Month: August 2024

So Naive winning the Group 3 Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at Ruakaka on Saturday. Photo: Therese Davis The Bruce Wallace and Grant Cooksley training partnership had plenty to celebrate on Saturday when they produced a superb quinella in the feature event at Ruakaka, the Group 3 Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m), with stable runners So Naive and Toruk Makto. So Naive, a stunning son of The Oaks Stud resident stallion U S Navy Flag, had won twice from four starts during his two-year-old campaign and was fitted for his new season…

Rise At Dawn in the hands of Mick Dee scored a comfortable victory at Caulfield. Photo: Bruno Cannatelli In-form galloper Rise At Dawn is likely to be set for a black-type assignment after notching a comfortable victory at Caulfield on Saturday. The four-year-old son of Almanzor is prepared by Ben, Will and JD Hayes, and has now won six of his 11 starts. Ridden by Michael Dee, Rise At Dawn sat outside Keats, who led throughout and applied the pressure upon straightening to score by three-quarters of a length from…

Australia’s greatest ever sprint, Black Caviar. (Racing Photos) Australia’s greatest sprinter, Black Caviar, has passed away after a short battle with Laminitis. The unbeaten champion of the turf had been suffering complications due to a milk infection in recent weeks, and after giving birth to a Snitzel colt on early Saturday morning, Black Caviar was humanly euthanised at Scone Equine Hospital. Black Caviar’s connections took to X/Twitter to confirm the news and made a statement on their one-in-a-lifetime mare. “It is with deep sadness that the Madden, Hawkes, Wilkie, Taylor…

Illicit Dreams winning at Ruakaka on Saturday. Photo: Therese Davis (Race Images) Ruakaka trainer Kenny Rae has a great record campaigning horses in the South Island and he is hoping that will continue this spring when he heads to Riccarton with Saturday winner Illicit Dreams. The well-travelled four-year-old had been in great form on her home track over winter, placing in all four of her starts, including a last start third behind Group One winner Crocetti and Group Three winner Master Fay. Rae went into Saturday’s event quietly confident, and…

Justaskme winning at New Plymouth on Saturday. Photo: Peter Rubery (Race Images Palmerston North) It may have taken a few more races than expected but there couldn’t have been a more fitting result for local trainer Allan Sharrock as his great mate Justaskme provided his mentor with his 1000th New Zealand win in the training ranks at New Plymouth on Saturday. Sharrock entered the day on 999 victories and was confidently expected to pick up victory in one of the opening races on the card, however, he had to play…

Chris Waller has unearthed another potential Group 1 star. (Photo by Brett Holburt/Racing Photos) The Chris Waller-trained Autumn Glow ($3.10) produced a statement debut victory at Rosehill on Saturday afternoon, careering away with the opening event of the program. The daughter of The Autumn Sun couldn’t have been more impressive, dispatching her rivals by 2.5 lengths, cruising past the well-supported favourite Dawn Service ($2.30) with 200m left to travel. Tyler Schiller manoeuvred the unraced three-year-old into the one-one throughout the 1300m journey, and from there, it was all over as…

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Darwin trainer Chris Nash is bound for the annual Katherine Turf Club meeting at the Jim Jackson Racecourse on Saturday with Son Of Bielski. (Photo: Caroline Camilleri/Darwin Photography Professionals) After missing an Alice Springs Cup start in April with Son Of Bielski, Darwin trainer Chris Nash is eyeing Saturday’s Katherine Cup with the eight-year-old gelding. Nash, who had 14 wins in last season’s Top End and Country premiership and had four wins during the recent Darwin Cup Carnival, has never won an Alice Springs or Katherine Cup. Nor the Darwin…

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Helena Baby will line up at Arawa Park on Sunday. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) John Bell came close to picking up a lucrative prize during the week at the Cambridge Synthetic, and he will now switch his focus over the fences on Sunday with rising jumping star Helena Baby. Spanish Lad represented the local horseman in the Richard Bright Memorial (1500m) on Wednesday after two comfortable victories on the surface in his last two appearances. Among a tidy line-up of seasoned gallopers, the son of Shocking held his own,…