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some great placement by some kiwi's there today . Emma Lee and David Brown have stepped it up a notch from racing the 'Elephant' and 'Rhinoceros' with McGAW who wins today a Million dollar race at Caulfield. They went absolutely nuts just now down at the running rail as McGAW at just his 2nd raceday start , wins his 2nd race . Todays worth $550,000 for the winner !! A nice step up from the 30k he picked up at his first run. I think they only paid a small amount for this horse at an Inglis Sale so have hit the Jackpot today !! A few other Kiwi Trainers might be tempted to set up in Oz now to join them and Natalie Young Trent Busuttin and others that are cleaning up some Big bucks in the Lucky country. -
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Pride Of Jenni ridden by Craig Newitt winning the Group 2 Peter Young Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse. (Photo by George Sal/Racing Photos) Pride Of Jenni has returned to racing with a bang after claiming a dominant win in the Group 2 Peter Young Stakes at Caulfield, with Craig Newitt piloting the Ciaron Maher-trained mare to an impressive first-up triumph. After opening as a -125 favourite with horse racing bookmakers on Wednesday, the daughter of Pride Of Dubai was sent out as a +260 second favourite. Many expected Newitt to replicate similar tactics to what Declan Bates did throughout his time riding the star mare, and he made sure that the race was run at a brutal tempo, leading by four lengths over from Bois D’argent going past the halfway mark. A cheeky look from Newitt at the 600m mark indicated that he thought the leader was going well, and he wasn’t wrong, as Pride Of Jenni continued to find around the home turn. Zardozi started to take ground off the eventual winner in the concluding stages, but it was to no avail, as Pride Of Jenni cantered over the line to win by 2.5 lengths. 2025 Peter Young Stakes replay – Pride Of Jenni https://horsebetting.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Caulfield-2025-Group-2-Peter-Young-Stakes-15032025-Pride-Of-Jenni-Ciaron-Maher-Craig-Newitt.mp4 Jack Turnbull represented the stable in the post-race interview. “Right up there, Group Two, but just the lead up into this race and obviously the form she had in the spring and what she’d done to herself, just an amazing team effort to get her back,” Turnbull said. “Very thankful for Tony and Lynn for giving us that opportunity. “Big effort for the team too, Sammy does all the riding, and we have a very good group of staff down there at Cranbourne and with the facility there, we’re able to get her ready off one jump out. “We’ve got a lot of information on her, a lot of workouts and the like to compare, and we’d just done certain workouts that were pretty tough in our standards and she just bounced through them, and Ciaron was there a few times and scratched his head and thought, hang on, we’re a bit more forward than we think we are. “We just kept putting the pressure on, and she just kept stepping up; even throughout this week, she had a good bit of work on the Saturday, and again on the Tuesday. “She is just a freak of nature, she’s a credit to herself. “Given the way she’s run there and won, the Australian Cup would have to be looked at for sure, but then up in Sydney you’ve got races like Queen Of The Turf if you come back in trip slightly, and then the Queen Elizabeth would be her ultimate grand final, but for the moment we’ll just savour this win.” Craig Newitt was very complimentary of the stable and owners about the work they had done to get the mare back to racing. “She’s going the right way about it. Fair play to Tony and Lynn,” Newitt said. “They put their backsides on the line to bring her back into work when everyone had their opinion that he shouldn’t have. “Fair credit to him, it’s been justified today. “Ciaron and his team, they just do a tremendous job and they know this mare inside out so I’m just very grateful to be part of the ride now. “The old girl, when she turned down the side at the half mile, she grabbed hold of the bridle and basically said, hang on. “So I just went with her and she picked up the tempo. “I thought she might have just been starting to fatigue a little bit, but I put one round her tail and she dropped the gear and disappeared. “She ran through the line as solid as anything, so she’ll only take great benefit from the run and by all signs, she looks like she’s pulled up traffic, so it’s very exciting. “It’s a great reward for hard work. I work all year round, and we live to get on these sorts of mares. I’m grateful for the opportunity, and hopefully we can continue.” Horse racing news View the full article -
