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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Friday Night Lights sees racing at Addington and Auckland tonight as the sport gears up for its biggest week of the year. Ya Rite Darl will start the night’s shortest priced favourite at Addington which will feature five more heats of the World Driving Championship while Arna Donnelly’s team could well be to the fore at Alexandra Park. Ya Rite Darl tuning up for THE ASCENT at Addington By Michael Guerin A late change of plans will see exciting trotting filly Ya Rite Darl head to Addington tonight rather than tomorrow. Which provides punters with the most obvious of multi anchors for the last meeting at the big track before its biggest day. Ya Rite Darl understandably opened $1.20 favourite for tonight’s Horses Perform Better On Betavet Trot, a race she was only thrown in to as an afterthought. “We were actually going to take her to Addington for fast work on Saturday morning instead,” says driver John Dunn. “But when I looked at the noms for this race we thought we might as well start in it. “She is a very good doing filly so it won’t do her any harm.” That means an extra race for Ya Rite Darl before she takes on the biggest race of her career, the $500,000 Ascent at Addington in a week. While she looked smart last season she has been the big improver in this grade this spring and she would only have to seem to trot throughout to win tonight. Team Dunn takes two other young trotting fillies in Petite Armour and Flying Dreams to the opening race tonight and John says the former is the better hope even after her expensive gallop last start. “That was actually my fault, I let her hit her head on the mobile and she galloped so put that down to driver error,” he admits. “I think she will trot this week and she should be fitter than the other filly (Flying Dreams) even though there isn’t much between them.” The stable has Very Majestic in tonight’s Heat 14 of the World Driving Champs with Michael Nimczyk in the sulky and while the field isn’t intimidating Dunn says she is a mare who needs the right run to win. Away from the WDC heats tonight’s other highlights include an even field of two-year-olds in Race 9 and a red hot debutante in the last race in the well-bred Transonic. Donnelly takes good chances to Alexandra Park By Michael Guerin Arna Donnelly looks set to lead what should be a good night for Waikato stables at Alexandra Park tonight. Donnelly’s New Zealand Cup dreams may be over for this year but the majority of her team are racing well and several find themselves in the right races tonight. She starts the night with the very promising filly Opa’s Girl taking on a mixture of fellow juveniles and older horses over 2200m but the way she boomed home from well back to win over 1700m last start she can win again. Donnelly has two juveniles in Race 3 including debutante Nazare who has won his last three workouts and looks perfectly drawn at barrier two in the five-horse field. His sectionals have suggested he can step straight into race night company without needing to improve much and he was opened just a $1.80 favourite, with the Cambridge trainer’s other rep Ultimate Lad a $31 chance. For a small field though there are a few moving parts to this one, with all three of their rivals having shown enough to upset the odds-on favourite without surprising. Donnelly has the much-improved Final Change in a very even Race 5 but while the three-year-old raced below his best last start his earlier form was very strong in tougher races than what he finds himself in tonight. While $2.80 favourite Words will be hard to catch if she leads any pressure would bring Final Change into the race late. Donnelly rounds out her night with the free-going Dragonstone in the main trot and while off 10m over 2200m if she steps as quickly as she can she could still have a shot at leading and being hard to catch. He will be driven by David Butcher who not only had winning chances with Hooray Henry and You Little Beauty in tonight’s main pace but also a strong book of drives. Butcher pilots talented little trotting mare Miss Bebe who returns in Race 4 and while she should improve with tonight’s race having only had one workout to prepare, she will be a winner before long. Her trainer Rodney Frampton lines up a very promising filly in Soul Artist in the last race on the card. The well-bred daughter of Art Major has won three of her four public outing and the only time she has been beaten was by a subsequent multiple race winner in Tytate back in March. So between Donnelly, Butcher, Frampton and a few others the Waikato looks set to be in for a good night north of the Bombays. View the full article -
