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Naturally larger vendors are attracting attention in the lead up to next week’s NZB Standardbred Yearling Sales at Karaka and Christchurch, but there are also vendors who offer just one yearling at the sales. Lets put the microscope on them. Karaka Lot 24 – Captain Crunch filly out of six win Art Major mare Simply […]
Cyclone Rebel (Bettor’s Delight) dented a few reputations last night when he stormed home to win the first heat of the Woodlands Stud Sire’s Stakes Series at Alexandra Park. From his second row draw driver Matty White settled the gelding third last in the outside running line. With 800 metres to run he moved out […]
When veteran trotter Aveross Majesty (Majestic Son) won at Oamaru recently for trainer Denis O’Connell, the win took the horse’s stake earnings to over the $100,000 mark. The eight year old gelding qualified at Ashburton as a four year old for Andrew Faulks and had seven starts for his stable before O’Connell took over. Aveross […]
With just his third career victory since going out on his own accord, harness racing trainer Tate Hopkins fulfilled a lifelong dream of training a Group One winner with the success of Cyclone Jordy (Art Major) in the $110,000 Breckon Farms Young Guns Cardigan Bay Stakes tonight at Alexandra Park. The young man from Taupaki […]
Group One harness racing heads back to Alexandra Park tonight with the 108th running of the $200,000 Great Northern Derby and the 58th running of the $110,000 Great Northern Oaks which pose to be fantastic affairs underpinning a cracking ten-race programme. On the undercard are the first two heats of the Young Guns Series for […]
Harness racing trainer Tate Hopkins will be counting his lucky stars tonight after being knocked off a jetski in a raging flood as he and fellow rescuer Antony Martinovich tried to extricate a horse that had been caught up in the floodwaters. Hopkins who trains in partnership with well known horseman Frank Cooney got into […]
