-
Available Subscriptions
BOAY Racing News
34,475 topics in this forum
-
- Journalists
Cunning jumper shines
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 129 views
-
- Journalists
Spring stars to jumpout
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 127 views
-
- Journalists
Donnybrook delivers sentimental win for Allpress
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 130 views
-
- Journalists
Bosch bold in Ruakaka redemption
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 132 views
-
- Journalists
Street Fightin Man too tough at Riccarton
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 131 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 180 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 133 views
-
-
- Journalists
NZ Racing and Breeding News – 04 August 2024
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 149 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 136 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 136 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 139 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 142 views
-
-
- Journalists
Progressive Medatsu has more to come
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 133 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 132 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 170 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 168 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 134 views
-
-
- Journalists
Jay Bee Gee Wins Winter Cup
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 151 views
-
- Journalists
Rise At Dawn dictates all at Flemington
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 142 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 137 views
-
-
- Journalists
Beach Life agreeing with rejuvenated Horrifying
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 139 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 154 views
-
-
- Journalists
Berry The Cash wins Sydenham Hurdles
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 135 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 139 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 145 views
-
Announcements
-
Posts
-
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
By Brigette Solomon Mark Purdon makes a return to race day driving with stable stars Oscar Bonavena and Don’t Stop Dreaming at Cambridge’s Flying Stakes night tonight. The Matamata-based Purdon hasn’t driven Oscar Bonavena since they ran third in the Renwick Farms Dominion Trot at Addington in November behind Just Believe and the last time he drove Don’t Stop Dreaming in this country was the 2023 New Zealand Derby won by Merlin. Oscar Bonavena was a winner of the Group 3 IRT Cambridge Flying Stakes back in 2020 when it was raced over 1609 metres. This year the race is over 2200 metres (7.49pm), and Oscar Bonavena (8) starts from the outside of the barrier and opens as a very short, fixed price favourite ($1.20) in the eight horse field. The country’s leading driver Blair Orange has driven him in his last four starts and the nine-year-old entire heads into the race off the back of a third placing in the Group 1 National Trot at Alexandra Park on New Year’s Eve. While the National Trot winner Muscle Mountain was brilliant in winning the event by five lengths, Oscar Bonavena put in an impressive effort, going some way in redeeming himself after breaking in the score up and losing a considerable amount of ground, to hold on and finish third after facing the breeze three wide over the final 700 metres. “Blair (Orange) has said he was just a little keen behind the mobile before he galloped, and he still went on to run a great race,” says Purdon, “he seems very bright and has taken no ill harm from the tough run and has just been trained quietly since.” Since the beginning of his campaign in October, Oscar Bonavena has raced consistently well and prior to his third on New Year’s Eve had won three successive races, including a victory over Just Believe in the New Zealand Trotting Free For All on Show Day. The entire has also commenced stud duties this season, something which Purdon believes may have been beneficial to him on the track. “He’s still currently being collected from to serve mares and has actually had a busy week,” says Purdon, “he’s just such a professional to work with though, he’s great to work with and knows his job when he’s on the track and I think possibly that serving as a stallion might have made him a little better.” In the feature pace of the evening, Mark and Canterbury-based training partner, son Nathan line up Don’t Stop Dreaming (5) in the TAB Cambridge Pacers Flying Stakes Mobile Pace (8.14pm). He’s currently a $2.10 favourite with Republican Party at $2.40. “There’s only six runners in the race but it’s a nice field and I don’t think it will be easy,” says Purdon, “Kango (3) was very good in his last start and may be hard to run down if he leads, and of course there’s Invercargill and Auckland Cup winner Republican Party who will be tough to beat.” After finishing second in the New Zealand Cup behind Swayzee, Don’t Stop Dreaming was seventh in his most recent race, the Auckland Cup on New Year’s Eve. He was buried five back on the fence, unable to obtain clear running until entering the home straight before running on well. “He’s not an overly big horse and I’ve been kind to him since his Auckland Cup run, he’s been working together with Oscar and is bright and well,” says Mark Purdon, “it’s hard to say where he’ll end up in running but I’ll roll forward early and have a look at what happens with the runners inside us and go from there but he’ll need to be good tonight to be a chance.” Racing action gets underway tonight at 5.44pm and with the meeting also including the Waikato Summer Trotting and Pacing Cups. View the full article -
