon to win the Victoria Derby Trial at Flemington. Jockey John Allen knows what it takes to win a Victoria Derby and says Adelaide Ace has the attributes to succeed in the classic. Allen won the Derby in 2018 on the Darren Weir-trained Extra Brut and partnered Adelaide Ace to victory in the Victoria Derby Trial at Flemington on Wednesday. Adelaide Ace is prepared by Lindsey Smith, who won the Derby with Plastered in 2004, and after starting his campaign in Perth is now…

Super Titus to back-up in Group 1 Underwood

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Trainer David Hayes is looking to send Super Titus to the Herbert Power Stakes via the Underwood. After racing too keenly in the Naturalism Stakes, Super Titus will return to Caulfield to race on an eight-day back-up in the Group One Underwood Stakes. Super Titus was an impressive winner of the Listed Heatherlie Handicap over 1700m at Caulfield two starts ago and then went to last Saturday’s Naturalism (2000m) as the $3.60 favourite but finished eighth after over-racing in behind the leaders throughout. The Naturalism was a chance for Super…