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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Thoroughbred Park is considered the home of Canberra racing and has been the major racecourse in the ACT since its’ inception in 1921. Following a two-stage renovation for both turf and synthetic racing in 2007, Thoroughbred Park is utilized regularly throughout the calendar year, with approximately 25 meetings scheduled between both circuits. While upgrading the tracks for better racing, the Canberra racecourse facilities also received a significant overhaul, with the Training Centre and Equine Welfare amenities among the upgrades. Canberra is the home of many feature races on the calendar, however, none more important than the Group 3 Black Opal Stakes (1200m) for the two-year-olds on the second Sunday of March every year. It’s considered one of the final options for trainers to gain their respective runners’ entry for the Group 1 Golden Slipper (1200m) later in the Autumn, not to mention boasting a significant prize of $275,000 for the winning connections. Located 15 minutes from the city centre, Thoroughbred Park is a terrific spot for functions both business and pleasure, with a designated Functions Department ready to offer you everything you need for any given event – including both indoor and outdoor settings with versatile spaces. Canberra horse racing news With 25 meetings scheduled at Canberra rack track throughout the year, the team at HorseBetting.com.au will try to keep our loyal readers up to date on all the latest racing news from Thoroughbred Park and the surrounding areas. Here is the latest Canberra racing news: Canberra horse racing tips Our expert tipsters will be doing their best to find you all the best bets, value bets and quaddie numbers at Canberra races – especially during the Canberra Cup Carnival at the beginning of March, with plenty of action taking place during the Autumn. Check out all the latest Canberra racing tips here: Canberra racecourse address & how to travel there Thoroughbred Park Racecourse is located at 1 Randwick Rd, Lyneham ACT 2602 and is approximately 280km from the Sydney CBD (or 15 minutes from the Canberra CBD). Located to the south-west of Sydney, Canberra Racecourse draws in plenty of in-person interest from both locals and Sydneysiders, especially during the major carnivals during the Autumn months. It’s approximately a three hour and eight minute drive from the Syndey CBD heading south-west along the Federal Highway/Remembrance Drive. Simple follow the signs exiting onto Flemington Rd before making your way to your destination on Randwick Rd. If you’d rather leave your vehicle at home, there are plenty of public transport options in Canberra, including trains and buses. The scenario is simpler for locals, with taxis, uber and buses set to take you directly to your required destination, or if you’d prefer, drive yourself to the course, with plenty parking available at the entrance of the track. Canberra race track dimensioins and starting points The Thoroughbred Park Racecourse is run in the clockwise direction, with a circumference of 1815m and a home straight of 400m, with it considered one of the fairest tracks in the region. The main Canberra track has many starting positions from the chute – including the 1000m (north-east side), 1200m (north side) and 1600m (west side). Meanwhile, the remaining starting positions usually disengage from the course proper. The inner-course or synthetic circuit has no chute positions with every race run in the clockwise direction. Major races held at Canberra racecourse Black Opal Stakes Day is considered the biggest day of the calendar at Canberra, with four massive Listed races scheduled. 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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Fourty Eight winning at Hawera on Sunday. Photo: Peter Rubery (Race Images Palmerston North) Shaun Fannin’s priorities will change this winter with his primary focus on the Awapuni stable he runs with Hazel Schofer. Fannin has multiple jumps jockeys’ premierships to his credit but will restrict his riding, with one notable outside exception. “We’re getting pretty busy with the training and plenty of horses around us,” he said. “We’ve got about 20 on the books and training is our main business, so that’s definitely to the forefront of my mind. “I will ride my own ones and West Coast obviously.” Fannin and the Mark Oulaghan-trained West Coast have been a potent combination with two Grand National Steeplechases (5600m) to their credit. They have also combined to triumph in the Great Northern Steeplechase (6500m), Wellington Steeplechase (5500m) and Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase (4800m). “He’s had a couple of flat runs and is coming up well and is heading to Woodville on Sunday for the Manawatu Steeplechase (4000m), so I’m looking forward to that,” Fannin said. Fannin is in good form after partnering stable representative Fourty Eight to a debut victory in the Holdem Contracting Legend Hawera Riders’ Hurdle (2800m) at Sunday’s Egmont meeting. “He won it well and he’s showed a fair bit at home and he’s got good flat ability,” he said. “He’s still a green jumper, he doesn’t jump as fluently yet as some of the open hurdlers and he will improve a lot with the experience. “He will be a much-improved jumper the next time you see him out.” That won’t be until next season with Fannin firstly eyeing off a flat target with the son of Ekraar. “He doesn’t handle the really heavy tracks and we might give him a break now until later in the season,” he said. “He goes quite well on the synthetic tracks and there’s a good money race ($100,000) at Cambridge in August, so we might look at that and then hurdling in September with him.” Fourty Eight has been patiently handled with