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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Arapaho Stuns in Sydney Cup, Clocking Record Time in Upset Victory The staying feature on Day 2 of The Championships witnessed a significant upset as Bjorn Baker‘s $20 outsider, Arapaho, defied expectations to claim the Sydney Cup 2025 in emphatic record-breaking fashion. The resilient eight-year-old Lope De Vega gelding, who had finished fourth in the […] The post Sydney Cup 2025 Winner is Arapaho at $20 appeared first on HorseRacing.com.au. View the full article -
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Saturday’s Listed City Of Napier Sprint (1200m) capped a remarkable four-win sequence at Trentham for Slipper Island (No Nay Never), whose trainer Tony Pike now has his eye on an even bigger prize at the Wellington track. As recently as January of this year, Slipper Island was an underachiever with a record that fell far short of his talent. The five-year-old son of No Nay Never had won only twice in a 26-start career, with another nine minor placings and a rating languishing in the low 60s. But Pike mapped out a series of sprints down the Trentham chute through the summer and early autumn, and Slipper Island has turned his whole career around with four straight wins. He kicked off the sequence in Rating 65 grade on Wellington Cup Day on January 18, followed by Rating 75 victories on March 2 and again under a 59kg topweight on March 29. Saturday’s $80,000 black-type feature was another big step up in class, but Slipper Island rose to the occasion and carried on his winning way. Slipper Island broke awkwardly from gate three, but soon recovered and took up a midfield position along the rail. When the front-runner Idyllic (No Nay Never) rolled away from the fence coming across on to the course proper, jockey Lily Sutherland drove Slipper Island through on her inside. Slipper Island dashed to the front with 200m remaining and quickly moved two lengths clear of Idyllic, but his job was far from over. Group One winner Pier (NZ) (Proisir) was powering out of the pack, while the talented mare Tomodachi (NZ) (Tarzino) flew home down the extreme outside. The three of them hit the finish line locked together, with Slipper Island maintaining a margin of a half-head over Pier. Tomodachi was the same margin away in third. Slipper Island was offered by Hallmark Stud in Book 1 of Karaka 2021, where Pike Racing bought him for $180,000. He has now had 30 starts for six wins, nine placings and $246,664 in stakes. “He was very good today,” Pike said. “He’s certainly loved that chute at Trentham in his last few starts and has gone to a whole new level. “He’s probably done enough in this preparation now and can go out for a bit of a spell. We’ll see how he comes up next time in, but if he could get to the level of a race like the Telegraph (Gr.1, 1200m), that would be a great target to try to aim at.” Slipper Island completed a black-type double on the Trentham card for Sutherland, who made a similar winning move along the inside rail aboard Mehzebeen (NZ) (Almanzor) in the Listed Valley D’Vine Restaurant Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m). View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Te Akau Racing ran rampant at both New Zealand venues on Saturday, culminating in a runaway by Dream Of The Moon (All Too Hard) in the Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton. The $80,000 three-year-old fillies’ feature was the third win on the Riccarton card for trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson. The premiership-leading stable previously had a quinella with Knowledge Is Power (NZ) (Written Tycoon) and Hooray For Harry (Harry Angel) in the Windsor Park Stud RR&B Luncheon & Yearling Sale Rating 65 (1200m), followed by Star Shadow’s (NZ) (Reliable Man) success in the Avon City Ford Rating 65 (1600m). Meanwhile at Trentham, quality staying mare Mehzebeen (NZ) (Almanzor) bounced back from a disappointing Australian campaign with victory in the Listed Valley D’Vine Restaurant Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m). But none of those victories were as dominant as Dream Of The Moon, who added a first black-type win to her CV alongside second placings in the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) and Listed Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m), third in the Gr.2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m) and fourth in the Gr.3 Taranaki 2YO Classic (1200m) and Listed Star Way Stakes (1200m). The only blemish in the All Too Hard filly’s form line was a last-start eighth at Riccarton on March 22, after which she was found to have a slow recovery rate. She bounced back in style on Saturday. Dream Of The Moon and rider George Rooke settled in sixth place as Lady Diva (NZ) (Eminent) and Kellanzor (NZ) (Almanzor) showed the way up to the home turn. Rooke had Dream Of The Moon under a firm hold as she cruised up alongside those two rivals in the straight, and the race was over as soon as Rooke pushed the button. Within the space of a few bounds, Dream Of The Moon powered away and opened up a winning margin of three and a quarter lengths over the multiple Group placegetter Connello (NZ) (Time Test). The winner’s stablemate Donna Chiara (NZ) (Belardo) finished another length and a quarter away in third. Bought by David Ellis for A$160,000 from the 2023 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Dream Of The Moon has now had 11 starts for three wins, four placings and $165,175 in stakes. “It was a richly deserved stakes win to add to her previous stakes-placed efforts, and she really was dominant today,” said Walker, who has trained 16 Group and Listed winners in partnership with Bergerson this season. “She’s a beautiful filly that Dave (Ellis) bought for a realistic price