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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Fall For Cindy added valuable black-type to her record when winning the Group 3 Dark Jewel Classic at Scone on Saturday. Photo: bradleyphotographers.com.au In-form mare Fall For Cindy carried the Waikato Stud colours to a valuable first black-type victory in Saturday’s A$250,000 Group 3 Dark Jewel Classic (1400m) at Scone. Bred and raced by Garry Chittick, whose milestone 80th birthday was celebrated with a race named in his honour at Trentham on Saturday, Fall For Cindy went into Saturday’s fillies and mares’ feature with an admirably consistent form line this season. Her seven starts as a four-year-old had produced two wins, two seconds, two thirds and a fourth. She was a dead-heat winner of a Benchmark 88 handicap over 1400m at Hawkesbury in her previous start on May 4. That series of strong performances earned her a shot at stakes company on Saturday, and she rose to the occasion in style. A slow start saw Fall For Cindy settle further back in the running than planned, but she launched an irresistible finish in the straight for apprentice jockey Zac Lloyd and scored by more than a length. “The first half of the race did not go to plan whatsoever,” Lloyd said. “I was hoping to be a bit closer in the run and stay off the fence. In the end, all I could focus on was getting her to relax where she was. I just had to trust her. “She obviously put in a good performance last start, and she quickened really well today.” From 15 starts, the John O’Shea-trained Fall For Cindy has recorded five wins and five placings, banking A$370,600 in stakes. Her value has now risen far higher than that. “It’s one of Garry Chittick’s mares, and I’d say her value has doubled just then,” O’Shea stable representative Tom Charlton said. “She has progressed so well over the past season. She’s a mare that is happy, racing well and very content. “She handles those soft conditions well and I think she is only just finding her straps now.” Fall For Cindy is by Waikato Stud’s homebred former stallion Sacred Falls, who has sired 169 winners from 278 runners including 10 individual stakes winners. The dam of Fall For Cindy is the unraced Savabeel mare Cindy Cee, who is a three-quarter-sister to the stakes performer Save The Date and a half-sister to the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Sports Illustrated. Further down the pedigree page, the stakes-placed second dam Pin Up is a half-sister to champion racehorse and successful sire Starcraft. Cindy Cee is the dam of three named foals and all three have been winners. Her first foal Willinga Freefall is a five-year-old and has won four races across New South Wales and Queensland. Fall For Cindy was Cindy Cee’s second foal in 2019, followed a year later by the winning Tivaci filly Cintivee. Cindy Cee’s subsequent foals are a two-year-old colt by Ocean Park, a yearling filly by Tivaci and a weanling colt by Ardrossan. Fall For Cindy completed a New Zealand-bred treble on Saturday’s Scone card. The A$160,000 Muswellbrook Ford Benchmark 78 Handicap (1700m) was won by Unusual Legacy, who has now recorded four wins and a second from just a six-start career. The four-year-old gelding is trained by Chris Waller. Unusual Legacy was bred by Letham Stud and is a son of their successful sire Unusual Suspect. The dam is the winning O’Reilly mare Celtic Legacy, who has been credited with four winners from six foals to race. Just over half an hour after Unusual Legacy’s win, Elson Boy followed suit in the A$160,000 Benchmark 72 Handicap (1300m). It was the eighth win of a 21-start career for the Dar Lunn-trained four-year-old, and it continued a rich vein of form with his fifth victory in a row. He has now earned A$260,875 in prize-money. With seven wins in his four-year-old season, Elson Boy has scored the equal highest number of victories in Australia in 2023-24. “I was disappointed when the horse got hurt before the Country Championships,” Lunn said. “It took me a while to get him back but he’s going well now. He’s tough – like his trainer!” Horse racing news View the full article -
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Navy King heads Saban on his way to winning the Sir Henry Bolte Hcp at Flemington. Photo Bruno Cannatelli A two-time winner over sprint distances earlier in the year, New Zealand-bred Navy King suggested he might be better suited to a different role when he scored a big win in Saturday’s A$150,000 Sir Henry Bolte Handicap (2000m) at Flemington. The three-year-old won over 1000m in January and 1200m in February, then had mixed results over 1200m, 1400m and 1600m in his following four starts. He stepped up to 2000m at Caulfield on May 4 and finished a close fourth, and his second attempt at the distance on Saturday saw him go up to a whole new level. Navy King jumped from the inside gate, and jockey Daniel Stackhouse sent him forward in the first 100m to hold his position as others moved across from wider barriers. He eventually settled in third, then angled away from the rail just before the turn and pounced on the leader. There was only ever going to be one winner