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Month: May 2021
Peak on the move – but to where?
by Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk After serving more than 400 mares, Peak is on the lookout for a new owner, and a new home. The 14-year-old chestnut has been at stud at Alabar Farm in Pukekohe for the past six seasons. Cheval Rapide Syndicate manager Greg Ayers says: “We would like to gift Peak to somebody that will provide a new home and look after him and they will still be able to breed from him.” Peak was a trotting trail-blazer when champion trainer Tim Butt brought him…
Mowbray’s pair on song for Forbury tonight
By Jonny Turner If racing was simple Mighty Reactor would turn up and win at Forbury Park tonight. Going by the sectional times the Brad Mowbray trained pacer has produced in the past, he looks to have an edge over his rivals in race 4. Though racing is never simple and neither is the Canterbury four-year-old, who has shown a tendency to race intractably in many of his starts. So when he lines up from barrier 3 it will be vitally important Mighty Reactor keeps his mind on the job…
IRT Harness Jewels Update : May 27
Cambridge Raceway is now in the final stages of preparing for its biggest event of the year, the IRT Harness Jewels on Sunday June 6. “It’s happening, “ says Cambridge Raceway Chief Executive Dave Branch. Work on the G.H. Mumm and the Speights Summit Ultra Sports Bar marquees will start on Sunday, and be completed by the middle of next week. The Mumm marquee, at $320 per person, was sold out weeks ago, and there are just a few tickets left for the Sports Bar. Ticket sales generally are tracking…
Juvenile continues to spark fresh-new partnership
A trainer-owner combination in its infancy will look to continue a roaring start when Lady Maroal (NZ) (Power) contests the Listed Mainland Auckland Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday. Lady Maroal is the first horse 61-year-old Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley has prepared for 94-year-old owner Ron Saunders and already the two-year-old has won the Listed Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Ellerslie. She had earlier won at just her second start and then finished fifth in the Gr.1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni. “Ron’s 94 and he’s an amazing…
The Box Seat – 26 May
Michael Guerin and Greg O’Connor bring us this week’s “The Box Seat”
Breeders, trainers cashing in on Pink Diamond ‘pink rug’ promo
Sixty four Victorian-bred greyhounds wearing the pink number eight rug won a race in this state over the past two weeks, equating to an extra $16,000 back to Victorian participants. The first fortnight of the pink rug campaign saw a number of highlights including a running double for the Amstel Syndicate (managed by Peter Craig) at Cranbourne on 15 May, and a hat-trick of pink rug winners at Geelong last Friday night courtesy of Hill Top Jack, Spearhead Joe and Riverdale Goldie. The month-long pink rug promotion was introduced to…
Selections | Forbury Park 27 May
Selections for today’s meeting at Forbury Park Head to www.tab.co.nz to place your bet! Race TROTTECHForm Analyst Race 15.38pm 2 Random Spur3 She’s So Right7 Kiwi Heir4 My Hope Race 26.04pm 2 Rosies Terror4 Southern Starr7 Maldito1 Forty Wives Race 36.29pm 1 Arlo Maguire6 Cute Art2 Louthario8 Morrissey Race 46.54pm 3 Mighty Reactor10 Auchtercairn7 Zircon Lass1 Dalness Arizona Race 57.19pm 6 La Reina Del Sur3 Global Flight1 Ruby Seddon8 Svelt Race 67.44pm 3 Gipsy4 Who’s Smoking7 Coopers Hawk1 Play By Ear Race 78.09pm 7 Santanna Mach2 Mucho Macho Man4 Calypso Rock6 Rake…
Pride in our queens and hounds
Midsumma Pride March took on a scaled back look in 2021, but that did not stop the team at Greyhound Racing Victoria and the Greyhound Adoption Program from marching together to show pride in our industry and our wonderful greyhounds. The annual Pride March, which pre COVID attracted audiences of more than 50,000 people, was scaled back to a limit of 8,000 in 2021. The March celebrates the LGTBI community, organisations supporting the LGBTIQA+ community and businesses showing pride. GRV Chair Peita Duncan was overwhelmed at the popularity of the…
Kurabui keeps record intact at Sandown
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr-trained Kurabui (NZ) (Proisir) has maintained her unbeaten record with a comfortable victory at Sandown. The four-year-old daughter of Proisir took out the Ladbrokes Blended Multi Handicap (1600m) on Wednesday to stretch her winning sequence to four after commencing her racing career late last year. Under a copybook ride by Jamie Kah, Kurabui was sent off the $1.60 favourite and defeated La Chevalee (Written Tycoon) ($4) by 1-¼ lengths. “If you could ask for a certain ride on that horse, that was it,” Kent…