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Funny, i always remember any decent collects by trainers / Jockeys. Canterbury Belle a fav, didnt make much off her but was there when she won 1000 race. Facing The Music, had a decent go on her when she won for CJ…. i took 2 days off work after to recover🫣 But my best punt on a CJ winner was Final Touch winning Telegraph. A few went to Wellington for a few days to watch, had some decent bets fixed odds before race…. we met at local TAB / Pub on Friday before, forgot name but is the popular one…. got on the grog and boys biffed in a few bucks for syndicate, had a great day on punt. We cashed out $500 each ( which probably just covered my booze and strip club afta😬😉) and i said to mate, just put whats left and a few other bets we had going on Final Touch EW…. i had no idea that evening how much bet was… but next morning at breakfast he said we had $614 ew, as well as a few box trfs etc…. Well…. a great result when she surged home to win, everyones trip well paid for. Always great to remember the great days, i dont remember the 1000s poor days in between😊 -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Kelvin Tyler is excited about the future with Freddie Time after he came within a nose of victory in last Saturday’s Gr.3 Manawatu Cup (2300m) at Trentham. The four-year-old son of Time Test showed plenty of ability last season, winning on debut at Riverton on New Year’s Day before placing in the Listed Dunedin Guineas (1600m) and running fourth in the Gr.3 Manawatu Classic (2100m). The Riverton horseman thought enough of his gelding to campaign him in Australia over winter, and while he was unplaced in his sole start across the Tasman, he took plenty of benefit from the trip. Freddie Time has continued to impress Tyler this season, winning two races while based out of Howie Mathews’ Otaki barn, and he was rapt to see his strong finish on Saturday where he came close to pipping runaway leader Sagunto on the line. “It was really exciting,” Tyler said. “He has really come forward a long way and he is going to go to the top, I am pretty sure about that. He has done really well for a young horse, he’s only four.” Tyler said Freddie Time has come through the run well and he will now likely target the Listed Vernon & Vazey Truck Parts LTD Marton Cup (2200m) at Trentham on January 3. “He had a trot and canter this (Monday) morning and he is perfect. He is eating everything and he has bounced out of it and is ready to go again,” Tyler said. “The obvious one would be the Marton Cup. I thought about going up north for something like the Queen Elizabeth (Gr.3, 2400m, at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day), but it is coming up a bit quick with the trip away, right-handed and you never know how the track is going to play up there, it might not suit him. We will be patient, run him in the Marton Cup and go from there.” Closer to home, Tyler finished the weekend in pleasing fashion when recording a winning double at Gore on Sunday, courtesy of Fourofus and Mamaea. “Gore is always a nice track,” he said. “We had some nice chances going into it, so it was nice to get a couple of wins.” Tyler is now looking forward to heading to Wingatui on Boxing Day where he will line-up a quintet of runners. “I am going there with five high-quality horses, I am quite excited going into Friday,” he said. Indie Ardie heads into the Property Brokers – Ray Kean R65 2200 in a purple patch of form, having won one and placed in three of her four starts this preparation, and Tyler is hoping she can extend that sequence on Friday. “Indie Ardie is flying at the moment,” he said. “She probably should have won on both days at Cromwell. “She has had a bit of a freshen since then, she doesn’t take a lot of work, and her gallop on Saturday morning was probably as good as I have seen. I am quite excited for her, especially getting over a bit of ground.” Stable veteran Prince Alby will contest the Grand Casino Open 2200, with his fresh-up run readying him for next month’s Gr.3 NZ Campus Of Innivation & Sport Wellington Cup (3200m) at Trentham. “He is really mature now and probably looks the best he has ever looked,” Tyler said. “It is a good starting point for him and all going well he will go up for the Wellington Cup. “He is in really good order and he will go a good race. With a bit of rain about, the track is going to be off, so that should suit him, and he comes into the race really well in the weights.” Stablemate Ripa Time will be seeking black-type when she lines-up in the Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1400m), and Tyler believes she is up to the task. “She is a really nice filly,” he said. “I know she is still a maiden, but she has certainly got ability. If the rain comes it might slow a few down and she won’t be out of it. It is a bit of an ask for her but hopefully she can perform.” Tyler will also be represented by last-start runner-up performers Flash Roca and Sight To See in the ODT Southern Mile Heat (1600m). “Both of them are really good horses and rain won’t bother either of them,” he said. “They have really come forward and I can see both of them going really good races.” View the full article -