Just in case anyone thought NZTR had a monopoly on being a bit dopey. The Auck trots meeting they refer to last year was a shitty little 8 race card with poor fields and ordinary stakes. This time it was Auckland Cup night with 10 races and heaps more stakes. So of course the bloody turnovers were up. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
In racing circles, trainer Jose D'Angelo might not yet be a “household name,” but that's not going to last much longer. In this country for about five years, the native of Venezuela is coming off a stellar 2024 in which he won 140 races, including his first Grade I with Howard Wolowitz (Munnings) in the Aristocrat Franklin-Simpson Stakes. And it looks like 2025 might be even better. He has a stable full of potential stars that includes 'TDN Rising Star' Guns Loaded (Gun Runner), the winner of last Saturday's Mucho Macho Man Stakes at Gulfstream Park which kicked off the Florida series at the track. How has D'Angelo come so far and so fast and what does he expect from Guns Loaded once the competition becomes stiffer? Those were among the questions we asked when he appeared on this week's TDN Writers' Room podcast presented by Keeneland. He was the Gainesway Guest of the Week. “I am literally living the dream here,” D'Angelo said. “I came from Venezuela with so many goals and so many dreams. Like most horsemen, my main goal is to win the [Kentucky] Derby. But in order to do that you have to go step by step, win races and let people know you know how to win big races. Very few people will win the Derby, but you have to make your name, build up your reputation and make sure people trust you. I feel like we are doing that.” His assistant is his father, Francisco D'Angelo, who was also a leading trainer in Venezuela. Jose D'Angelo says they make a great team. “I learned everything from my father,” he said. “He was champion in Venezuela. He won lot of Grade 1's over there and was leading trainer there many times. I feel like the team that we have is strong team because he let me go out on my own with my horses. He stays here in Florida, so that I can go to Saratoga, to Keeneland. I know my horses back home in Florida are getting great care with him.” As far as Guns Loaded goes, he didn't exactly beat a strong field in the Mucho Macho Man, but the colt is exceptionally well bred and should do better as the races get longer. How excited does he have D'Angelo? “He is a special horse,” D'Angelo said. “When I decided which 2-year-olds to take to Saratoga I brought just him and one other horse. So that tells you how different he was compared to my other 2-year-olds. When I worked him for the first time, I knew he had talent, but not the speed that he showed. So that's why I ran him at seven furlongs the first time out because he's by Gun Runner out of a Bernardini mare. So everything says that he should go long. When we worked him, he never showed this speed that he has. It turns out he's very fast.” He continued: “So now talking about the Mucho Macho Man, I know the fractions were not fast and I know the horse won by only a neck, but after the race finished, [jockey] Luis [Saez] came to me and he said, 'Hey Jose, those other horses were never going to pass us. I had so much horses.'” In our weekly breeding spotlight section the hosts looked at the WinStar stallion and Randy Moss favorite Two Phil's. Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by 1/ST Racing, the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders' Association, West Point Thoroughbreds, and XBTV.com, the team of Zoe Cadman, Bill Finley and Randy Moss talked about the sizzling win by the Bob Baffert-trained Barnes (Into Mischief) in the GII San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita, as well as the impressive performance earlier on the same card by his stablemate Rodriguez (Authentic), who earned 'TDN Rising Star' badge. Also, the program covered the first 2025 edition of the TDN Derby Top 12, which is authored by T.D. Thornton. Last but not least, the sad story was related of War Envoy (War Front), a winner at Royal Ascot, being in poor physical condition and having to be rescued by the authorities from a Franklin County, Kentucky farm led to the panelists imploring the industry for what seemed like the 500th time that it must do better by its horses. To watch the Writers' Room, click here. To view the show as a podcast, click here. The post Jose D’Angelo Joins TDN Writers’ Room Podcast appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Grade 1 winner Seeking the Soul was represented by his first winner Jan. 8 when Queen of Soul won the third race at Gulfstream Park, a one-mile maiden race for $12,500 claimers.View the full article -
I think I may have said this before, but just too stupid for words really. I hope they didn't spend too much time and money on it.
-
-
Topics
-
