Day: 8 December 2024

Promising stayer Son Of Sun (NZ) (Tavistock) continued his love affair with the Ellerslie track after recording his fourth win from just six starts there when taking out the opening event on the card on Saturday, the Dunstan Horsefeeds Stayers Championship Qualifier (2100m). The Bruce Wallace and Grant Cooksley-prepared five-year-old was expected to provide a forward showing by punters who installed him as the $4 Fixed Odds favourite in the nine-horse field. Rider Ashvin Goindasamy wasn’t afraid to put the son of Tavistock in the race as he sat outside…

A pair of well-related gallopers delivered impressive fresh-up victories for Roger James and Robert Wellwood across the weekend. Irish Legacy (I Am Invincible), a daughter of multiple Australian Group One-winning mare Shillelagh, made her four-year-old debut at Ellerslie on Saturday, after four appearances last term included a third placing in the Gr.3 Mufhasa Stakes (1200m). Backed into odds-on favouritism in the TAB 1200, Irish Legacy was patiently handled by Ryan Elliot early, easing into a midfield position on the back of her younger stablemate Osteria. A wall of horses were…

This week on Weigh In the team are joined by Allan Sharrock fresh off Ladies Man TAB Mufhasa Classic win. We review Babylon Berlin’s Concorde win and ask what’s next for Bonecrusher Stakes winner Sethito. We celebrate Jaylah Kennedy’s Ballarat Cup win & catch up with Emily ahead of a massive night in Hong Kong. Weigh In, December 8

Lynda German has been a familiar figure in harness racing industry for much of the past two decades, but she went back to her thoroughbred roots at Ellerslie on Saturday, securing her first winner as a trainer with Steely Man (NZ) (Embellish). In his first racing preparation, Steely Man has been a model of consistency running into the placings in each of his first three starts, including a close-up third to Risque Ruler at Ellerslie on Melbourne Cup Day. Matt Cartwright retained the ride on the $3 favourite and settled…

Te Akau Racing and Fortuna Racing have a remarkable association with two-year-old fillies and they unveiled another exciting prospect at Trentham on Saturday in the form of Marokopa Falls (Hellbent). The daughter of Hellbent was not fully tested in her sole trial appearance at Taupo on November 26, and in a compact four-horse juvenile field on debut, she closed a $3.50 second-favourite behind race-winner Too Sweet ($1.80). Each of the quartet jumped positively and with plenty of early speed, Too Sweet found the rail and the lead as they descended…