the five-year-old posting his three flat wins from just 12 starts on the polytrack at Awapuni. “He didn’t get broken in until he was a three-year-old and physically and mentally he’s been quite a weak horse,” he said. “He got broken in up in the hills in Wairoa where his breeder and main owner lives, who is my cousin (Sheena Martin). We haven’t rushed him, he’s taken a bit of time.” The top-rated horse in Fannin’s team is last-start Waverley winner Sailor Jack, whose longer-term future lies over the jumps. “He’s out having a spell, he’s had quite a long preparation. He’ll probably run on the flat in the late spring and summer,” he said. “If he’s in good form we might look to get him over to Australia early next year for the jumping over there, he likes good tracks.” Horse racing news View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Auld Jock (left) jumps the final fence in unison with Run Jakko Run at Hawera on Sunday. Photo: Peter Rubery (Race Images Palmerston North) With a season of experience under his belt, Auld Jock returned to the hurdles in winning fashion at Hawera on Sunday for Peter and Jessica Brosnan. The six-year-old made four appearances over jumps last year, with his best result a second-placed effort behind former Group 3 New Zealand Cup (3200m) winner Mondorani over the steeplechase fences at Rotorua in August. Auld Jock headed to Hawera a fit horse with trio of flat runs under his belt and was an underrated $19.30 chance in the “Garry Phillips” Maiden Hurdle (2800m), with Run Jakko Run the top-elect at $2.30. In the hands of Portia Matthews, Auld Jock settled midfield early and remained there for majority of the 2800m contest as Home Rule controlled the tempo from the front. As the pressure came on at the 800m, Run Jakko Run became prominent and looked to be pulling away turning for home, but Auld Jock found another kick and came out on top by a short head in a driving finish. The son of Adelaide is owned by the Brosnan’s, who were especially pleased with his effort after returning to their Matamata base late on Sunday. “We got home pretty late last night so we’ve just watched the replay now at lunchtime, and it was good, he didn’t get the easiest of runs so he had to be a bit tough,” Jessica Brosnan said. “He’s a little bit older and matured a bit this year, I can’t really say he’s any bigger in size because he’s a little mouse of a horse. “He’d had three runs on the flat so he was pretty fit for yesterday going into it, but he was actually just having a bit of a run around before he goes steeplechasing. “He’ll go between the two with hurdling and chasing like he did last year, we like our horses to be multi-functional as in this day in age we’ve only got a couple of tracks with live jumps, so they’ve got to be able to jump the put-up fences, just possibly with an extra lap.” Brosnan has earmarked the Maiden Steeplechase over 3500m at Te Aroha on June 3 for Auld Jock, while stablemate Jakama Krystal may return to the Central Districts on Sunday to contest the Awapuni Hurdles (3000m) at Woodville. The Jakkalberry mare continued to improve through her second jumping season with two victories and a minor placing last year, and kicked off her new campaign finishing 3.25 lengths off Verry Flash in the Norwood Hawera ‘Jim Walker’ Hurdles (2800m) on Sunday. “She was good, we were pretty rapt with her race. She didn’t have too hard of a run, so that was good going forward for the winter,” Brosnan said. “She’s a tough little horse, but just needs a bit of rain, so we’ll see what the weather does and she’ll either step out on Sunday in the Awapuni Hurdles, or we’ll wait for another day. “She’s got a good race in her somewhere.” The Brosnans intend to follow the jumps circuit with a number of their team this season, with one of their recently-trialled horses Rocem stepping out in the Riverrock Farm – Chad Ormsby (1750m) at Taupo on Wednesday. “We have about 12 horses in work in the winter, and there’s probably eight stepping out over the jumps through the season. We’ve got to support the jumping and keep the numbers up,” she said. Horse racing news View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Gerard Cvitanovich pictured with Knock Off and jockey Lisa Allpress following their win at Hawera on Sunday. Photo: Peter Rubery (Race Images) Knock Off broke a two-decade winless drought for his trainer Gerard Cvitanovich when he went to Hawera on Sunday to score in the “Kelly & Rosie Myers” 1400. The semi-retired dairy farmer had just 50 prior starts to his name for seven wins, and he was delighted to add to that tally on the weekend with a horse bred by his son. “We just wanted to give him the run, I was quite surprised he went as well on that track. It was a great ride from Lisa Allpress,” Cvitanovich said. “My son, Nick, bred the horse and he seems to enjoy that side of things.” Cvitanovich grew up with horses on his family farm and has always had a passion for them, but it wasn’t until his mid-thirties that the 65-year-old horseman took out his trainer’s license. “We did pony club and worked horses on the farm when we were young fellas. There is a lot of racing in the area we live,” he said. “My father had racehorses and so did my grandparents, so I have drifted that way. Kevin Myers has helped us out a lot and so have a lot of other Wanganui trainers. “I just like riding and working horses.” Cvitanovich won six races in his first three seasons of training, and over the following two decades he has generally only had one start per season, and he was glad to gain his first win on Sunday since the 2002/03 season. “I have had a few slow ones in the meantime,” he quipped. “We don’t really race many. We milk cows and Nick has taken over the cows now and I have gone back to doing the horses now that I have a bit more time. “I just have the one in