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By TAB For Ever · Posted
And for a bonus , some well known Owners US.....includes Kennards [ Lazarus too with TCasey ] ....and Creightons from Otago who have had some good horses with Allstars and now with Dalgety incl Republican Party . The Fixer....includes Kennards and John Magness ...also both in Market Place CB.....[ Aussie owners ] Ashley ....Van Beeks who usually have a useful horse with All Stars Chase A.....owned by big Alabar Stud synd .....I was told before he raced to take a share , but no ! -
By TAB For Ever · Posted
Missing info... Ultimate sniper..Natalie [ A ] The Fixer ...B Orange Cruz B...Mark P Ashley.... John Dunn Chase A.....Tim Williams -
This weeks 2 year old races in nz canned,due to lack of numbers. Only 1, 2 year old is racing in the whole of nz in the coming week. Actually,last weeks race at auckland was interesting. Pre race Ray green was interviewed on trackside and said one of the horses he had entered had bad manners and the only reason he had entered it was because,without it they wouldn't have had the 5 horses needed to run the race.It galloped and took no part. Of course mr green is just being honest,as he was when earlier in the year he said that he was lining up a 2 year old filly,when really it wasn't going good enough to take to the races. 4 months ago ,mathew peden from hrnz said, "we have more and more 2 year olds racing all the time" where have they all gone,or was he just pulling our leg? -
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By Rob Courtney Richard Cornelius is long retired with his feet up in Prebbleton but the wily Cantabrian has been a harness enthusiast for as long as he can remember. His list of winners indicates he has won his share of good races. Gail Devers (Live Or Die – Awesome Dream) won 10 from just 19 starts and Oscar Wild (Albert Albert – For The Boys) won 11 and was placed in an Auckland Cup. Both were trained by David and Catherine Butt when they were winning multiple trainers premierships back in the early 2000s. Cornelius was an avid breeder during this period and obviously liked to name his foals after world famous athletes. Gail Devers was named after a famous American sprinter as an example and around 2012 he had Wilma Rudolph (named after another American Olympic champion) at home as his only weanling. She was by Rocknroll Hanover from Merlene Ottey (you guessed it, another Olympic sprinter) and Cornelius was of a mind to go to the 2013 weanling sale and buy a ‘mate’ for Wilma. Lot 24, a filly by Pegasus Spur from Mybrotherwasastar, from Rob The Nest and therefore a half sister to the very handy Galleon’s Assassin and Thedonsson, both Group 1-winning trotters, cost Cornelius $8000 on the day. That unnamed filly became Wilma’s Mate and nine months later Cornelius took the yearling filly back to the Christchurch yearling sales but disappointingly, didn’t get a bid. The disappointment was short-lived as Wilma went on to win twice as a 2YO and eventually won 14 races (3 in Australia) and $348k in prize money. Keep in mind that after about five of those wins, Cornelius shared a story where trainer Davey Butt was not at all happy with the trotting mare and made the decision to send the mare to master trotting trainer Paul Nairn to ‘sort out’, with the results being quite spectacular. History repeated itself when Cornelius took Wilma’s first foal to the yearling sales in 2022, aptly named Wilma’s Boy. By the well-credentialed but unproven Tactical Landing, Wilma’s Boy did not get a bid on the day! A baffled and despondent Cornelius took the horse home and gave him to Bob Butt to train. It also prompted him to sell off his remaining mares including Wilma’s Mate who had a Love You filly at foot and she is now in the ownership of Graham Beirne of Small Car World. The latter filly is called Love You Wilma. Wilma’s Boy created quite an impression when winning on debut by some 9L at Addington but three subsequent starts didn’t go to plan for the big son of Tactical Landing and he was put aside. Back at the trials in May for Bob Butt, the now 4YO went ‘terrible’ according to his owner and as if to repeat history all over again, his young trainer made the decision to send the horse to Nairn. Boom ! Less than two weeks after that ‘terrible’ trial, Nairn produced the young trotter to win by 5L at Addington (30/5/25) after sitting parked much of the way and then repeated the dose (6/6/25) with another 5L victory, taking his short career record to three wins from six starts. The stories behind ‘the boy’ and his mother are startlingly similar to say the least. No bids at the yearling sales, trained by the Butts, given to Paul Nairn to sort out and with spectacular results. Wilma’s Boy is the only horse Richard Cornelius now has in his ownership and is sharing that ‘ride’ with younger members of his family. The future is exciting, presently. Maybe ‘the boy’ might go on to win 14 races and a whole lot of money for his connections. Richard Cornelius certainly hopes so. View the full article -
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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk After 40 years, Morrinsville-based trainer Leanne Edwards is calling time on her training career. “I still love them (the horses) but it’s time for a change,” says Edwards, “I’m hanging up the bridle.” “I sold my last one (Cupids Arrow) last month.” Edwards’ first winner was Grattan Royale in 1984. He ended up winning six from 24 and her headliner was Frugal Echo, who won 16 from 81 career starts. “He was the best trotter I ever trained,” she says. In the early 2000s he was up against some of the country’s best ever square-gaiters and was good enough to run second to multiple Group 1 winner Take A Moment on several occasions. He was also runner-up behind La Coocaracha in the 2002 Rowe Cup, to Lyell Creek in the 2000 Dominion and to Martina H in the 2003 Dullard Cup in Victoria. Other good performers included Una Bromac, who was a Group winner in 2005, while the now 14-year-old Grey Stoke is a favourite. “He won 11 races and I got a lot of satisfaction from winning with him,” says Edwards, “he will be here till the day he dies.” Edwards never trained a huge team. “I never had more than nine or 10 and in recent years it’s been closer to four and five.” “There have been a lot of highlights.” “I love the grass track racing and I was fortunate enough to win a couple of Cups on the grass, one of them was in the (2007) Kumeu Country Cup with a horse for Mum called O K Miles. Iwi Trouble was another “tough old horse” who did well on the grass track circuit, winning six races overall from 72 starts. Edwards isn’t sure what the future holds. “I’ll see what comes around the corner but racing’s been very good to me and I’ve loved it.” View the full article
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