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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Blair Orange is very much the driver to watch as the World Driving Championship heads to Addington for the first time tonight. The New Zealand rep is currently in fourth place in the WDC at the halfway stage after having a win and two placings at Cambridge on Wednesday night. He is on 68 points, with Canada’s James MacDonald leading the way on 98. He is also on 2999 career wins, needing just one more to become the fourth member of the 3000 club, joining Tony Herlihy, Maurice McKendry and Ricky May. On Friday Orange looks to have plenty of chances. In the four WDC heats he has three three highly-favoured runners. His drives in WDC heats 11-14 are : Always A Menace ($2.40) in Heat 11 (6.21pm) Switch On ($10) in Heat 12 (6.53pm) Major Torque ($1.75) Heat 13 (7.24pm) Sandfly Bay ($2.80) Heat 14 (7.54pm) At one stage Orange was paying $15 to win the WDC – he is now into $3.20. The Dutch connection at Addington tonight There’ll be dual Dutch delight if the very Irish-sounding Just Ask Paddy can win at Addington tonight. The Gold Ace gelding lines up in Heat 13 of the World Driving Championship (7.24pm). Representing the Netherlands in the WDC Jaap van Rijn will drive the $9 fourth favourite in the Stevie and Maree Harcourts Hornby WDC heat – not that the Dutch connection ends there. Just Ask Paddy was bred by retired Marlborough-based vet David Sim and is raced by him and his Dutch wife Anke. “We’ve been married 48 years,” says Dr Sim, “and that is the first horse she’s been in – the first one she’s had a share in.” And it’s been a pretty successful partnership so far. Just Ask Paddy has won three races from 27 starts, the latest of them at Addington on October 1 in an amateur drivers’ race. “He’s certainly exceeded expectations,” says Sim. Sim is a stablehand for Just Ask Paddy’s trainer Tony Thomas and does a lot of work with his horse. “He’s having a ball with that horse,” says Thomas. “And it’s great how that Dutch connection has come about – it’s just the luck of the draw really.” Van Rijn is seeking his second win this WDC. He was a big winner at Kaikoura when It’s Tough dominated his heat on Monday. WDC Meet and Greet There will also be a Meet and Greet with the WDC drivers at Addington this afternoon, starting a 3.45pm. The drivers will do a signing session and there will also be a parade with the first race going at 4.55pm. WDC Leaderboard (after 10 heats) : James MacDonald (Canada) 98 Gary Hall Junior (Australia) 85 Michael Nimczyk (Germany) 69 Blair Orange (New Zealand) 68 Santtu Raitala (Finland) 62 Mats Djuse (Sweden) 57 Giampaolo Minnucci (Italy) 54 Pierre Vercruysse (France) 51 Jaap van Rijn (Netherlands) 51 Brett Beckwith (USA) 46 View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Drexel Hill, runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), returns to the starting gate for her first race since the Run for the Lillies in the $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes (G2) Nov. 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The respective King's Plate winners from 2023 and 2024, Paramount Prince and Caitlinhergrtness, swing back into action in separate CA$150,000 graded stakes races Nov. 8 at Woodbine.View the full article -
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Haras d'Etreham has announced the fees for its roster of seven Flat stallions, which is led by Hello Youmzain at €25,000, down from €40,000 last year. The line-up is bolstered by the introduction of Lope De Vega's Group 2-winning son Beauvatier, one of four new stallions announced in France to date for 2026, who will stand his first season at €7,000. Classic winners Persian King and Metropolitan are advertised at €15,000 and €12,000 respectively, while City Light, Onesto and Victor Ludorum are all priced at €10,000. “We are proud to present a diverse and complementary group of stallions, combining top-level performance with outstanding pedigrees,” said Etreham's Nicolas de Chambure. “These horses offer breeders exceptional opportunities for their breeding plans in 2026.” The post Beauvatier Joins Etreham Roster at €7,000; Hello Youmzain Now €25,000 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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