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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
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Golden Horn, the sire of this year's dual Group 1-winning stayer Trawlerman and Champion Hurdle heroine Golden Ace, will stand for the unchanged fee of £10,000 at Overbury Stud in 2026. “Golden Horn has had an impressive year under both codes. To sire winners of the Champion Hurdle, Triumph Hurdle and the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot within a few months is simply exceptional, and his 15% stakes horses to runners ratio on the Flat is outstanding,” said the stallion's owner, Jayne McGivern. “Golden Horn has every right to command a higher fee next year, especially as he is consistently over-subscribed, but I am mindful of the choices breeders have and would rather support breeders by continuing to offer him as the best value available. I am so pleased to be able to thank all of his supporters by holding his fee for a further year at £10,000. It is especially gratifying to note that he already has many mares already booked for 2026 and that Flat breeders are returning in significant numbers.” Elsewhere on the Overbury Stud roster, Ardad has had his fee reduced to £7,500 (from £12,500), having sired 36 individual two-year-old winners in 2025, more than any other stallion in Britain and behind only Wootton Bassett and Mehmas in Europe. “Ardad is getting exactly what so many breeders, trainers and owners want: horses that get going early and provide lots of terrific sport,” said Overbury manager Simon Sweeting. “His best price for a yearling in 2025 was 180,000gns and he's a very reliable sire of £35k-£40k yearlings. It's a competitive market and we think he's several lengths ahead of his field, especially at his new fee.” Meanwhile, Caturra, who will be represented by his first juvenile runners in 2026, will stand at £5,000 for the third consecutive year, while the fees for the three National Hunt stallions on the roster also remain unchanged. Jack Hobbs will once again command a fee of £4,000, with Frontiersman and Schiaparelli both at £2,000. The post Overbury Stud’s Golden Horn Remains Steady at £10,000 after Banner Year appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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By Michael Guerin It turns out fortune really does favour the brave. Well, the brave who happen to own a Victoria Cup winner and have $25,000 lying around a week or two out from the IRT New Zealand Cup, which was won in physics-defying fashion by Kingman at Addington. The New South Wales pacer continued Australia’s recent domination of the 3200m thriller by sitting three wide for the last 1400m and still proving too good for favourite and fellow Aussie raider Leap To Fame. It was the second occasion Kingman has beaten Leap To Fame in a month and the first time made the second time possible. Before reaching a new career peak winning the Victoria Cup at Melton on October 18, Kingman wasn’t in the New Zealand Cup conversation, or more importantly the entries. He came off a sub-par Leap To Fame’s back that night to beat him and animated owner-breeder Mick Harvey started to dream. For that dream to become reality he had to dig deep, like $25,000 plus GST deep, the late entry fee to get Kingman into today’s race. While it might have come out of the Victoria Cup stake it is still not small change and a hell of a risk to take with a four-year-old pacer just starting his open class journey and one who had never had a standing start. Harvey gambled and won. Although it didn’t quite look that simple when Kingman was near last at the half away stage of the 3200m Cup with the two favourites first and second. Trainer-driver Luke McCarthy, the polished prince of harness racing, had no choice but to ask Kingman to do it the hard way three wide, which got even harder when the muscular stallion started to hang at the 1000m mark. That should have been his chances extinguished, $25,000 plus the same in expenses down the drain. Clearly, Kingman can’t count. He covered the most ground, did the most wrong but took a deep breath at the 250 mark and went again, an equine boxer throwing his knockout punch in the championship rounds. It was so brutal it bordered on rude. You aren’t supposed to come to other’s houses and play the bully. McCarthy had gone into the Cup full of belief in his horse but realistic about the challenges for their after-thought bonus race. Icing on a cake never tasted so good. “He is wonderful horse but I’ll admit I didn’t think he could sit three wide and win,” he said. “I had to move to get closer even though I knew I wouldn’t get the breeze off Leap To Fame because I knew if I waited much longer he’d get pushed out when I did go. “He did the rest and he is just a special horse and I’m so proud to win this for Mick.” This New Zealand Cup also provides a new zenith in the storied career of McCarthy, who has won Miracle Miles and Inter Dominion and drove the first two winners of the world’s richest harness race, the Eureka on his home track of Menangle. “I have been lucky enough to go all over the world, to races like the Elitlopp in Sweden and the Little Brown Jug in the States but this is the best race day in harness racing and I have always wanted to win the Cup.” It was the second year running a horse trained at Menangle has won the Victoria Cup, paid the late entry fee, come to New Zealand and returned home with the Cup, after Swayzee did it last season. Leap To Fame was magnificent in second after sitting parked throughout while Merlin ducked into a gap looking the winner for a few seconds at the 150m before finishing third. That was just ahead of stablemate Better Knuckle Up, who came from last for fourth and had “NZ Cup 2026” written all over him. That is, of course, if they ban Victoria Cup winners, or horses making late payments getting into the Cup next year. Or maybe Australian horses all together Because the way things are going the New Zealand Cup is going to need a name change soon. View the full article -
