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By Chief Stipe · Posted
It's still a Pre-season game against Thames Valley for the Ranfurly Shield. Their first NPC game for 2025 is not until 2 August. Last year for the NPC they averaged 4,000 a game. I doubt it will make much difference to the numbers going to the races. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Joshua Brown (NZ) (Dalghar) likes to get his own way and tyro trainer Lance Gussey is happy to go with the flow with his black-type contender. The mercurial son of Dalghar has come a long way in a short time and at New Plymouth on Saturday will face his sternest test yet in the Listed Sinclair Electrical & Refrigeration Opunake Cup (1400m). Despite his quirky temperament, Joshua Brown has an abundance of ability and has fashioned the tidy record of three wins and six placings from 12 appearances. “He’s very hard to train, we couldn’t do exhibition gallops with him because he just won’t do it so he pretty much trains himself,” Gussey said. “We’ve tried a number of times to gallop with other horses, and they’ve taken off and he’s stayed behind and watched them go. “He’s really lazy and is pretty smart. He just does enough, and we haven’t seen his full potential yet.” Joshua Brown will be making his second sojourn to the Central Districts and lessons learned from a first unsuccessful trip have forced a change to the travel plan. “When we went to Trentham, we thought we’d have a bit of a holiday, but he didn’t eat and wasn’t himself,” Gussey said. “This time, we’re going to go down on Saturday and come back the same day.” Joshua Brown has been in good form this preparation and was a winner at Te Rapa two runs back, before a return to the Hamilton course was rewarded with a runner-up finish in the Te Awamutu Cup (1600m). He has been ridden in all but one of his starts by Lynsey Satherley, who will continue her association with the five-year-old at New Plymouth. “I’m extremely happy with him and I can’t complain, he’s doing everything right and we couldn’t have asked for anymore. He hasn’t felt those last two races at all,” Gussey said. “We’ve been completely surprised by everything we’ve got from him, we didn’t know he was going to be this good and we’re having a great ride with him.” Co-bred by Gussey’s late father Ron who trained for more than 30 years, Joshua Brown’s future post-Saturday has yet to be confirmed. “I’m new to the industry and ask for a lot of advice. Lynsey picked this race out for him, and we’ll just wait and see what happens,” he said. Out of Midnight Mistress, Joshua Brown’s half-sister She’ll Be Right, by Eminent, has been a winer for Gussey who also has a yearling filly out of the late Savabeel mare by Satono Aladdin. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Bevan and Robyn Wilson head into Sunday’s Crombie & Price LTD Oamaru Cup (1600m) with three last-start winners, but things haven’t been smooth-sailing for the Ashburton couple. Lord Darci (NZ) (Darci Brahma) and Victorian Charm (NZ) (Charm Spirit) have had interrupted preparations, with the former having last raced at Wingatui at the start of last month, and their trainers have been trying to play catch-up with the pair. “Not everything has gone according to plan, but we are excited to have three capable horses being there anyway,” Bevan Wilson said. “Lord Darci got injured, we think, coming home on the float from his win at Dunedin. He has missed a bit of work and received a bit of treatment from the vet. “He is all good again now, but he did miss a couple of races in that time that would have been beneficial for him. We are back now so we have just got to hope he comes up again. “Victorian Charm missed a race at Ashburton, which was probably crucial this preparation too. He is getting thrown in the deep end a little bit at Oamaru. “It has just made it a little bit difficult having them ready for the stern test ahead.” Stablemate Royal Valour (NZ) (Belardo) heads into the race in good fettle and full of confidence following his victory at Ashburton a fortnight ago. “He has had his issues over time, but he seems to be coming to it,” Wilson said. “He has only had the one run back from his spell as well. It was reasonably tough going at Ashburton and hopefully he backs up from that, and we think he will.” Wilson has been rapt with each of their consistent form lines, and he is hoping to give them a crack at stakes level in next month’s Gr.3 Winning Edge Presentations 128th Winter Cup (1600m) at Riccarton. “They have done well since virtually Christmas time,” he said. “They like the sting out of