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Memo ridden by Kerrin McEvoy coming back to the mounting yard after winning the Group 3 Magic Night Stakes. Photo: bradleyphotos.com.au Kerrin McEvoy has recorded back-to-back Group triumphs at Rosehill by piloting Memo to victory in the Group 3 Magic Night Stakes, following his win on Skyhook in the previous race. The Peter Snowden-trained filly has solid formlines throughout her career, after racing Group or Listed grade in her first five starts for four placings, including a second-place finish in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic at the Gold Coast. Although she started as a +800 chance with horse racing bookmakers, the daughter of Capitalist still had admirers after opening at +900 on raceday. As expected, the race favourite with Picklebet, Strada Varenna, took up the lead at the front of the big field, ahead of Open Secret, Gambers, and Autumn Blonde, who would have been happy with their positions throughout. The leader turned around the home bend with a good lead and kicked at the 300m mark, but the challengers were coming from everywhere, with Custom and Dream Side making their runs on either side of the leader. However, it was the runners in the middle of the track that were going far better, as Memo raced up to Dream Side and took over at the 50m mark. Memo continued to pull away from Dream Side and took out the race by a long neck on the line, while Alabama Magic ran home strongly into third place. Click here for all Rosehill race replays. Peter Snowden spoke to the media after the victory. “She’s run in some very good races with close seconds and thirds, but today was the day,” Snowden said. “It’s too early to make a call yet (on the Golden Slipper). “I’ve got to talk to all the owners about it. In my mind the Percy Sykes, she’s a chance of getting there. “She’s had a long season, she’s been to every dance, and to back up again after a week and a very hot day today probably might be one bridge too far for her. “But she’s done a great job. “It was the plan to get that far back. He knew where to get to on the track today, and he was quite adamant that’s the best place to be.” After recording a riding double through four races, Kerrin McEvoy was very happy with the victory post-race. “I wasn’t too happy when she missed the start, and we were a long way further back than what we thought. But full credit to her, and Pete and his team,” McEvoy said. “They’ve done a good job because it was just a run last time but showed on Tuesday morning that she’d come on well and she did a good job there because we had to give them a start. She showed a good turn of foot. “It might be smart just to wait for the big race to go and then attack once we get to Randwick. “She’s a nice filly in the making, and she showed that in the Magic Millions when she was a nice second there. So there’s some nice options for her moving forward. “It’s nice to have a couple of winners, yeah. It’s been enjoyable so far.” Horse racing news View the full article -
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Waitak winning Saturday’s Gr.2 Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m) at Tauranga. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) A week after Blake Shinn’s rail-skimming masterclass to guide Damask Rose from last to first in the inaugural NZB Kiwi (1500m), Ryan Elliot followed a similar script to help Waitak triumph in Saturday’s Group.2 Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m) at Tauranga. The $150,000 feature was a step down in class following a string of high-class summer assignments for Waitak, who has contested 10 Group One races in his 30-start career. The Proisir gelding had gone winless since taking out the Group 1 Sistema Railway (1200m) in January of 2024, but he has subsequently run eighth in the Group 1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m), ninth in the A$5 million The Quokka (1200m), fourth in the Group 2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m), fifth in the Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m), third in the Group 3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215m), third in the Group 3 Counties Bowl (1100m), second in the Group 3 Concorde Stakes (1200m), ninth in the Group 1 Telegraph (1200m), sixth in the Railway, fourth in the BCD Group Sprint, and a strong-finishing sixth in last month’s Group 1 Otaki-Maori WFA Classic (1600m). Waitak looked well placed on Saturday even with his 58kg topweight and wide draw, and so it proved – with a bit of help from Elliot. Riding Waitak for the first time, Elliot was in no hurry coming out of the gates and was happy to settle a long way off the speed in second-last. The only horse behind him was Dionysus, who was detached from the field after blowing the start. Leroy Brown put the handlebars down and strung the race right out, leading by upwards of six lengths coming down the side of the track. The leader rolled off the fence rounding the home turn, and Elliot spotted a golden path along the rail. Waitak never went around a horse, bursting through the inside as the in-form Taranaki raider Herbert tackled a tiring Leroy Brown. Herbert briefly took the lead at the 200-metre mark, but then Waitak charged past him and powered clear, opening up a winning margin of three lengths. Herbert held on for second, a length in front of Aegon and Wild Night. “I got a good run along the inside in the Kiwi last week (on the fourth-placed Sought After), but I never knew Blake was going to