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Yea works for Tony Herlihy. Think only been driving for a few weeks. -
well Leap to fame looked back to his best again tonight.Unlike his recent 3 runs,he looked full of beans and ready to go the whole race and when asked won with a leg in the air with a 26.1 last 1/4. you could tell he was going to do that the way he was travelling on the bit this time. Things can change in a week can't they. It looks back to ...they cant beat leap to fame again... Should never have doubted him i suppose. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Sha Tin hosts another cracking day of action this Sunday, with the Group Two Premier Bowl (1,200m) the highlight of the meeting. There are 10 races on the card and Owen Goulding is in the hot seat to provide an extended rundown of his selections. Race 1 – Class Five Panasonic Air-Conditioner Handicap (1,800m) Yiu Cheung Victory finally has a good draw to work from and, dropping in grade with Zac Purton aboard, he can take advantage of the step up to 1,800m. Race 2 – Class Four Panasonic TV...View the full article -
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By Michael Guerin Jason Teaz is aiming to end the harness racing season way better than he started it. Actually, the start wasn’t the problem for the Waikato trainer. It was the couple of months after the start that flattened him. Teaz is best known as a commentator but is making quite the name for himself as a trainer, with 15 horses in work and well on the way to his best season ever with Stone Cold bringing up win 13 for the term at Alexandra Park on Friday night. But there is a lot more to that number than you might think. “Back at one of the first meetings of the season at Otaki I trained a double so things couldn’t have started better,” says Teaz. “Two days later those same two horses ran last and so did almost every other horse I lined up for two months. “The whole team got a bug through it and around about the same time I had changed my feed and that didn’t work and everything went to the pack. “I reckon people were thinking, what is going on with him, but I just had to weather the storm.” Teaz has trained 10 or 11 winners in his last 50 starts though and is getting good results, sometimes with other people’s castoffs. “I am really proud of how it is going and I suppose with 15 horses I am no longer considered a small trainer. “But Alexandra Park wins are still hard to come by so to get one with this guy is great and he is far from finished.” Teaz bought Stone Cold as a yearling because he had another handy trotter by sire Wishing Stone and his owners are spread far and wide. “My mother Helen is in him as are Allan and Mark Bradley. Allan is a West Coast farmer who had a really good horse called Besta Kara a fair while ago. “And we have Art Shirley from down south, our Clerk of the Course up here in Ron Weller, former HRNZ chair John Coulam and of course Nicole.” Nicole as in Sims, the trackside presenter who used to work with Teaz and took a share in the diminutive trotter soon after he bought him and had now had the thrill of being at Alexandra Park on a Friday night when Stone Cold made it career win number two. “We have a great bunch of owners and he is doing a wonderful job for them,” says Teaz. “He has already won about $35,000, after only costing I think $5000 at the sales, and he is still only getting to full maturity now.” Teaz says he is eyeing the Harness 5000 series at Ashburton in December as the Four-Year-Old Trot division doesn’t appear to have an overly strong field at the moment for a $60,000 race. “We will keep monitoring how the field is coming together but that is the dream goal,” says Teaz. “I think he is eligible now and with some of his owners living down south I am sure they’d love it.” Matthew White had looked the horseman to follow at The Park on Friday and so it proved to be as he trained two winners in Mediator and Lord Popinjay (for Monika Ranger) and drove another in Tight Lines for Brian and Gareth Hughes. Opa’s Girl was very good in a strong juvenile race for trainer Arna Donnelly two hours before he older brother Double Parked won his Metro Pacing Heat. The latter was the first leg of a training and driving double for Tony Herlihy with the super impressive Youneverknow. View the full article -
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By Michael Guerin Winning stablemates rarely come from backgrounds as different as the double Phil Williamson trained at Addington early on Friday night. Because juvenile winner Becky’s Girl has been with Williamson since the day she was born while the Oamaru trainer still laughs about the fact he now trains former Aussie pacer He Aint Fakin, who also won as a trotter on Friday night. Williamson and wife Bev, who owns Becky’s Girl, started the meeting on a high as the two-year-old filly led throughout to win the $45,000 Macca Lodge Sires’ Stakes Classique in the hands of their son Brad. The daughter of Majestic Son and the former Williamson-trained Alderbeck, made it two wins from three starts and while aided by the favourite Petite Armour galloping at the start, Becky’s Girl still trotted a 2:0.1 mile rate for the 1980m and her last 800m in 57.9 seconds so it would have taken a really good performance to beat her. “She is a natural trotter and will be up for any of the two-year-old races she is eligible for,” says Williamsom. “We had her dam Alderbeck who was a really good mare. She finished fifth in both a Dominion and Rowe Cup and was unlucky in both. “So we bred this filly and have had her all the way along.” It was the third straight year Williamson has trained the winner of the Group 3 race and he says breeding is a huge help when it comes to training young trotting winners. “Breeding really helps and then it up to the trainer to give them every chance to be a good horse, which we hope we do.” While Becky’s Girl is a home-bred the Williamson maiden trot winner He Aint Fakin couldn’t be further from it, being a former high class Australian pacer that Phil hadn’t laid eyes on until two months ago. “Chris Frisby was training him as a pacer in Bathurst and he was a good one too, I think he paced around 1:51 as a young horse,” explains Williamson. “I had met Chris when had a horse racing in Auckland and he was staying with Tony Herlihy like we do. “He rang me out of the blue a couple of months ago and said after some issues they were trotting this horse and he thought he went okay. “In Australia if a horse changes gaits they stay in the same class whereas here they drop back to maidens. “So he was keen to send him here but wanted to trial him first to see whether it was worthwhile. “He trialled him against the pacers and he trotted a mile in 1:57 and I told him to get him over here. “He is a lovely horse and if he stays sound he will do a really good job over here. “They are really excited by it and we are excited to have him.” While Williamson and family made the early running on Friday night the star later in the programme was John Dunn who drove a late double on Confessional and It’s Tough, the latter continuing his great spring in the race of the night. View the full article
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