the ground, but they go on most types of going. “We are giving them a preparation that might get them to the Winter Cup if we can. Royal Valour and Victorian Charm probably need to earn some points to get in that race and we are trying to give them a chance to do that.” Stablemate Victor Rouge is also in line to head to Riccarton for the Grand National Festival of Racing and will have a final lead-in run in Sunday’s Glenmoa Farms LTD River Plate Trophy (1200m). “Things haven’t gone his way in his last couple (of races),” Wilson said. “He has drawn one again, which doesn’t really suit him. We are hoping to get him back further and try and get him to settle. The 1200m will help with that too. “He will also head towards the Grand National meeting where we had a bit of luck last year.” View the full article -
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Robbie Patterson won’t be short of representatives at his home meeting on Saturday, with 13 runners including a trio of talented performers in the Listed Sinclair Electrical and Refrigeration Opunake Cup (1400m). The New Plymouth horseman has accepted with Belles Beau, Our Jumala and Sinbin, with the former opening a $3.90 favourite in the TAB market. A son of Iffraaj, Belles Beau had to play bridesmaid to Sinbin when resuming at the local course in May, but then went on to stamp his authority in open company at Wanganui, defeating subsequent winners in Bradman and Tavis Court. Punters expected more of the same from Belles Beau at Otaki last Tuesday, and while he may have disappointed on face value when third behind Belardo Boy, Patterson was satisfied with the effort in the testing ground. “On paper, it looked disappointing, but I think it was more so the holding nature of the track,” he said. “Kavish (Chowdhoory, jockey) said that he came out like he did at Wanganui and was going to go as well as he could in that ground, but he just laboured and couldn’t quicken in it. “He had a really good blow after that race, so we might’ve just been a fraction kind on him as well and the holding track just tripped him up. “He went down to Hawera on Tuesday and galloped very well, has pulled up super, and I can’t fault him. With the home track advantage, I’m just hoping.” Kelly Myers has been given the nod aboard Belles Beau in the feature, while Mereana Hudson is shooting for three on the bounce with Sinbin, who gets a first opportunity at black-type in the race. “At the start of the winter, this was our goal, but she had to get some form to get there,” Patterson said. “She’s certainly done that and on the way she’s been going, she deserves her chance. “I can’t fault her, Lucy (trackwork rider) is very happy with her, she’s just a well horse.” Last, but certainly not least, Our Jumala completes Patterson’s Opunake Cup contingent, a Group Three-winning mare this season who has consistently featured in stakes company. She was given a decent freshen-up after an uncharacteristic effort in the Listed AGC Training Stakes (1600m) in May, which Patterson feels is the key to her chances. “We haven’t done a lot with her, she goes well fresh and we’ve just kept her ticking over,” he said. “We’ve gone down to Hawera for a couple of really good gallops, which she’s come through well. “She loves her home track, and she always seems to be a reasonable chance in this state.” Outside of the feature, Patterson will saddle four last-start winners across the card, including back-to-back winner Freebelle, who returns to maiden company in the Revital Fertilisers MAAT (1800m). “She just hasn’t put a foot wrong, she’s absolutely thriving and her work has been top-notch,” Patterson said. “My only query for her is being a very small mare carrying 58.5kg, but she carried 57kg against the Rating 65 horses on very testing ground and she’s back to maiden grade here. I’ve got my man Craig (Grylls) back on board, taking nothing away from Kavish though, he did a great job last time. She’s flying really.” Patterson holds a similarly high opinion of Ma Te Wa, a lightly-raced three-year-old taking the step into Rating 75 grade in the Sandfords Rural Carriers (1200m). “We’ve been a bit quiet on him, I gave him a week in the paddock and had intended to give him three weeks, but he was starting to hoon around so I thought he may as well come back in with the weather turning,” he said. “He’s a neat horse, he puts himself in a spot and hopefully can just keep galloping. He should be a good chance. “Both this horse and Jaegar, another horse that has won recently, both need time, they’re both just three-year-olds. They’ll probably go for a break after