work, but we also have another unraced Keano horse with Jo Rathbone.” Cvitanovich is looking forward to racing Knock Off over winter and he is hoping his next win isn’t too far away. “I think he would be more suited to winter racing,” he said. “He will have a week off and then we will go quietly with him, he is a big, weak horse and we will need to nurse him through it.” Horse racing news View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Barbara Kennedy is looking forward to kicking off her training career in New Zealand next month. Photo: Trish Dunell Warren Kennedy has made waves in the New Zealand jockey ranks since moving from his native South Africa, and now his wife, Barbara, is hoping to do the same as a trainer. The 32-year-old horsewoman has spent her life in racing and trained in South Africa for a few seasons before moving to New Zealand with her husband and children a couple of years ago. “I have been in the industry my whole life,” Kennedy said. “My Dad was a jockey for 24 years. When he retired, he became the course manager at one of the tracks in South Africa for 21 years. My sister went to the jockey academy and was an apprentice for a couple of years, but it didn’t work out for her. Our whole family is into racing, so I was born into it, it is in my blood.” Upon leaving school, Kennedy went to work in a racing stable and that is where she got hooked on the sport and decided she wanted a career in the industry. “I worked in the yard straight out of school. I had a really great opportunity with a trainer in South Africa where I ran his satellite yard in Durban where we had about 50 horses, and I was with him for four years,” she said. “That is where it hit me that that (training) is what I wanted to do, and I took out my own trainer’s license. I had my first daughter at that time, and I went into a training partnership with my brother, and I trained for three years. We were pretty successful, we had 59 winners in the three years, with one of those being hindered by COVID. “Warren then decided that we needed to get out of the country to give our girls a better life. It was always a goal to get back into it in New Zealand, we just didn’t expect it to happen so soon.” While Warren has been kicking goals in the saddle, Kennedy said she felt a bit lost in the early stages of their move to New Zealand, but found comfort in helping out Byerley Park trainers Peter and Dawn Williams. “It was really tough coming over here because I went from that busy lifestyle of training. Coming over here, Warren kicked off as normal and I sat at home not doing anything and I did get a bit depressed during those times,” she said. “It has been good to see him come here and do so well from the get-go. It is really difficult coming to a new country, but the amount of support that he has been given has been great. “Since we moved to New Zealand, they (Williams’s) had always been very good to Warren, and Warren has ridden a lot for them. They extended to come out to the yard with the girls and I did mornings there mucking out stables and we have become really close with Peter and Dawn, we have adopted them as our family here.” With Peter and Dawn Williams deciding to retire from racing at the end of the month, they approached Kennedy to see if she was interested in taking over their stable, and she has jumped at the opportunity. “We have become really close and we were chatting recently, and with this decision of them retiring, they thought I was young, willing to do it, so let’s give this a shot. “It is exciting. It has happened quite quickly, but we are taking this opportunity with both hands. I am grateful that Peter and Dawn have trusted me enough to hand everything over to me, so we will be forever grateful for that. “I officially start on the 1st of June. For the month of June, they will be around and I can bounce as many questions off of them as possible. “The majority of the clients have agreed to stay on with me, which is really positive. We will be getting in contact with all the clients during the next week or so and get to know everyone and get our career and relationship going.” In her time in New Zealand, Kennedy has noticed a few differences from racing in South Africa and is looking forward to tackling those challenges. “The tracks are the biggest one,” she said. “We are not used to racing over the winter season in such heavy going. That will be a big adjustment for me, getting used to running horses on these different tracks. We don’t travel as much as the horses here, our racecourses are fairly close to each other and there aren’t as many. “I have got Warren behind me, and Peter and Dawn, and I can give them a call whenever I have any questions, they are here to help me.” Kennedy said she is lucky to have family in New Zealand to help make the transition smoother. “We have two girls – Jamie, 5, and Ryleigh, 3,” she said. “We have got Warren’s family over here, so his mum is going to join us for a couple of weeks and help out with the girls.” While having a husband as the country’s leading jockey is a bonus, Kennedy said Warren will continue to have his priorities outside of the stable. “It is a bonus having Warren around, but he has got to keep his ties with Cambridge Stud,” she said. “As much as he will be a part of the yard, he won’t be tied down and he has to fulfil his own obligations to Cambridge. He will help me out as much as he can, but he will be keeping with his Cambridge connections.” In terms of what Kennedy is looking forward to the most with her return to training, the answer is easy – winning. “It is just getting back out there and getting the success with winners,” she said. “Everyone aims to win the big ones and they are definitely on my radar.” Horse racing news View the full article
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