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By Michael Guerin Harness racing had its “Cool Runnings” moment in the $400,000 Renwick Farms Dominion Trot at Addington. You might remember the 1993 movie based on the true story about the first Jamaican Bobsled team to go to the Winter Olympics. Well, that was kind of what Queensland trotter Gus did in New Zealand’s greatest trot race on Tuesday. Except unlike the lads from Jamaica, Gus won. The former rogue whose brain has often struggled to keep up with his legs smashed many of Australasia’s best trotters after a surging mid-race run that carried him from near last to first and ultimately an effortless victory. This is not supposed to be how it works. Queensland does a lot of things well, producing great trotters isn’t one of them. Actually producing trotters at all isn’t one of them. The Sunshine State’s harness racing industry is very much pacing based and trotting plays a minor role there, more substantial than a decade or two ago when it was pure novelty value, but small time stuff nevertheless. Queensland had a really good trotter called Our Overanova a few years ago but the state has never had a real Grand Circuit trotting regular and never a conqueror. Not until today and nothing like today. Gus was actually bred and educated in New Zealand by Southland trainer Nathan Williamson, for who he had two starts for one huge win before being sold to Queensland. He has given husband and wife team Chantal Turpin and Pete McMullen plenty of headaches since but he has now also given them the greatest win of their careers. “We brought him over here thinking if he paid for himself it would be great,” said McMullen, one of the stars of Queensland harness racing driving where he is known as “Leader Peter” for his freewheeling style. “We knew how fast he was but we also realised how big the challenge was. “When I let him go he got around them quickly but he never came off the bit and was very strong to the line. “It is a huge thrill for us, you don’t realise how big today is until you come here and it is something special to pull off a win like this.” McMullen says Gus is likely to back up in the $100,000 Azap New Zealand Trotting Free-For-All on Friday providing he comes through today’s win well, and it is hard to believe he won’t because he simply won so easily. Mr Love added a Dominion second to his Rowe Cup rununer-up prize and was very brave while Oscar Bonavena and favourite Jilliby Ballerini headlined the hard luck stories alongside Mighty Logan. Oscar got trapped back in the field, always a risk for a horse usually driven for one run, and locked wheels at the top of the straight before storming into third. For all the concerns about her manners favourite Jilliby Ballerini was majestic early and got the perfect trail behind fellow Victorian in Arcee Phoenix but he surprisingly punctured when Gus strode past him at the 600m and took Jilliby Ballerini’s hopes with him. She made good ground and confirmed she is well and truly up to this grade and her future looks bright even if today will feel like the one that got away. Mighty Logan suffered a similar fate while most of those involved in the early burns paid the price in another brutal race on harness racing’s glamour day. But this Dominion belonged to Gus on the biggest day in Queensland trotting history. Almost sounds like a movie. View the full article -
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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Canadian James MacDonald has today claimed his second World Driving Championship title, with Kiwi Blair Orange finishing fourth. The 20th and final heat of the WDC was held as part of IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup day at Addington this afternoon. With a 15 point lead going into today MacDonald could only be pipped for the title if he finished last and nearest challenger, Australian Gary Hall junior won. As it turned out neither of those scenarios played out in the Mitre 10 World Driving Championship Heat 20 (Mobile Trot) over 2600 metres. Both finished down the field with MacDonald eighth with Alotoftrouble and Gary Hall junior was last with Peaknmonkey. That was enough for MacDonald to clinch his second WDC title, adding to the one he won in Canada in 2017. He totaled 168 points to beat Hall by 17 (151). In the final heat He Aint Fakin for Italian Giampaolo Minnucci was the hot favourite at $1.75. It was just the horse’s second start as a trotter for trainer Phil Williamson after excelling as a pacer across the Tasman. And his performance was impressive. He sat parked outside Donna’s Boy, driven by American Brett Beckwith, and still had too much in reserve to show he has a real future as a square-gaiter. New Zealand’s Blair Orange had no luck with Yosemite, who broke in the running, and finished sixth. He finished the WDC with 136 points. Final leaderboard (after 20 heats) : James MacDonald (Canada) 168 Gary Hall junior (Australia) 151 Jaap van Rijn (Netherlands) 141 Blair Orange (New Zealand) 136 Matts Djuse (Sweden) 132 Pierre Vercruysse (France) 120 Michael Nimczyk (Germany) 119 Brett Beckwith (USA) 115 Giampaolo Minnucci (Italy) 112 Sanntu Raitala (Finland) 104 Ten drivers from all over the world have been involved in the WDC. It’s the first time New Zealand has been the sole host of the WDC with the heats being held at Kaikoura, Cambridge, Winton and Addington over the past nine days. Jaap van Rijn (The Netherlands) had the most individual wins of the WDC with 4, ahead of James MacDonald (Canada) and Mats Djuse (Sweden) with 3, Gary Hall Junior (Australia), Blair Orange (New Zealand), Giampaolo Minnucci (Italy) and Pieree Vecruysse (France) all 2 and Brett Beckwith (USA), and Michael Nimczyk (Germany) one each. To add to a great day for the land of the Maple Leaf, Canada was announced as the host of the next WDC in 2027. View the full article
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