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No-one knows better than Lance O’Sullivan what it takes to win the Gr.1 TAB Telegraph (1200m), which is as good a recommendation as any around the engagement of James McDonald for Tomodachi in the Trentham Group One sprint. During O’Sullivan’s storied jockey career, encompassing 12 premierships and 62 Group One wins in his homeland as well as international majors for a career tally of 2,479, the Telegraph stands like a beacon. O’Sullivan rode the winner of the famous Trentham sprint a record six times and last January he joined his father Dave and brother Paul on the trainers’ honour roll with Grail Seeker. On January 3 he and Wexford Stables partner Andrew Scott will be double-handed in the 2026 edition of the Telegraph with Grail Seeker set to be joined by Tomodachi. The latter firmed to $3.80 favouritism following the weekend announcement that McDonald will make a special trip to Trentham to ride her in the $550,000 feature, while Grail Seeker shares the second line with Crocetti at $5. Coming up 14 years ago, McDonald added the Telegraph to his growing list of big wins when he combined with Guiseppina to down the Australian raiders Atomic Force and Nash Rawiller, who three weeks earlier had won the Gr.1 Railway Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie. Like all others trained by Stephen Ramsay and Julia Ritchie, Guiseppina raced in the royal blue and white hooped colours of her breeder Sir Peter Vela, which is the common thread leading to McDonald’s engagement for Tomodachi. “The booking was made by Sir Peter’s racing manager Gary Cossey and we were very happy to receive confirmation,” O’Sullivan said on Monday. “James is obviously a world class jockey, he knows how to win the Telegraph, and for our part Tomodachi is right on target, so hopefully it will all come together with the right result.” Tomodachi and Grail Seeker were both ridden in the most recent phase of near-identical preparations by Joe Doyle, who has been confirmed for the defending Telegraph title-holder. They were placed in separate 1100m trials at the start of last Friday’s Matamata race meeting, satisfying their connections that all is well ahead of their Trentham mission. “We’re happy with both mares and even though their work patterns are a lot different, we’re confident that they’re on target,” O’Sullivan said. McDonald last rode in New Zealand almost two years ago, when he claimed the Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) and 3YO (1600m) double on Velocious and Orchestral. More recently before another Hong Kong stint, he signed off a productive Australian spring carnival on the final day of Melbourne Cup week when completing a Melbourne Group One double on Via Sistina. Having already claimed his fourth consecutive Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) and his second on the Chris Waller-trained mare, he and the champion expat trainer combined for their 50th Group One together with Via Sistina in the Gr.1 Champions Stakes (2000m) at Flemington. McDonald’s Hong Kong stint ended on Saturday with a double at Sha Tin, taking his tally there for the season to date to 13 wins from 84 rides, with his mounts’ combined earnings of HK$47 million placing him second on that metric to resident champion Zac Purton. Having been awarded his third World’s Best Jockey trophy at the start of the Longines Hong Kong International Meeting, McDonald combined with local champion Romantic Warrior for a record fourth consecutive victory in the Gr.1 Hong Kong Cup (2000m). A commitment to the world record stake-earner for his next Hong Kong start will prevent McDonald from attending the Karaka Millions meeting at Ellerslie, however, his single-race cameo appearance at Trentham on January 3 is bound to draw an audience befitting the occasion. View the full article -
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Young Cambridge Stud stallion Sword Of State has landed another timely winning blow across the Tasman. The son of Snitzel is two for two in Australia, with his first representative Torture claiming the Listed Debutant Stakes (1000m) for Lindsay Park and at Randwick on Saturday his second runner Warwoven scored on debut. Not to be outdone, associate sire Almanzor is also on a hot run, with Argo and Rambling On combining for a Te Rapa double, Touchdown and Roadcone scored at Caulfield and Lux Libertas was an impressive winner at Trentham. She was triumphant in the Listed Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m) at Trentham to add to Almanzor’s recent black type victories courtesy of Qali Al Farrasha (Gr.2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes, 1400m), Mary Shan (Gr.3 Great Northern Challenge Stakes, 1600m) and First Five (Gr.3, J Swap Sprint, 1400m). Sword Of State’s son Warwoven is prepared at Warwick Farm by Bjorn Baker and is now headed toward the A$3 million Magic Millions (1200m) at the Gold Coast on January 17. “We don’t want to get too carried away, but when you look at how many eyes are on those races it was an awesome result,” Cambridge Stud’s Sales and Nominations Manager Scott Calder said. “The manner in which the horse won, and the significance of this time of the year as a pre-Christmas two-year-old leading into the Magic Millions, was terrific. “With all the expectation on the stallion with the way they have sold (up to $540,000) and having already had a stakes winner with his other runner in Australia, it’s very exciting.” Warwoven was bred by Kia Ora Stud and sold out of their draft at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale for $380,000 to Ridgmont, Bjorn Baker Racing, S & J Gosling and Clarke Bloodstock. He is the first foal of the Makfi mare Needle And Thread, winner of the Gr.2 Royal Stakes (2000m). “Kia Ora came in as a shareholder in Sword Of State and they purchased Needle And Thread through the Valachi dispersal,” Calder said. Sword Of State will be well-represented in Cambridge Stud’s draft to New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale, including a half-brother (Lot 513) to the farm’s multiple Group One-winning graduate Ceolwulf. “The favourite for many reasons is the colt out of Las Brisas, he’s the one the Guerin Report has been following,” Calder said. “When he was born, Ceolwulf wasn’t a stakes winner and he’s now won four Group Ones and Sword Of State is on everyone’s radar. “He has the pedigree and is a really nice colt, we think he’s one who will really stand out. “Ceolwulf was a really nice athletic horse and a Tavistock that looked like he would be a staying three-year-old, whereas this colt has a more precocious look and an early maturing, faster type.” View the full article
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