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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Ka Ying Rising lands stall four for the Chairman’s Sprint Prize, while Mr Brightside will jump from gate two in the Champions Mile.View the full article -
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It will be an ANZAC day with a difference at Addington. In what is the first collaboration between the One NZ Warriors, Harness Racing New Zealand and Addington Raceway a special ANZAC League and Racing Night will be held. The collaboration was announced in March. A 10 race programme will get underway at 2.55 pm on Friday with the final race at 7.12pm giving league fans plenty of time to head across the road to Apollo Projects Stadium to see the One NZ Warriors take on the Newcastle Knights, with kick-off at 8pm. Earlier in the week a very limited number of tickets for the racing-league package were made available. They were for dinner, drinks and a ticket to the game. They got snapped up in no time, with the game itself already a sell out. Dinner or dinner and drinks packages are still available, with prices starting at $62. Go to addington.co.nz for more details. There’ll be plenty of action happening off the track too including guest appearances by two NRLW One NZ Warriors players. They will do a meet and greet and be available for photos. There will be fun activities for the kids throughout the afternoon, including spot prizes and a chance to win a signed One NZ Warriors jersey. Just scan the QR code displayed on course to enter the draw. Among the league and/or ANZAC themes races on the day will be Race 2, Wah-Hine ANZAC Classic for the Fillies and Mares and Race 7, the Up The Wahs Mobile Pace (5.50pm). Included in the field is the omen bet of the night – Warrior Chief. He’s currently a $4.80 second favourite behind Arthur Shelby. Fittingly the night will round out with Race 10, The Last Post Free For All Mobile Pace (7.12pm). View the full article -
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Rich Hill Stud’s Group One stallion roster has enjoyed another stellar year and the farm’s 2025 service fees will reflect that success while also being mindful of the uncertain economic times. Champion sire Proisir will stand at $70,000 + GST, Satono Aladdin at $45,000 + GST, Ace High will be offered at $15,000 + GST and Shocking at $10,000 + GST. “Breeders who have supported Rich Hill stallions over recent seasons have reaped substantial rewards,” Rich Hill Managing Director John Thompson said. “Our 2025 service fees directly reflect this ongoing success, but we have made some adjustments in line with current market challenges. “This ensures the industry continues to benefit from the exceptional value they offer.” Proisir’s progeny have again excelled across the racetracks of Australasia, with 19 individual stakes performers already this season. His 10 individual Australasian stakes winners include multiple Group winner Waitak, brilliant mare Legarto and three-year-olds Vegas Queen and Sergeant Major. Proisir currently ranks second by earnings on the New Zealand Sires’ Premiership and leads by individual stakes winners (seven), winners (41), and total wins (56). His 2025 yearlings were highly sought after and again provided breeders with outstanding returns. At Karaka, he sired three of the top five priced yearlings, including the spectacular Donna Marie filly who fetched $1,100,000 and his 41 Book 1 yearlings averaged $233,171. “Going forward, we can all be very excited about Proisir’s future results,” Thompson said. “We eagerly anticipate his upcoming two-year-olds, which are the first progeny to race from the higher quality mare books bred over the last three seasons.” Deep Impact’s son Satono Aladdin will return to New Zealand this season and despite not having a current crop of Southern Hemisphere three-year-olds, he has maintained his profile as one of New Zealand’s leading young sires. His Australasian progeny statistics are world class and from limited early opportunities has a 12.2 per cent ratio of stakes winners to runners. His 2020-21 crop of 43 foals has produced six individual Group winners at a remarkable 14 per cent Group winners to foals, including Firestorm, Raf Attack, Lupo Solitario and Tokyo Tycoon. Satono Aladdin also excelled in the sale ring, with his twenty-nine 2025 Book One yearlings averaging $170,690 and selling up to $525,000. At the recent Sydney Easter Yearling Sale, his Gallwitz filly from the Trelawney Stud consignment sold for A$725,000. “Satono Aladdin’s progeny displays incredible versatility and class. With his larger foal crops now emerging, his future impact on Australasian racing and breeding looks set to ascend to new heights over the next few seasons,” Thompson said. Proven Group One producer Shocking has enjoyed another excellent season. The highlight for Shocking fans was his February Group One double at Te Rapa with El Vencedor capturing the Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) and Here To Shock claiming the Waikato Sprint (1400m). Shocking also came close to a unique Group One Derby double when his son Scary ran second in the VRC Derby and Packing Angel was a close third in the Hong Kong Derby. Furthermore, he continues to enhance his legacy as a broodmare sire, most recently through Repo Bay, dam of Proisir’s Group One winner Waitak. “Shocking’s racetrack progeny consistently delivers outstanding results, and he offers breeders access to a proven Group One sire at remarkable value,” Thompson said. Ace High has made a flying start to his stud career, siring Gr.1 1000 Guineas (1600m) winner Molly Bloom from his first crop. The momentum has continued this season with My Lips Are Sealed winning at Group level and the talented performers She’s A Hustler, O’Ziggy, Texas Dolly, Bullets High and Angland all coming through the grades. Ace High’s second crop of three-year-olds are also impressing, with stakes performers Kitty Flash and Dealt With supported by emerging runners such as She’s A Dealer, Croupier, Canny Queen and Katashi. “Ace High continues to attract strong breeder support achieving his largest book yet in 2024,” Thompson said. “His 2025 yearlings averaged $122,000 at Karaka Book One and given his impeccable pedigree as a son of influential sire High Chaparral, Ace High’s progeny are set to thrive as they mature and step up in distance.” View the full article -