from there as Navy King changed gears and bounded away, opening up a big lead down the Flemington straight. Saban produced a strong finish out of the pack to eat into that advantage, but Navy King was never in any danger of defeat and scored by a length and a half. The third placegetter finished another seven lengths behind Saban. “It worked out okay from that inside gate today,” Stackhouse said. “He’s been a bit of a work in progress. I thought he ran a super race at Caulfield the other day – I was probably just a bit too patient and then he got held up at the wrong time. “He’s a nice, sharp horse with good stamina. I wanted to let him go a bit further out today and he was happy to do that. “I think he’s got a lot of ability. He’s just doing a few things wrong, but he switched off and relaxed a bit better with a change of bit today. If the improvement that he showed in this race today continues, I think he can develop into a really nice stayer.” Horse racing news View the full article -
Excellent and accurate posting Galah. The popularity of punters still punting on NZ harness is indeed dropping hugely and NZ harness Clubs should be very worried! There are several reasons for this which I nave mentioned numerous times! I was looking at turnover on meetings at Addington during the week. There were pools on the tote of under $2k when I was looking shortly before the start of races. They arent showing this on Trackside as the turnover on the tote is now absolutely pathetic and this is at Addington the best track in NZ! Time that Tab/Entain actually start listening to their long time customers and allow them to participate more freely or yes things are going to continue to decline!!!!!! They are losing their most loyal clientele and that is not how any business can continue but then again Entain wasnt after harness racing, they were after the Sports betting in NZ for 25 long years. -
to which you replied . And in that reply you replied referencing my comment about the last 3 years. see below. . then i replied. So,the start of your last reply is a bit bemusing.. but anyway, i know you love the all stars. i acknowledge their undeniable abilities as well, i have great repect for them in many ways,but given my views,don't put them on the pedestal you do. -
there is a lot of difffrent components to the puzzle of turnover and youv'e mantioned a couple.that effect nz punters. Somehow i think the number of nz punters betting on the trots is dropping. But the thing is,i can't help but think the viability of the nz harness industry is linked to how much australian punter participation they can get. How else do you explain the turnovers .. There has to be a link between the high turnover races with tabcorp nsw for nz harness, corresponding with the high turnover races on the nz/entain totes.Often they are low class races and often small fields. Manawatu have proved that. it has to be because the australian punters betting into the pools with entain australia that then get commingled with us,are seeing the same sky racing coverage as the tabcorp nsw punters who are betting into their own pools.. After all,we still are getting similar lead in exposure on our trackside channels for nz,yet the pools vary so greatly. australian punters do bet on nz harness,the figures show that,not huge but still very significant to the nz industry. But they do not bet without proper sky racing channel exposure. My theory is there is no transperancy from people at entain and hrnz around this issue,Its a deliberate policy to keep everyone in the dark. And the reason for that is they must have known that when they partnered with entain they were signing away the bargaining rites to ensure adequate coverage and times sllots for nz harness racing that they could have ensured had they gone with tabcorp nsw, as the nz tab's partner. I think theres been a major miscaluation by those in charge of nz racing,especially harness, as to the scale of the impact sky racing coverage,or lack therof,has on profitabilty . i think its a scandel myself that no one ever explains to the hard working committee men who look at their clubs turnovers and say to themselves,well that wasn't too good,or how come that race got such good turnover and that one didn't. keeping everyone in the dark because you don't want light shone on a subject of such importance because all the light would do is show what poor decision making has been made. You can't blame entain. I'm sure that fella dean shannon really does want to help nz harness. But lets not have people believe the bullshit. Entain is a huge global business interested in profit and nz harness is not the priority that for some reason,people in charge are trying to sell. There must be someone at hrnz who has the information of what races are getting lead in time on sky racing and what races are getting next to no coverage. And they must have the data on how it impacts turnovers. But we never hear about it do we,so they have to be covering it up for a reason. people/clubs,whoever should start demanding to know the effects of the time slotsand sky coverage nz harness is being given.
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