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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
With the North American Thoroughbred foal crop continuing to contract, numerous panelists speaking Dec. 10 at the Global Symposium on Racing pointed to regional, multi-state cooperation to help stabilize breeding in states with faltering numbers.View the full article -
probably was the right answer Brodie. the horse undoubtedly had a change of training routine. What else can they say?? . The horse had good drivers before in Orange and that . so the driver wasn't the difference. The horse placed 4th in 1.57 MR last january as it's absolute best run ever. not that quick , but that's way faster than Oamaru win?. and finally YOU Know how respected the HOUSE team are already ?? at taking out of form horses to Manawatu for other owners and trainers , and WINNING too. so it's nothing out of the Blue that they have achieved. Weaver is no -one i've heard of so probably just a country class trainer , where-as HOUSE team can race at Metro city level at times. They are only moderate performers in town . but don't have the 'Secrets' of Allstars, Dunns and Cullen etc 🤣😂 Wilson needed to work elsewhere to learn some tricks of the trade. (like Crystal and Harrison Orange do) -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
A $500 TAB Bonus Bet will be given away as part of Ashburton’s big Harness 5000 meeting next week. Sponsored by Phoebe Stud, the Harness 5000 will feature 12 $60,000 races next Sunday (December 21). Entries for the HRNZ $500 TAB Bonus Bet open tomorrow (Friday, December 12). The winner will be drawn after Race 3 on Phoebe Stud Harness 5000 day. The winner must be on-course to claim the prize. If they are not it will be re-drawn until a winner is found. The prize is a $500 Bonus Bet which will deposited into the winner’s TAB account. It must be used as a single bet of $500 on the day and cannot be split across races. With bonus bets the winner will keep any winnings over the $500 outlay. For instance if you bet the $500 on a $1.50 favourite the winner will take home $250 ($750 – $500 Bonus Bet). Or if you place the $500 at $3 you will keep $1000 ($1500 minus the $500 Bonus Bet). To enter all participants have to do initially is scan the promotion’s QR code. This will be displayed on HRNZ and Ashburton Trotting Club’s websites, social media, on-course at Ashburton, the meeting’s racebook and other publications. Entrants will need to submit the required personal details and in doing so participants are consenting to receiving future promotional communications from HRNZ. Entry is free. To see more about the Terms and Conditions of the HRNZ TAB $500 Bonus bet Giveaway click here To find out more about Phoebe Stud and the stallions they have standing at stud (including Royal Aspirations and Krug) click here View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Nikki Hurdle had the ride of her life with Group One performer Express Yourself, and just six months after her retirement, the Palmerston North horsewoman looks to have her hands on another exciting sprinter. Express Yourself recorded six wins and eight placings from 22 starts, highlighted by her runner-up performance in last year’s Gr.1 Telegraph (1200m), where she was piloted by Hurdle’s jockey son, Ryan Hurdle. Her syndicate of owners offered her on gavelhouse.com earlier this year, where she was purchased by Wairarapa thoroughbred nursery Little Avondale Stud for $102,500. “Express Yourself is now in-foal to Per Incanto. Little Avondale bought her off us and we are very excited, she is going to leave great foals,” Hurdle said. While Wairarapa is Express Yourself’s new home, it was also the home of former stablemate Falcrests Belle’s eye-catching 7-1/2 length maiden win over 1000m on Wednesday. The four-year-old mare had shown Hurdle plenty of promise at home, but she had yet to show that same talent on raceday, finishing last on debut at Tauherenikau in January before resuming this spring with placings at New Plymouth and Tauherenikau. It was at her last-start placing that proved to be the turning point for Falcrests Belle, with senior hoop Kate Hercock partnering her for the first time and coming back to Hurdle post-race with some crucial feedback. “I thought she would win on debut, she really disappointed us, and she went two good races after that but still a bit below what we were expecting,” Hurdle said. “After her last start Kate came in and said, ‘we have to change her gear, she is not breathing properly, she is rolling her tongue back’. “It made sense because that is exactly how she was racing, she was running