By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk The North Island team may be light on experience ahead of the McMillan Equine Feeds New Zealand Junior Driver Championship at Addington Raceway this week, but series veteran Alicia Harrison will be looking to lead from the front. The Cambridge horsewoman has competed in the previous three editions and won the series in her first attempt in 2018. “It is always a good trip and a good time, and a good opportunity to showcase my talents,” Harrison said. “The first year I was stoked…
Month: July 2021
Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | July 14, 2021
Horse racing around the country sees six meetings being held around the country on this Wednesday afternoon. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you a couple of bets and quaddie numbers for the eight-race card being conducted at Canterbury, Doomben and Sandown Hillside Wednesday Racing Tips – July 14, 2021 Canterbury Racing Tips Doomben Racing Tips Sandown Hillside Racing Tips Horse Racing meetings are scheduled to be run at Belmont, Canterbury, Darwin, Doomben, Murray Bridge and Sandown Hillside. The first at Murray Bridge kicks off the day at…
Golden Sixty named Horse of the Year at Hong Kong’s Champion Awards
Golden Sixty is crowned Horse of the Year. Golden Sixty’s outstanding exploits during the 2020/21 season earned the multiple Group 1 victor the Hong Kong Horse of the Year award at a special presentation function held at Happy Valley Clubhouse tonight, Tuesday, 13 July. The Francis Lui-trained five-year-old was also named Champion Miler and Champion Middle-Distance Horse. In addition, the son of Medaglia d’Oro also secured the bulk of the public vote to claim the Most Popular Horse title for the second consecutive year. The 2019/20 season’s Champion Four-Year-Old showed…
Addington Weekly : July 14
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GRV COVID-19 alert
GRV advises participants that the McDonald’s restaurant in the Ballan region (near Ballarat) has been declared a COVID-19 Tier 1 site. Anyone who visited this venue on Thursday 8 July 2021 between 5:00pm – 7:00pm – is urged to immediately isolate, get a COVID-19 test, quarantine for 14 days and follow other Government advice. Read more: https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/exposure-sites Trainers passing through the region on the way to and from Horsham today should also be made aware of this situation. Stay Safe – Stay Aware – Stay Racing
Exciting filly chasing hat-trick of wins at Randwick
Exciting three-year-old Expat (NZ) (Makfi) is chasing three wins in-a-row in the Tax Today Handicap (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday. The daughter of Makfi hasn’t finished worse than fourth this campaign, when she was first-up in the Listed Denise’s Joy Stakes. Her last two wins have both come on Heavy rated tracks, which Randwick is expected to be rated come Saturday morning. Expat’s trainer Mark Newnham said the filly is handling her racing well, and the return of apprentice Tom Sherry adds to her chances. “Her condition’s maintained, her race weight is the same. She’s been…
Flying Sardine retired
Sixteen-win mare Flying Sardine (NZ) (Flying Spur) has been retired. Initially trained by Wanganui horseman Kevin Myers, Flying Sardine came into trainer Kelvin Tyler’s care as an unraced two-year-old and went on to win more than $370,000. “She’s been an absolute darling,” Tyler told stuff.co.nz. “Kevin offered her to me pretty much as a giveaway. He thought she might win a couple of races down here, but she’s proved way better than that.” After 90 starts, including a stint in Victoria last season, Tyler, along with his daughter and training…
Complacent’s roll of winners continue
Mapperley Stud stallion Complacent has continued his impressive run of late with Barracuda (NZ) running out a dominant 4-½ length winner at Te Rapa last Saturday. “The way he won, he could be a very exciting horse. Putting the blinkers on for the first time switched him on,” trainer Darrell Hollinshead said. “He’s really started to fill out and his best is all ahead of him. We’ll go to the 1800m race at Taranaki in two weeks, then we will tip him out and target some nice staying races in…
Browne’s big five head to Ruakaka
David and Emma-Lee Browne’s travelling zoo is heading north for the weekend. The Cambridge trainers will take a team of five to Ruakaka on Saturday, among them Elephant (NZ) (Shocking) and Rhinoceros (NZ) (Vadamos). Impressive trial winner Rhinoceros will debut in the Whangarei ITM 2YO (1200m), while Elephant will gallop between races with promising stablemate Bifrost (NZ) (Turn Me Loose). The other travelers are Border Leicester (NZ) (Redwood) in the ITM/Gib Whangarei Gold Cup (2100m) and exciting staying prospect Gone West (NZ) (Reliable Man) in the Bay Of Islands ITM…
Nickalls chipper ahead of Wellington Steeplechase
Rangiotu trainer Stephen Nickalls is looking forward to Trentham on Saturday where he will have a two-pronged attack in the Grant Plumbing Wellington Steeplechase (5500m). The jumps racing enthusiast has placed in the feature twice before with The Oysterman (NZ) (Yamanin Vital) and he is hoping either Zartan (NZ) (Zed) or Coconut (NZ) (Nom Du Jeu) can get the job done this weekend. “It is probably the biggest major (steeplechase) closer to home, so we always try and go there,” Nickalls said. “We ran close with The Oysterman a few…