come through underneath me like he did,” Elliot said. “I thought I might try to do the same thing today. *Not many horses are going wide and making up much ground today, so we tried our luck and it paid off. *He travelled fine all the way. He’s a big old horse who gets into his rhythm, breathes well and finds his stride. He just needs a bit of room, and then away he goes. *He’s the sort of horse where a lot of his performances say ‘next time, next time’, but he’s done a great job today. It’s good to get a Group winner in these Wexford colours. I’ve hardly ever ridden for them before, but I’ve been doing a bit of work for them here and there, and it’s starting to pay off.” Elliot’s ride earned high praise from Waitak’s co-trainer, Lance O’Sullivan, whose own glittering career in the saddle earned him induction into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame. “That was some win, and what a ride by Ryan,” O’Sullivan said. “He was a long way off them, and coming through the inside proved to be the winning of the race. The horse won with a bit in hand as well, which was great to see.” Bred by the late Colin Devine and raced by his widow Jill, Waitak has had 30 starts for five wins, nine placings, and $860,237. He has been a quality performer over a range of distances, from his 1200m heroics in last year’s Railway to his second in the Gr.2 Avondale Guineas (2100m) and fifth in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) as a three-year-old two summers ago. “I’m just thrilled for his owners,” O’Sullivan said. *“The horse has been running terrific races, but has been plagued by a fair bit of bad luck this season. It was good to see him get his chance today and do what he did. He’s super versatile. He’s been performing well over the shorter trips lately, but we just ran out of options there and Andrew and I elected to run him over a bit further again. It’s just a great result today.” Horse racing news View the full article -
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Orlov winning the Carpet Maintenance & Cleaning Open (2040m) at Wanganui on Saturday. Photo: Jack McKenzie (Race Images Palmerston North) Consistent galloper Orlov picked up his ninth career victory when he took out the feature event on the Wanganui card, the Carpet Maintenance & Cleaning Open (2040m), in the process providing trainer David Haworth with a winning double on the day. The seven-year-old son of Sweynesse had enjoyed a purple patch of form towards the end of his autumn campaign last season, and early in his current preparation he was narrowly beaten by Group One performer Whangaehu in the Listed Wanganui Cup (2040m). Unplaced at his next three starts, he bounced back to winning form with a vengeance on Saturday as he produced a strong staying effort to down race favourite Tshiebwe in a dour struggle over the final 300m of the contest. Rider Kate Hercock, who had earlier scored aboard the promising Cut Loose for Haworth in the second race on the card, was content to bide her time third last in the field of seven runners before setting out after pacemakers Tshiebwe, Kick On, and Heart Of Gold, who had poured the pressure on at the 600m. Despite giving Tshiebwe 6kgs in the handicap, Orlov proved too good for his lighter weighted rival in the concluding stages, winning by a comfortable length with Duncan Creek battling on well for third. Haworth had been looking for an improved performance from his charge, although he had been prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt at his last two unplaced runs, which were over 1600m, a distance unsuited to the stayer. “He won well today, and we’re very pleased with him,” Haworth said. “His work at home had been good, and I was quietly confident of a good showing. “We just haven’t been able to get a suitable race for him as the races have been called off a few times, so back to a track he likes and over a bit more ground, I was expecting to see him in the finish.” The two victories also took Haworth’s overall career record to 495 wins and tantalisingly close to the coveted 500-win milestone, something he is keen to achieve. “Five hundred wins is something I really want to do and I’m keen to tick that goal off as soon as I can,” he said. “I’ve only got five in work at the moment, but I think both of the horses that won today have more in store in the next couple of months, so hopefully they can get me even closer to that target.” Orlov is raced by a group including his trainer, who co-bred him, and is the first foal of Diamond Cut, a daughter of Guillotine, who won four races in a truncated 13-start career that was curtailed by injury. He comes from an extended family that includes multiple Australian Group One winner Stony Bay, while he also traces back to outstanding gallopers Romanee Conti, Grand Echezeaux, and champion New Zealand two and three-year-old Darci Brahma who went on to a stellar career at stud following his outstanding racetrack performances. Orlov has now won nine of his 39 starts and just under $215,000 in prizemoney. Horse racing news View the full article
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