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After overcoming an injury scare earlier in the week, fortune has turned in favour of Kiwi flyer El Vencedor (NZ) (Shocking), drawing barrier one for Sunday’s HK$28 million Gr.1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin. The four-time Group One winner was treated for lameness in the left hind leg after arriving in Hong Kong and was restricted to light work until Tuesday morning, where he was passed suitable to complete trackwork at Sha Tin. In the hands of champion hoop Zac Purton, El Vencedor completed his final serious piece of work on Thursday morning, albeit after having a decent look at the vast surroundings at Sha Tin. “All happy, it was good to have Zac on today to get a feel for him,” trainer Stephen Marsh said. “He’s got a massive grandstand to look at here and it took him a little while to get going. Once he got going, he’s still not fully concentrating, but having that underway now, it should bring him on beautifully. “It’s a pretty daunting experience, you’ve got big screens here, bigger than most houses, and the grandstands are nearly over the track. It’s good he’s had a look now and he’ll be all the better for it.” When questioned on preference for barrier draws, Marsh indicated anywhere between one and five would be ideal for his charge and that became a reality as co-owner and co-breeder David Price selected the ace barrier later in the day. “It’s pretty unreal, three country boys coming to the big lights,” Price said. “It’s been fantastic, Hong Kong Jockey Club have been amazing hosts.” The son of Shocking will be up against a number of serious international stars in the QEII Cup, with the likes of Cap Ferratt, Prognosis and Goliath. While Price is unsure of where his form stacks up against those horses, El Vencedor’s versatility is his strength. “He’s a strong horse, he can lead, he can trail and he’s got a high cruising speed. Tactically, that makes him relatively easy to ride,” he said. “It’s hard to line it up (New Zealand form), we were ranked number 10 in the world in the LONGINES ratings, so we just don’t know. We haven’t raced against these horses, but he’s coming here on the top of his game, and we just hope that’s good enough. “Win, lose or draw, it’s going to be fantastic.” View the full article -
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Well-bred stayer Rainbow Delight (NZ) (Savabeel) has found his feet back on home soil and will aim to complete a hattrick at Te Rapa on Saturday when contesting the Marsh Racing – Good Luck ‘EV’ (2400m). A son of champion sire Savabeel and multiple Australian Group One-winning mare Suavito, ainbow Delight is a half-brother to Group Three-winning filly Sethito (NZ) (Super Seth), and was initially prepared by Forsman to place in a two-year-old trial before he was sold to Hong Kong. Unplaced in three starts in the Asian jurisdiction, Rainbow Delight returned to be raced by the Cambridge horseman and in his second run back, he picked up an awaited maiden victory. “I trained him and he only had the one trial before he was sold up to Hong Kong,” Forsman said. “He didn’t really settle in and I don’t think there was a lot of suitable racing up there for a staying type of horse like he is. “We were thankful to have him back and give him his chance here, it’s taken him a fair while to acclimatise and get back into how we do things down here, but he seems to have his confidence up now.” That confidence was on full display at Trentham earlier this month, where Rainbow Delight put an extending six-length margin on his rivals over 2200m. While never questioning his talent, Forsman was still more hopeful than confident that he would produce such an effort. “I was hopeful, but you never know,” Forsman said. “He’s certainly capable of that, I just really wanted to see him put back-to-back performances together. “He’s won a couple of fairly winnable races and he strikes another here, but he’s going up in grade every time, so you don’t quite know where his level is. On ability, he can be winning again.” Later in the day, Gr.2 Auckland Guineas (1400) winner Yaldi (NZ) (Ardrossan) will chase another stakes victory in the Gr.3 Windsor Park Stud Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m), but is coming off an uncharacteristic run at the course a fortnight ago. Forsman is willing to put that effort behind him, where Yaldi raced fiercely midfield behind a slow tempo and was unable to finish in his typical fashion. “He got back on a slow tempo and he just wanted to over-race and get on with it,” Forsman said. “I think we have to put it behind us, he was pretty fresh going into it. “This is a bigger, better field and there will be a lot more tempo on. I think he should be fine, it’s just the wide draw and hoping he doesn’t get too far off them.” Talented juvenile The Espy (NZ) (U S Navy Flag) is looking to finish his brief campaign with a flourish in the Cambridge Raceway 2YO (1200m) after impressing second-up at Tauranga in late March. Off the back of that performance, Forsman considered a tilt at stakes company for the son of U S Navy Flag but opted to bypass the Listed Star Way Stakes (1200m) on a soft surface. “He does want a really good track and I think the track would’ve just not suited the other day, with the bad weather and forecast leading into it,” Forsman said. “Hopefully he gets a decent surface on Saturday and at this stage it looks like he might, we just hope the rain that is forecasted on the day doesn’t eventuate. “This will be it for him, he’ll go out for a break and come back to be ready for the spring.” Across the Tasman on Friday, Forsman will have one representative out of his Flemington stable in Prochester (NZ) (Proisir) taking on the Listed VRC St Leger (2800m). The Proisir three-year-old produced the best run of his career last start when third in the Gr.3 Manawatu Classic (2100m), won by subsequent Gr.3 Championship Stakes (2100m) winner Kiwi Skyhawk (NZ) (Contributer). “The only other option left for him over middle distance was Ellerslie and he just hasn’t fired right-handed for whatever reason, so I thought we’d go here, and the further the better for him,” Forsman said. “He’s fairly one-paced, but it was a good solid run the other day so you’d think the 2800 at Flemington should suit him. It’s meant to rain tomorrow (Friday) and I think he’s fine on any track, but if it does cut up a little bit, he may handle it a little better than some others would. “He’s been great since travelling over, he went in the middle of last week and settled in really well.” To be ridden by Harry Coffey, Prochester is among six Kiwi-breds in the A$200,000 contest, including the Te Akau and Fortuna representative West Indies. View the full article
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