Day: 26 June 2024

An affinity with Waikato Stud stallion Super Seth prompted Phoenix Broodmare Farm’s Damian Gleeson and Deb Gifford to make a spur-of-the-moment purchase of stakes-winning mare Zecora on Gavelhouse.com this week. The New South Wales-based couple paid $150,000 for the six-year-old mare, who won the Gr.3 J Swap Sprint (1400m) earlier this season. Super Seth had been on Gleeson and Gifford’s radar for some time, and not only because of his racetrack and stallion credentials. The Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) winner has made an immediate impact with his first two-year-olds this…

An affinity with Waikato Stud stallion Super Seth prompted Phoenix Broodmare Farm’s Damian Gleeson and Deb Gifford to make a spur-of-the-moment purchase of stakes-winning mare Zecora on Gavelhouse.com this week. The New South Wales-based couple paid $150,000 for the six-year-old mare, who won the Gr.3 J Swap Sprint (1400m) earlier this season. Super Seth had been on Gleeson and Gifford’s radar for some time, and not only because of his racetrack and stallion credentials. The Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) winner has made an immediate impact with his first two-year-olds this…

An affinity with Waikato Stud stallion Super Seth prompted Phoenix Broodmare Farm’s Damian Gleeson and Deb Gifford to make a spur-of-the-moment purchase of stakes-winning mare Zecora on Gavelhouse.com this week. The New South Wales-based couple paid $150,000 for the six-year-old mare, who won the Gr.3 J Swap Sprint (1400m) earlier this season. Super Seth had been on Gleeson and Gifford’s radar for some time, and not only because of his racetrack and stallion credentials. The Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) winner has made an immediate impact with his first two-year-olds this…

Patience with My Chablis has paid dividends for Stephen Marsh as the filly secured the second win of her brief career at the Cambridge Synthetic on Wednesday. A rising four-year-old, My Chablis made her debut in mid-January but was put aside until the polytrack meeting on June 12, where she collected her maiden success at start two over 970m. Stepping into Rating 65 grade in the Entain/NZB Insurance Pearl Series (1300m), the daughter of Burgundy was rated a $5.50 chance behind the well-performed Tears Of Victory and Pax Mundi. In…

It was a case of like father, like son at Cambridge on Wednesday when Davey Ellis recorded his first training win courtesy of Spectrier in the in the Cambridge Equine Hospital 1550. Ellis, 40, is the son of Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis, who as well as founding and operating the thoroughbred behemoth, also trained at the turn of the century, recording three victories in the 2000/01 season. Ellis junior has been surrounded by horses his entire life and said his passion for the animal began on the rolling…

Scotty Macnab looks forward to competing in The New Zealand Hunts’ Association Duke Of Gloucester Cup (2100m) every season, and he will be aiming for a third crown in the iconic amateurs event on Saturday at Hastings. Macnab has been New Zealand’s most successful amateur rider for the better part of a decade, winning the Flair Amateur Rider Series five times, including last year’s edition staged through the winter and early spring. A farmer from Wanganui, Macnab followed in the footsteps of his father Dave in competing in the series,…

Talented mare Betty Spaghetti is one of a number of well-performed younger horses recently welcomed back into Shane Kennedy and Anna Furlong’s Riccarton operation. The daughter of Stratum Star has put together a tidy record of four wins and five minor placings, including a credit at black-type level, from 14 starts and has returned to the stable to build toward her spring preparation. Fellow stakes performers Quintabelle, Miss Layla and promising two-year-old Lil Zena are also among those to have come back into the system following time in the paddock.…

Te Akau Racing have had another stellar season and some of their stars that contributed to their success have returned to their Matamata barn to try and continue their dominance next term. The Waikato Stud-bred and raced Skew Wiff was the stable’s first Group One winner for the season, and consequently co-trainer Sam Bergerson’s first elite-level training triumph, following her victory in the Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings. She subsequently crossed the Tasman where she won the Gr.3 Hong Kong Jockey Club Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Melbourne Cup…

New Zealand syndicator Go Racing is enjoying a pleasing season and hit a major milestone earlier this month. Quality Time’s win at Ruakaka on June 8 took their stakes earnings past the $6 million mark for Go Racing’s owners this term, capping a remarkable season. “It has been a wonderful season for our owners,” Go Racing Director Albert Bosma said. “We have won Group One races in New Zealand with Velocious, in Australia with Atishu and had stakes performers in Ireland, France and England. “Just last week Je Zous ran…