this.” Jaegar, alongside stablemate Beausk, will go head-to-head in the Delaval Coastal Agri MAAT (1400m), with the latter having missed a run at Te Rapa due to adverse weather blocking their usual route to the Waikato. “The Awakino Gorge collapsed, so we couldn’t make it to Te Rapa with him,” Patterson said. “We’ve kept him up to the mark, he’s travelled away for a few gallops. “He’s getting better and better, he had been a horse that was keen early and wouldn’t finish off as well as he could. But we’ve tinkered with some gear and Lemmy Douglas has been riding him, and he’s been relaxing very well. “I’d be disappointed if he doesn’t run a good race on Saturday.” In the UBP LTD Maiden (1100m), Patterson is looking forward to kicking off the career of Illustrious, a juvenile by Eminent that will carry the increasingly prominent colours of Daniel Nakhle. “We really like this horse, we’ve given him a couple of soft trials and I was going to trial him again on Tuesday, but I thought on our home track, with only a handful of horses in this race, we would put him in,’ he said. “I’m not expecting him to win on Saturday, but I think he’s a lovely horse that will be winning races, that’s for sure. I think he’ll be a really nice staying three-year-old. “Daniel Nakhle sent him down to me and it’s great to have a horse with him.” View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Star colt Savaglee (NZ) (Savabeel) is likely to be a notable absentee from all spring feature events. The Group One-winning son of Savabeel has returned from an extended break and is in light work at owner Dick Karreman’s The Oaks Stud. “You won’t see him probably until after Christmas, he could have a run here and then go to Australia,” trainer Pam Gerard said. “Obviously, he’s been off for quite a while for a colt and it’s hard to make a plan until we get him back to the stable and see how he’s working, but the aim is a Group One in Australia.” The Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) winner went close to a dream result in the autumn when he finished runner-up in the Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m), after which he was spelled. “He’s had a big couple of years, so we decided to leave him out for a bit longer,” Gerard said. “He’s doing some light work and will head to the water treadmill shortly and then we’ll see him back here at the stable.” Meanwhile, Gerard and connections have unfinished business at Riccarton with their stakes-winning mare Cork. The Matamata trainer has the seven-year-old on target for a third crack at the Gr.3 Winning Edge Presentations Winter Cup (1600m) and will continue her preparation at Rotorua on Saturday. Cork will complete her southern build-up in the Arawa Park Hotel Rotorua Handicap (1560m) with apprentice Jack Taplin’s claim to reduce her impost to 56kg. “We thought about going straight to Riccarton without racing again, but it’s a bit of a gap and she’s done very, very well,” Gerard said. “She’s flying at the moment, so we decided to have another run to keep her up to the mark and make sure she’s cherry ripe to go south.” Cork went close to claiming top Winter Cup honours when she beat all bar Belardo Boy in the 2023 edition, and 12 months ago finished midfield. “She ran second two years ago and then last year Lisa Allpress rode her and said the track was too sticky for her,” Gerard said. “We backed her up a week later and she went out and won on a looser track.” Cork emphasised she had come back from a spell in tip-top order with an impressive resuming victory in last month’s Listed Tauranga Classic (1400m). “In the past couple of years, we’ve had a go at that race and always given her a trial and run beforehand,” Gerard said. “It’s a bit bizarre and as they get older you think they may need a bit more racing, she’s always been a bit weak and backward and is finally matured. “After the way she trialled this time, we decided to do something different and run her fresh and it paid off.” The stable will also have Zerre in the Macmillan Accountants Maiden (1215m) and Khando in the House Of Elliot Maiden (1560m). “Zerre is a half-sister to (Group winner) Pendragon and went really well at Te Aroha in her first start back,” Gordon said. “She’s a very fast filly and has wanted to do everything at 100 miles an hour and we’ve finally got her settled nicely now. “Khando didn’t really like the track last time and didn’t go a bad race. She’s a late filly that wants to get up to 2000m, so we’ll give her this one and then go over more ground.” View the full article
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