Year: 2022

Five-year-old gelding Made By Khan (NZ) (Mongolian Khan) left his rivals with few excuses when proving the best stayer in the Midway Handicap (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday. Prepared by Gosford trainer Adam Duggan, Made By Khan travelled three-wide throughout and still had the audacity to fend off his opposition to score by over a length under apprentice Dylan Gibbons. The son of Mongolian Khan has now won five races from 17 starts with a further four placings and looks to have the potential to bank good prizemoney for connections…

The addition of blinkers and step up to 2000m played in favour of the well fancied Ladies Man (NZ) (Zed) as he distanced his rivals in the run home to take out the Landmark Homes City of New Plymouth Cup (2000m). The Allan Sharrock-trained five-year-old has the Gr.3 New Zealand Campus For Innovation & Sport Wellington Cup (3200m) as a major summer mission and he looked every bit a leading candidate as he lapped up the middle distance journey on Saturday. Settled against the rail in midfield by rider Craig…

Lightly-raced speedster Inundation (Headwater) made a blistering return to the racetrack, establishing a new 1000-metre track record at The Valley on Saturday. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained four-year-old clocked 56.84 seconds in winning the BM78 bettering the 56.92 seconds recorded by Written Beauty more than two years ago and the new mark now ensures there will be no flying under the radar for the promising son of Headwater. Jockey Jamie Kah didn’t hesitate to describe the four-year-old as being “special” after his blitz while a delighted co-trainer Michael…

Trainer Ben Foote was left chuckling to himself after receiving a text post-race from the co-owners of impressive debutant Loosespender (NZ) (Turn Me Loose), who overcame a torrid run in-transit to take out the opening event at Hawera on Saturday. The strapping grey son of Turn Me Loose made light of sitting three and four wide during the running for rider Kozzi Asano, as he refused to yield in the home straight to claim victory by a head from fellow Cambridge visitor Styx. Foote had not known what to think…

After bemusing trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood with a debut performance that is best forgotten, three-year-old Mark Twain (NZ) (Shocking) showed what he is capable of with a convincing victory over 1600m in maiden company at Hawera on Saturday. The son of resident Rich Hill Stud sire Shocking had been expected to perform creditably when making his first racetrack appearance at Pukekohe last month but spent the majority of the race at the rear of field, eventually beating just three runners home. It was a shock for James as…