Month: November 2020

Ocean Park three-year-old Ocean Beyond won Saturday’s Listed McMahon’s Dairy McKenzie Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday, upholding his perfect two from two record for Warrnambool trainer Daniel Bowman. Ridden perfectly by Harry Coffey, Ocean Beyond sat outside the leader Deep Speed and poured the pressure on at the top of the straight to eventually get the better of that rival by half a length. The in-form trainer has sent out eight winners in the month of November from 22 starters, with Ocean Beyond comfortably breaking his maiden at…

It took every metre of the Ellerslie home straight for consistent galloper Gino Severini to finally gain the upper hand over his rivals as he captured his first stakes victory in the Gr.3 Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m). The Bruce Wallace and Grant Cooksley-trained seven-year-old had finished in the minor placings in each of his three starts in this campaign and that looked likely again on Saturday as he spotted pacemaker The Mitigator a two-length margin with just 150m to run in the Group Three contest. Rider Michael McNab asked the…

The majority of Will Price’s riding career has been under strict COVID-19 restrictions, so the apprentice was understandably taken aback by a raucous noise as he took four-year-old mare Ocean’s Thirteen to the gates at The Valley on Saturday. The noise – which was actually simple human urgings of encouragement – came from a handful of Ocean Thirteen’s owners, and while such vocal support was once a day-to-day part of horse racing, it has hardly been the norm for much of Price’s career. “I’d only ridden in front of crowds…

Evergreen galloper Hunta Pence was rewarded for his perseverance when he took out the Listed Steelform Roofing Group Wanganui Cup (2040m) after finishing runner-up in the race in the past two years. The Patrick Campbell-trained eight-year-old had been narrowly beaten by Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) winner Sentimental Miss in 2019 and had to bow to subsequent Gr.1 Auckland Cup (3200m) winner Glory Days in 2018 in his first two attempts at the race before making it third-time lucky in the hands of Darryl Bradley on Saturday. Bradley showed the…

Promising three-year-old Tellall enhanced his credentials for some of the summer age group features when he registered his first victory at stakes level when taking out the Listed Trevor Eagle Memorial 3YO (1500m) at Ellerslie. Shooting for his third win in a row, the Tony Pike-trained gelding made light work of his 58.5kgs topweight as he produced a professional performance to down two of his well-supported female rivals in Helsinki and Fleetwood Maca. Rider Michael McNab settled the Spill The Beans gelding on the tail of pacemaker Sweet Hunter before…

Jamie Richards and Te Akau Racing continued their dominance of spring two-year-old racing when they notched their sixth individual juvenile winner at Ellerslie on Saturday, while also adding the quinella for good measure. Impressive triallist Sneaky Shark (Capitalist) was sent out a warm $2.20 Fixed Odds favourite for the 1100m scamper but had to settle for the runner-up cheque after being outgunned in the closing stages by stablemate Millefiori (NZ) (Iffraaj). The pair had dominated proceedings as they set up a steady pace before kicking away from their rivals early…