out of puff.” Hurdle took that feedback onboard and made the advised gear adjustments, and the daughter of Darci Brahma duly romped home to victory at Tauherenikau following a dominant front-running display. “It was huge, we were pretty thrilled with how she went. I always thought she had it in her,” Hurdle said. “Yesterday was probably the turning point for us, I was just thrilled with the way she jumped out and settled and kicked at the turn. When Kate came back she reported that her breathing was perfect and said she hardly blew.” Hurdle is excited to have another promising sprinter on her hands, especially so soon after Express Yourself, and said she owes her association with the mare down to her pedigree and good friend Margaret Cartwright. “I was a bit lucky to get this horse, she is beautifully bred,” Hurdle said. “Centre Crest was a fantastic sprinter, he was a Group One winner and won 16 races. This mare is out of his half-sister (Falcrest) and as soon as I heard that I said to Margaret Cartwright, who had her on her farm, ‘how do I get this horse to train? I would love to have her’. “She was unbroken and she (Cartwright) made it all happen for us. Margaret kept a share, Evan (Foreman), who bred her, kept a share, and then most of the Express Yourself syndicate moved in as well. “I only do one horse at a time, so it has to be something I really like. I just saw this horse and I loved her.” While rapt with Falcrests Belle’s maiden win, Hurdle isn’t getting carried away and said she will take a patient approach with the mare. “I am not going to ask too much of her this time in,” she said. “I want to build her confidence and ringcraft. I think next year she is going to be so much better. She is like Express Yourself, she will hit her straps at five. “I might look at Boxing Day (at Otaki), there is a rating 65 there. Then I might back off her and look at her again in the autumn. “If everything goes like I think it will, we will get a little more adventurous in her next campaign. “The future looks good for her.” View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Summer has arrived, and Shelley Hale is hoping so too will Blue Sky At Night’s form, as she gets set to defend her crown in Saturday’s Gr.3 SkyCity Hamilton Waikato Cup (2400m) at Te Rapa. Her victory in last year’s running kicked off a lucrative summer, which culminated in victory in the Gr.3 Avondale Cup (2400m), a double Hale is hoping to repeat. “We will be trying hard,” the Cambridge trainer said. While pegged as a wet-tracker earlier in her career, Hale said Blue Sky At Night has shed that tag over the last couple of seasons. “Earlier in her career people could have suggested that she was possibly a wet-tracker, but she had a good summer last year so fingers-crossed it is similar this year,” she said. While the Shamexpress mare has been unplaced in all three of her starts this preparation, Hale said they have been luckless runs, and she is hoping to take luck out of the equation on Saturday after drawing ideally in barrier four. “She is on a similar plan to last season, we are hitting it fourth-up,” Hale said. “She is racing well but has been lacking a bit of luck. We hope it is our turn to have the luck on our side this time. “She won’t have to do any work at all (from barrier four) to take up a nice position hopefully, and she gets a nice, light weight (53kg), she is still in a very good place in the handicaps.” While Blue Sky At Night holds a nomination for next month’s Gr.3 NZ Campus Of Innovation & Sport Wellington Cup (3200m), Hale said she will likely bypass the Trentham feature in favour of focussing on the Avondale Cup a few weeks later. “I don’t think she stayed the two miles in the Auckland Cup (Gr.2, 3200m) when we tried her so we will probably go to the Queen Elizabeth II Cup (Gr.3, 2400m) and then she can have a little freshen before having one run into the Avondale Cup and see if we can hit that one again too.” Meanwhile, Hale will head to Tauranga on Friday with Lofty Manuel, a full-sister to Blue Sky At Night’s Saturday race rival Gigi. The four-year-old daughter of Ghibellines will be first-up after a couple of trials and Hale is looking forward to testing her over a mile for the first time in the Kiwi Bus Builders Maiden 1600. “I am looking forward to stretching her out over a little further,” Hale said. “She has been getting too far off the speed and rattling home well, so hopefully she can jump away a little bit better and get a bit closer to the chocolates. “She goes well, she has just got to put it all together.” View the full article
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