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Be Your Best leads a trio of stakes starters for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. Aug. 9 at Colonial Downs.View the full article -
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Jockey Katie Davis has promised not to just make up the numbers in the Aug. 9 Shergar Cup and will be calling upon a certain Frankie Dettori for last-minute instructions before her Ascot debut.View the full article -
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Baoma Corp's Himika, the talk of the town following an impressive debut score, has the chance to back up that performance when she tries stakes company for the first time in the Aug. 10 $150,000 Sorrento Stakes (G3) at Del Mar.View the full article -
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By Michael Guerin Happy but not surprised was how co-trainer Amanda Telfer sums up one of the best training performances of her career. Because when Alta Meteor stomped past some very good horses on a soaked Addington home straight on Friday night, he was only showing Telfer what her team had been seeing at home. Telfer runs the southern barn of what is unofficially our premiership winning stable and their golden winter was probably capped by the win in the NZI Insurance National Handicap Pace. Alta Meteor hadn’t raced since last year’s New Zealand Cup and not many pacers win off 30m anywhere in harness racing these days, let alone in their comeback race against fellow Cups horses. But that is exactly what Alta Meteor did, blasting past leader American Me, with trailer Franco Marek getting up the passing lane to get closest in second. There was plenty to like about how fellow backmarker Mo’unga found the line up the inside back in sixth but make no mistake, this was a statement performance from Alta Meteor. So why wasn’t Telfer, the sister of her training partner Steve, surprised? “He had been working well and he is a good horse,” she explains. “He has been good in his two trials so we knew he was quite ready.” Alta Meteor will now return to Addington for the Maurice Holmes Vase on August 22 which has an automatic ticket into the IRT New Zealand Cup, which Telfer admits is a mountain to climb. “If Leap To Fame and Swayzee come over we know how hard it is going to be but we’d rather be in the race and qualified than having to worry about getting in.” Earlier in the night the stable produced another smart two-year-old in B B King, who was super impressive coming from last to win on debut. “He has always shown us something but we put him aside after his first trials because he is so big. “The aim is the Sires’ Stakes for him but that is going to mean a bit of juggling as we have a few being aimed at that. “So at this stage we will keep racing them and give them experience.” And one of the highlights of the South Island junior driver’s season went, again, to Sam Thornley, when he led throughout on Royal Gypsy to win the Darren DeFilippi Memorial Trot. Thornley got the sectionals inch-perfect and Royal Gypsy did the best for owner-trainer-breeder Fred Fletcher and his wife Fay. View the full article -
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By Michael Guerin It wasn’t perfect but it was the next best thing. Because while Akuta may not have won his comeback race at Alexandra Park on Friday he came out of the race with a big tick and trainers Mark and Nathan Purdon still came away with the win. That was courtesy of Treacherous Baby, the stablemate of the hot favourite in the $20,000 World’s Best Hoof Oil Pace, the 1700m centrepiece of the Alex Park meeting. Akuta was fresh up to the races after 20 months and what once seemed a career-ending injury and he peaked on his run in the last 100m to go down fighting in third. Co-trainer and part-owner Mark Purdon was more than satisfied and had the bonus of watching Treacherous Baby peel off Akuta’s back to slingshot past leader You Little Beauty. “She has been racing really well and was obviously a lot fitter than Akuta,” says Purdon. “He had a really good blow after and blew up over his back. “At this stage he will come back here in two weeks for a similar race then head south.” Treacherous Baby will join Akuta in Canterbury as she is being set for the new series of mares races in the region, which are already looking a winner with the depth of talent they are attracting. Earlier in the night the father-and-son stable also produced juvenile Georgie Best to win on debut even if things didn’t go to plan for him early. He was forced to go back to near last but got the one-one a lap from home and sprinted like a good colt to down the talented Captain Moonlight. “He is a nice horse, still with plenty to learn but a nice motor,” says Purdon. The stable will have at least six horses in Canterbury from early next month, with Akuta and Treacherous Baby to be joined by Oscar Bonavena, juvenile Andretti and Chase A Dream. Later in the night there was a huge thank you wave of the whip from Taitlyn Hanara when she won the main trot on Castana. The emotion was because it was the 200th New Zealand training success for trainers Dave and Clare McGowan, Hanara’s long-time employers and biggest supporters. View the full article
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