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About to Jump . The Interdominion will begin shortly and best of luck to all the runners and the BOAY Teams s of Brodie, the Galah , Mikey, Chief, Gamma TAB and Ranga. SCRATCHING replacements . these horses now in your teams for the series. For Mikey FREE THINKER is in his team now R2. (BlacksADance Scratched so is replaced) For Chief DOUGS PLATTER 🤣 is in R3 tonight (Mossdale Terry scratched so is replaced) For The Galah GOLDEN SUNSET is in R5 (Masterly scratched so is replaced ) For Gamma LOVE GUN is in team now R6 ( Harold Smith scratched so is replaced ) results here after each race once the finishing order is determined . Enjoy the Racing !!! -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Four-year-old mare Good Banter was back in the winner’s circle when narrowly prevailing in the Catanach’s Jewellers Handicap (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday for trainers John O’Shea and Tom Charlton. The daughter of Tavistock hadn’t greeted the judge first since her triumph in the Gr.3 Adrian Knox Stakes (2000m) in April of last year but had shown positive signs in trackwork before her success on the improving Soft 7 surface. Ridden by Dylan Gibbons, Good Banter settled just forward of midfield and enjoyed a clear passage despite ducking in late to get the better of Cormac T to score by a neck. “She has been going so well at home and hadn’t quite reflected that on the track but she got a good ride today from Dylan and she did a good job to get herself back in the winner’s stall,” O’Shea said. “She has been a mare a long time out of the winner’s stall and had probably forgotten how to do it and it will do her the world of good. We had been so happy with her at home and we needed her to bring that A-game to the races, and she has done that today.” In-form rider Dylan Gibbons was pleased with the position he was able to find in the run. “My only concern with her today was I didn’t want to land too far back, and I was able to land three-back,” he said. “Ideally, I wanted the fence but the tempo was beautiful, we coped no pressure from back and it was just a matter of getting her around the corner. “I didn’t want to surge too soon and when no one stopped, she had to be tough today. “It is good to see a horse who hadn’t won in a while be able to go on with it like she did today, so it was a good effort. “She will take good confidence from that and I don’t think she really loved how much the track is drying out, so if they get a bit of rain she could easily win again.” Good Banter was bred by Blandford Lodge’s Helen-Gaye and Graham Bax and is out of the Savabeel mare Danza Kuduro. Herself a three-time winner on the racetrack, Danza Kuduro is a half-sister to the dual Group One winner Danzdanzdance and the Listed winner Le Gai Soleil, who was also prepared by O’Shea. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Winter specialist Caitlyns Wish was in her element in the extremely testing conditions at Te Rapa on Saturday and scored a determined front-running victory in the Group One Turf Bar Sprint (1200m). The $40,000 open handicap was the seventh win of a 24-start career for the daughter of Belardo, with all of those victories coming on heavy tracks. She has made a habit of winning at Te Rapa around this time of year, taking out a 1200m three-year-old race in July of 2023 and a 1200m open handicap last June. The five-year-old had been a bit below that level in the early stages of her latest preparation. Her first three runs back had produced an eighth, a fifth and a fourth, beaten by a combined margin of more than 25 lengths. But trainer Stephen Autridge headed to Te Rapa on Saturday with a feeling that Caitlyns Wish was about to turn the corner. “It’s just taken a while to build up her fitness this time in,” the Matamata horseman said. “She’s pretty robust and just keeps thriving, and I can’t give her any more work. “But today she had a lot of things in her favour. She won a similar race here last winter, where she led and kicked again, and it was more of the same today. She just loves when there’s a bit of rain on the day. I could see a fair way out that she was travelling well.” Caitlyns Wish has been ridden to all but one of her seven wins by Maria Sanson, who was in the saddle again on Saturday. The chestnut mare broke well from gate two and was sent forward by Sanson to take up an early lead. The pair’s rivals tried to put Caitlyns Wish under pressure a long way from home. Cleat went forward and sat on her outside coming down the side of the track, while Gospodin, Dusty Road and Martell were all breathing down her neck and poised to strike at the home turn. But Caitlyns Wish dug deep and fought ferociously all the way down the straight. She refused to relinquish her advantage and held her challengers at bay to win by half a length. “I was giving her a growl and a slap on the shoulder, but I didn’t want to unbalance her in this ground today,” Sanson said. “This is probably the heaviest track I’ve ever seen at Te Rapa. It’s hard work out there. “She’s had a few runs this time in. She was able to win second-up last winter, but has taken a bit longer this year. She was about 600kg after her summer spell, so she had a bit of weight to lose. But she’s reached that level of fitness now, the tracks are heavy, and she should be able to go on with it. “I’ve won six on her now and ride her in all her trackwork, so she’s a horse I’ve had a lot to do with. I’m very happy to get another win on her today.” Autridge indicated that Caitlyns Wish might return to Te Rapa for the $50,000 open handicap over 1300m on July 26. “We’ll definitely look to come back here for that next meeting,” he said. “The only issue is we generally prefer to stick to 1200m, because she can’t go much further than that.” View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Japanese apprentice Yuga Okubo cheekily suggested he could win four races at Te Rapa on Saturday from his four rides during a pre-raceday interview on Saturday morning and he nearly made good on that promise as he completed a winning treble with victory aboard Drop Of Something in the main flat race on the day, the UBP Te Awamutu Cup (1600m) The winner of four races in Japan before his arrival in New Zealand in early 2024, the likeable Okubo has created a good impression on some influential members of the racing community including trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott who provided the first of his winning treble with Ribkraka taking out race three on the card. Okubo scored again aboard the Tim & Margaret Carter-prepared Family Folks in race six by weaving a path towards the inside rail in the home straight and he repeated that pattern aboard Drop Of Something just one race later. The Wayne Hillis-trained five-year-old son of Telperion had shown he was ready to win again after finishing third behind Soldier Boy at the venue last month and performed up to expectations as he settled well back before Okubo began to hustle him along closer to the inside as the leading pack ran wide around the home bend. Just as it looked like race favourite Joshua Brown would hold off all challengers, Drop Of Something forged to the lead at the 100m and went on to win by a long neck from the favourite and Diamond Jak who battled gamely for third. Hillis didn’t have high hopes for a winning result when he saw how far back his charge was as runners headed to the home bend. “I was thinking we were no chance on the corner as we were back and he didn’t look like he was going that good while I thought the place to be was wider out and not on the inner,” Hillis said. “To his credit the boy stuck to his guns and he had won on a similar path in the previous race so he knew it wasn’t that bad down there. “I’ve had him (Okubo) on a few now and he is very balanced and has a lot of potential. You don’t get many 4kg claimers who are as strong as he is and I would expect he is going to be very popular over the next few months.” Hillis is looking forward to another Te Rapa prize at the end of the month with Drop Of Something being aimed at the Callinan Family Taumarunui Gold Cup (2100m) on 26 July. “This guy does like the mud and he has really strengthened up in the past year,” he said. “He tries really hard and I think he is ready to go further than a mile now. ‘We’d like to take him to New Plymouth for an open 1800m race on Opunake Cup day then back him up a week later in the Taumarunui Gold Cup.” Bred by the late Emma Evans and racing under the Evans Breeding Ltd banner, Drop Of Something is a son of the Don Eduardo mare Nothing More and has now won seven of his 42 starts and over $224,000 in prizemoney. View the full article
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