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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
After his second win in Sunday’s Hannon Memorial, Akuta has climbed up three places in the latest IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup/ Renwick Farms Dominion Trot rankings. Both races, limited to 15 starters, will held at Addington Raceway on Tuesday, November 11. The Mark and Nathan Purdon-trained Akuta, who also won the 2022 Hannon, was 10th in the rankings before the weekend. He is now seventh. It was his second win this campaign after a long lay-off with a tendon injury. Dalton Shard and Renegade who finished second and fourth in the Group 3 feature have also improved this week. Dalton Shard goes from 20th to 15th while Renegade is now 21st, up three spots. Swayzee, Republican Party, Leap To Fame, Mo’unga and Alta Meteor have already sealed their places in the field. The next automatic qualifier for the $1m Group 1 feature is the Holmes DG at Alexandra Park on October 3, followed by the Canterbury Classic at Addington (October 17) while for the Dominion it is the Worthy Queen (October 10) and then the Canterbury Park Trotting Cup (October 17), both at Addington Raceway. Already qualified for the Dominion are Bet N Win, Arcee Phoenix and Oscar Bonavena. In the latest rankings for the Dominion there are no major moves though Hidden Talent does move one place to inside the top 15, after her third in the Group 3 Jasmyn’s Gift Fillies and Mares Stakes at Oamaru on Sunday. The winner of that race I Dream Of Jeannie improves three to 17 for Team Dunn while northern trotter Belle Neige has gone from 28th to 25th on the back of her third successive win at Alexandra Park on Friday night. Rankings will be updated weekly with the final rankings coming out after the Kaikoura meeting on Monday, November 3. View them here View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Few trainers could match Paul Nelson’s record in the Great Northern Hurdle, a reputation he hopes to transfer into the renamed J Swap Great New Zealand Hurdle (4200m), with three contenders in the Te Aroha feature on Friday. The Hastings conditioner won his first Northern back in 2002 with Chibuli and followed the early success with back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007 with Just Not Cricket. Corrina McDougal joined Nelson in partnership in 2019, and the pair doubled that tally over the next four years, with The Cossack (2020 and 2021) and Nedwin (2024). Representing the stable in this year’s revamped Great New Zealand contest will be Suliman, Taika and The Bambino, who have taken different paths to their final jumping assignment of the season. 12-year-old veteran Suliman has found sterling form in the latter part of the year, winning a competitive Grand National Hurdle (4200m) before winding up late to finish third in the Pakuranga Hunt Hurdle (3100m) at the end of last month, a run that impressed his co-trainer. “He was very good in the Pakuranga, considering it was a bit shorter,” Nelson said. “Hopefully for him, the track will be wet and loose again on Friday. “He was a bit slow to start with (this year), but once he’s found his form, he’s gone very well.” The third placegetter in last year’s Northern, Taika, opened his 2025 account on a winning note in May, but has mixed his form at times since then, with the testing ground not to his liking in the Pakuranga. Nelson and McDougal opted to back him up at Woodville in the following weekend and were satisfied with a fourth-placed effort. “I don’t think he enjoyed his run at Pakuranga in the really wet, loose mud, he was covered in it,” Nelson said. “I think if he races handier, he can probably stay away from it a bit more.” The Bambino brings the least amount of experience into the race, but he certainly makes up for that in talent, winning his last two hurdle races and sealing a trip north for his prestige debut. “Ben (Foote), his part-owner, was very keen for him to run in this race, but he had to prove he was up to it,” Nelson said. “I think he’s really done that in his last couple of races. “He’s a funny little horse, he’s not the easiest to work and we try to keep him as quiet and settled as we can. But, when he gets to the races, he settles very well and doesn’t fight the rider. “I think that he’ll be able to do that on Friday, relax and see out the 4200m.” Foote and his son Ryan, who train in Cambridge, are sponsors of the other headlining event of the carnival, the Ben and Ryan Foote Great New Zealand Steeplechase (6200m), where Nedwin will be vying for top honours. The son of Niagara switched between hurdling and steeplechasing in the early part of the season, but now focusing on the bigger fences, he placed third in the Grand National Steeplechase (5600m) before taking out the key lead-up to Sunday’s event, the Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4300m). Nelson was pleased with how his charge came through the feature but is mindful of the test he faces as a relatively inexperienced chaser. “I’m very happy with his work, he seemed to have come through the Pakuranga race really well and had a nice few days off in a grass paddock, which always helps them,” he said. “We’ll have to see how he goes, he’s still a young steeplechaser but he’s going well. “He doesn’t mind (track conditions), he handles bad ground and if it was a little bit better, it doesn’t worry him. He retains a bit of ability on the flat as well.” View the full article
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