in Australia, and she’s put together a very good record. Dave has bought so many good yearlings out of the Gold Coast, and she’s proving to be on par with some of those. “It’s great for the ownership group to get that win, and Hunter (Durrant) and the team are doing a fine job at our Riccarton stables. It was a brilliant win and she can now contest the Warstep Stakes (Listed, 2000m) in a fortnight.” The Warstep Stakes will be run at Riccarton on April 26 and is the final leg of the four-race New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year Series. Saturday’s win lifted Dream Of The Moon to the top of the table with 11 points. Raziah (NZ) (Niagara) and Pivotal Ten (NZ) (Ten Soverigns) share second spot with 7 points, while Lil Zena (NZ) (US Navy Flag) and Connello have 4 points and Lavender Haze (Dubious), Loose Sally (NZ) (Turn Me Loose) and Donna Chiara (NZ) (Belardo) all have 2. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Underrated mare Tikki (NZ) (Per Incanto) added to her burgeoning career record when she claimed the feature race for the open handicap speedsters at Riccarton on Saturday, the Commodore Hotel Open Sprint (1200m). The Steven Prince-trained five-year-old had made her mark on tracks with a little give in them around her home province of Otago but Prince wasn’t afraid to bring her to Christchurch to tackle the best on a Good 4 surface after she had finished third in the Listed Pegasus Stakes (1000m) at the venue in November last year. With leading rider Tina Comignaghi aboard, fresh from an overseas break to visit family and friends, Tikki jumped well before working forward to sit just behind pacemakers Rhonda Wood (NZ) (Redwood) and South Of Houston (Deep Field). Comignaghi pushed the go button at the 350m and she joined South Of Houston before beating off her challenge with 100m to run, as The Radiant One (NZ) (Darci Brahma) closed strongly to take third behind a game South Of Houston who clung on for second. Prince has a high opinion of the mare and has some lofty ambitions for her in her next campaign. “She just keeps stepping up for us and I don’t think she is finished yet although we are going to put her in the paddock now as she has come a long way in this prep,” Prince said. “She had to do plenty of work to get handy today and then she was left in front, but she really knuckled down and Tina said she just has a fantastic will to win. “She ran her last 600m in just over 33 seconds so she has the ability there. “We will give her a good spell and then we will get her back to get ready for races like the Pegasus (Listed, 1000m) and Stewards Stakes (Listed, 1200m) back here in November.” Tikki is raced by a group of Otago mates including Craig Hunter who purchased the Per Incanto filly online from New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2020 National Weanling Sale on gavelhouse.com during the COVID-19 lockdown. Under his pseudonym Wagonwheel, Hunter went to $11,000 to secure the half-sister to stakes performer Princeton Spirit (NZ) (Nadeem), who has now won seven of her 16 starts and just under $173,000 in prizemoney. View the full article -
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Former Kiwi Sergeant Major (NZ) (Proisir) recorded a strong victory in the Listed South Pacific Classic (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday as the three-year-old son of Proisir made a deserved Australian breakthrough. Racing for a syndicate headed by Ozzie Kheir, the Ciaron Maher trained galloper raced prominently throughout and defeated ownership-mate Nostringsattached (Extreme Choice) by just under a half-length. Ridden by Ethan Brown, Sergeant Major sat to the inside of the leader a half-length adrift throughout in what is often an awkward position, but he showed plenty of resilience to run out a ready winner over the concluding stages. A juvenile winner at Trentham last season for original trainer Gavin Sharrock, Sergeant Major was subsequently snapped up by Kheir in a deal brokered by bloodstock agent Melissa Robinson. The gelding has been multiple stakes placed since crossing the Tasman and came out of a strong form race when fourth to the highly talented Autumn Glow (The Autumn Sun) in the Listed Darby Munro Stakes (1200m) at his previous start. “He’s a horse that has always shown really good ability,” Maher said. “Ozzie and the team found another nice horse over in New Zealand. “I think he will just continue on the path of a few of his other New Zealanders. Each preparation he will just get better. “It was a beautiful ride by Browny (Ethan Brown). He took luck out of it and took the race by the scruff and he was very good.” Maher was unsure of what would come next for the talented three-year-old but a trip north to Queensland could be in the offing. “We will just assess his performance today and how he is,” Maher said. “I have always thought he is going to be a horse that is better in time but we will just assess that. “There is a big race up there (the Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap, 1400m) where you do get a light weight as a three-year-old, so we will see how we go.” Sergeant Major was bred and initially raced by Hawera accountant Gavin O’Dea, who retained a small interest in the horse. O’Dea has enjoyed a successful association with Gavin Sharrock through Sergeant Major’s multiple stakes winning brother Soldier Boy (NZ) (Proisir) and their sister Vancooga (NZ) (Proisir), runner-up in the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m). The trio are all of the Ekraar mare Forty Love and by Rich Hill Stud stallion Proisir, who is the sire of 6.5 percent stakes winners to runners. Sergeant Major is the 23rd individual stakes winner for the high-class stallion, with six of those Group One winners. View the full article
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