Month: June 2024

The impressive recent strike-rate of Opie Bosson continued at Matamata on Wednesday, with the top hoop steering home three winners for Te Akau trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson. Bosson has shared his riding engagements between New Zealand and Australia this season, most notably to partner the recently sold star Imperatriz (I Am Invincible), but has still managed to guide home 84 winners on Kiwi soil from just 320 rides. The first of his winning treble at Matamata was aboard Bella Voce, a daughter of Fastnet Rock, who had collected…

The 58 Lot catalogue for the latest fortnightly auction on gavelhouse.com features an outstanding selection of 22 horses from the globally renowned Cambridge Stud. The famous nursery is giving buyers access to 11 weanlings, two yearlings and nine broodmares, representing the high-class bloodlines that Cambridge Stud is known for. “We’ve used gavelhouse.com quite a few times to sell mares in the past, and we’ve noticed that the online market is gaining more and more traction,” Cambridge Stud’s sales and nominations manager Scott Calder said. “Buyers are very comfortable bidding on…

Waverley trainer Bill Thurlow is hoping to collect a couple of breakthrough successes with four runners heading to New Plymouth on Thursday. The meeting is solely for apprentice jockeys, and Thurlow has engaged the country’s top two in Niranjan Parmar and Lily Sutherland to ride his quartet, both of which he has had success with in the past. “Lily has ridden for us for a while and had a little bit to do with these horses,” he said. “Niranjan Parmar is a very capable apprentice, he’s a strong, aggressive rider…

Andy Win (NZ) (Almanzor) completed a memorable Prima Park graduate double this week in the Matamata Glass & Joinery 2000 on Wednesday, and farm principal Kelly Van Dyk couldn’t be any happier with the result. Andy Win was a breeze-up partner to last Saturday’s Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) winner Warmonger (NZ) (War Decree) at the 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale, where the latter was sold to Champagne Racing’s Shane Kennedy for $165,000, while Andy Win failed to reach his $80,000 reserve. Warmonger was subsequently on sold to…

Group One winner Belclare’s (NZ) retirement from racing has been short-lived, with the daughter of Per Incanto set to join expat Kiwi trainer Bjorn Baker’s Sydney barn. The six-year-old mare had a stellar racing career in New Zealand, winning 11 races for Awapuni trainer Lisa Latta, including the last two editions of the Gr.1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m). She was subsequently offered at Magic Millions’ National Broodmare Sale last month where she failed to meet her A$700,000 reserve. While initially disappointed with the outcome, breeder and co-owner David…

Well-related mare Dresse’ Par Joli (NZ) (Tavistock) will have her final opportunity to break her maiden on Thursday before she heads off on a winter break. The Tavistock four-year-old has finished close up in all three of her runs this preparation and the step up to a middle distance in The Underbelly Tito Transport Maiden (2000m) at New Plymouth will aid her cause. Trained on the course by Allan Sharrock, Dresse’ Par Joli is a daughter of the Listed Matamata Cup (1600m) winner Cote D’Or (NZ) (Makfi) from the Pencarrow…