By Jonny Turner With grass track form on the board, trainer Brad Mowbray’s team is ready to make an impact at Oamaru on Saturday. Mowbray will start recent turf winners Spicy Girl Becqui and She’s Tough alongside maiden Bombolla. She’s Tough looks a key player in race 8, a heat of the Family Feud Drivers Series. The four-year-old comes into race 7 for driver Dylan Ferguson with three starts for two wins on grass and following an excellent last start effort at Ashburton. “She seems to pace a bit better…
Month: November 2020
Selections – Oamaru – 21 November
Selections for today. Head to www.tab.co.nz to place your bet! Race Justin EvansCommentator Mystery TipsterHRNZ Race 112.20pm 4 Falcon’s Monarch 2 Missmollygoodgolly 7 Tyke 5 Iron Woman 2 Missmollygoodgolly 4 Falcon’s Monarch 7 Tyke 5 Iron Woman Race 212.55pm 3 Line A Love 7 Sacred Mountain 4 Random Jude 16 Aveross Majesty 5 Prince Ranier 3 Line A Love 1 Dudes Star 7 Sacred Mountain Race 31.30pm 3 Not Over 11 Santeria 6 Friendly Eyre 2 Bombolla 3 Not Over 6 Friendly Eyre 2 Bombolla 8 Hurchana Race 42.01pm 13 Valley Star 4…
HRNZ Board for 2020/21 Season
Following the HRNZ Annual General Meeting on 18th November 2020, Harness Racing New Zealand is pleased to announce that John Coulam has been elected as the new HRNZ Board Chair, with John Grainger taking up the position of Vice Chair. They replace Ken Spicer and Colin Hair respectively who did not seek re-election for these positions, but will remain on the Board. Colin Hair replaces John Coulam as Finance Chair. It has also been confirmed that new Chief Executive, Gary Woodham, will take up his new role in the New Year,…
Josh Dickie aiming for success both sides of the Tasman
By Michael Guerin The key to why Josh Dickie may be one of the big movers in the New Zealand training ranks could lie in what he won’t be doing with Inter Dominion champion Winterfell this summer. Which is racing him. And the racing Gods could repay Dickie for his impending patience with a group win of a different type this weekend regardless. After a brief but very successful partnership with his father John, Dickie is now out on his own account after his father took a step back from…
Father Patrick’s Date with Destiny
By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Ten-win trotter Destiny Jones has run her last race, with owner-trainer Dean Hunter saying he has his “fingers crossed” that she’ll now become a star in the broodmare paddock. It’s planned to have the nine-year-old mare in foal soon to boom sire Father Patrick, her swansong on the track coming at the Dominion Handicap Trot on Show Day where she finished last. She hasn’t been at her best of late, with Hunter saying she has been troubled with what he says is “an…
Nally’s patience sets up epic upset
By Jonny Turner Junior driver Tom Nally pulled off one of the upsets of the century when Indulgence won at the unthinkable price of $140 at Winton on Thursday. Nally sat the rank outsider off a hot speed and she unwound down the outer to like a $2 favourite for her knockout win in race 5. While punters were left reeling by the result, Nally had a smile from ear to ear. “It is amazing to win with a $140 shot, you don’t hear about that happening very often,” the…
Big Fish, Little Fish – Auckland 20 November
Perry snares Classic colt
Masterton bloodstock agent Bruce Perry struck late on day 2 of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale when going to $450,000 to secure a quality colt by Tavistock. Presented by Curraghmore, the classically-bred colt is from the stakes-placed Shirocco mare Mourasana. Bred by Sir Owen Glenn’s Go Bloodstock, the colt is from the family of Gr.1 Sydney Cup (3200m) winner Mourayan and Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) placegetter Mourilyan. “I thought he was a lovely horse, he was very well balanced and had a lot of presence about him,”…
Savabeel colt tops Ready To Run Sale
As the curtain came down on a successful New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale, a colt by Savabeel out of the O’Reilly mare Miss Opulence, a half-sister to multiple Group One winners Sir Slick and Puccini, stole the limelight late in the piece, topping the sale at $700,000. Presented by Sam and Hana Beatson’s Riversley Park, who finished as leading vendor for the fourth year in succession, the athletic bay attracted the interest of multiple parties before eventually going the way of Te Akau’s Jamie Richards. “We thought he…
Ellis returns to Karaka well
Nearly 17 years after Te Akau Principal David Ellis bought five-time Group One winner Darci Brahma at Karaka, he returned to New Zealand Bloodstock’s sales complex to buy what he has deemed to be his best son. Ellis went to $1.1 million to secure Darci Brahma out of Pencarrow Stud’s 2004 Premier Yearling Sale draft, and he only had to go to a fraction of that to purchase lot 219, the colt out of Encosta de Lago mare Granadilla, from Lilywhites Lodge’s Ready To Run Sale draft on Thursday. “I…