Day: 12 September 2024

Grey filly Diablo Blanco (NZ) (Super Seth) will be out to gain some valuable black-type on Saturday when she heads to Riccarton Park to contest the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m). The daughter of Super Seth, who carries the Milan Park silks of co-breeder and part-owner Tony Rider, won two of her five starts as a juvenile, including first-up this preparation over 1200m at Oamaru in July. She was also fourth in the Gr.2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m), with that form being franked at Hastings last weekend…

Mark Oulaghan’s star jumpers West Coast(NZ) (Mettre En Jeu) and Berry The Cash (NZ) (Jakkalberry) were unstoppable in last month’s Grand National contests, and on Sunday, they are heavily-favoured to add the Great Northern equivalents to their formidable records. West Coast has largely been the benchmark for steeplechasers in New Zealand for the past two seasons, winning a multitude of prestige crowns, including three-straight editions of the Grand National Steeplechase (5600m), the first in history to do so. Contesting the Ben and Ryan Foote Racing Great Northern Steeplechase (6500m) for…

A brilliant spring return by Joliestar has her sitting high in Everest markets. Exciting mare Joliestar made a clear Everest statement with her thumping first-up win in the Show County Quality, now her challenge is to back it up. The four-year-old has rocketed into $5 equal favouritism for the $20 million showpiece and could firm further if she repeats her fresh effort in the Group 2 Sheraco Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday. Trainer Chris Waller is the first to admit Joliestar must produce a similar standard again to bed down her Everest credentials. “At that level, it is…

Over the next two Saturdays, Dom Sutton will be in a better position to ascertain whether his exciting three-year-old geldings Detroit City and Feroce (NZ) ( Super Seth) can continue towards their potential spring goal of the Caulfield Guineas. The Ballarat-based trainer’s undefeated Detroit City will return to the same track and distance which provided him with his last-start victory when he contests the Exford Plate at Flemington on Saturday, while a week later Feroce will contest the Caulfield Guineas Prelude. Sutton said races such as the Exford Plate are…

The Victress has got the nod as Te Akau’s leading black-type chance at Riccarton on Saturday, but it might be an opposing stablemate who will lead the chase for higher honours later in the season. The Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson-trained daughter of Zousain will run in the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) with About Last Night (NZ) Capitalist)  and Dream Of The Moon to also represent the stable. Opie Bosson will be aboard The Victress, the winner of two of her four starts and she impressed…