By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk John Dunn nearly pulled off the upset of Cup Day on Tuesday, but it was not to be. The Canterbury reinsman set a solid tempo in the Group One Nevele R Fillies Series Final (1980m) with Need You Now, making life difficult for short-priced favourite Amazing Dream to make ground out wide. Need You Now took a two length advantage over Amazing Dream turning for home, but she was run down late and denied victory by a neck. Trainer Robert Dunn was full of…
Month: November 2020
Selections Auckland (13 November)
Selections for Auckland tonight Head to www.tab.co.nz to place your bet! Race JASON TEAZForm Analyst MICHAEL GUERINForm Analyst Race 16.08pm 4 Happy Place 6 Cowgirls N Lace 1 Miss Taken 2 Jemma 3 Ideal Agent 4 Happy Place 6 Cowgirls N Lace 2 Jemma Race 26.38pm 9 Lexi T 10 Rosie 1 Safrakova 6 Expensive Crumpet 2 Kelvinz Luck 8 Tobruk 9 Lexi T 1 Safrakova Race 37.04pm 2 Outlaw Man 1 Colin Bromac 5 Bettor Listen 3 John Wayne 1 Colin Bromac 5 Bettor Listen 2 Outlaw Man 4 Murphys Reward…
THRILL OF THE CHASE RETURNS TO 7TWO
AUSTRALIA’S only free-to-air greyhound racing television program THRILL OF THE CHASE returns this Sunday on 7TWO for an exciting four week run – including a live broadcast of the world’s greatest greyhound race the TAB Melbourne Cup. Hosted by Jack Heverin, with panellists – race caller and greyhound trainer James Van de Maat and Greyhound Racing Victoria’s Molly Haines, THRILL OF THE CHASE promises viewers all the latest news and opinions from on and off the track, and live TAB odds. On Friday 27 November, the show heads to Sandown…
Knight ‘peppers’ Shepparton 650m TR
Middle-distance revelation Manila Knight last night smashed Shepparton’s 650-metre track record. Trained at Tuerong by Mario Briganti, Manila Knight (May ’18 Barcia Bale x Angie Rocks) clocked a stunning 36.88sec – carving almost two lengths off the 36.99sec mark set by Pepper Shiraz on April 19, 2018. Contesting a GDR Special Event, Manila Knight ($1.60F) led throughout from Box 5 to defeat I’m Easy Boys ($5.00) by 5.5L, with Burn Time ($4.50) a further 1.5L away third. It was his 14th win from 34 starts. Briganti said Manila Knight’s track…
Stakes winners keep coming for Belardo
Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Belardo, is among Europe’s leading first season sires and increased his tally of stakes winners to four overnight when his unbeaten son Belloccio took out the Grand Criterium du Languedoc over a mile at Toulouse. Travelling close to the speed throughout, Belloccio quickly responded when asked the question by Olivier Peslier and ran out to a length-and-a-quarter margin at the line. BELARDO’s three other stakes winners are the Group winning fillies Isabella Giles (G2 Rockfel Stakes and G3 Prestige Stakes), Lullaby Moon (G3 Prix Miesque and…
Mature Princess relishing a staying trip
Although Princess Jenni (NZ) (High Chaparral) burst onto the scene winning four of her first six starts, trainer David Brideoake knew even then that she needed time and was a long way from being the finished product. Her last victory in that early sequence came in the 2019 Gr.1 Australasian Oaks at Morphettville but Brideoake suspected she was doing it on pure talent and still had a lot to learn. That learning curve came this year when she went winless until her last-start victory in the Bendigo Cup, which was…
Sky Darci stamps Classic Mile credentials
Sky Darci (NZ) (Darci Brahma) laid out his credentials for a tilt at the HK$12 million Hong Kong Classic Mile with a win over 1200m at Happy Valley on Wednesday. “We’ll go to 1400 metres in December then go for the Four-Year-Old Classic Series,” trainer Caspar Fownes said. The Darci Brahma gelding mustered early from the gates to hold a midfield position under jockey Joao Moreira, before turning for home and switching back to the inside to pull away in style for a tidy two and three-quarter lengths win. “He’s…
Autumn targets for My Gold Bracelet
Group Two winner My Gold Bracelet (NZ) (Pins) has been turned out for the spring in preparation for some black-type targets in Victoria in the autumn. The daughter of Pins won three of her four starts in New Zealand for former trainers Johnno Benner and Hollie Wynyard, including the Gr.2 Wellington Guineas (1400m). She was then transferred to Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr’s Caulfield stable where she placed in her Australian debut before two unplaced runs in the Gr.2 Lets Elope Stakes (1400m) and Gr.2 Stocks Stakes (1600m). “She…
Cup Day Sold Out
Christchurch Casino New Zealand Cup Day at Riccarton Park Racecourse on Saturday is officially sold out. The Canterbury Jockey Club announced that sales for the capacity attendance of 15,000 people was reached on Thursday afternoon. Consequently, there will be no sales on the day. The figure of 15,000 includes the allocation for owners of horses racing on the day who are sent their official ticket by way of an ‘Owners Letter’ from New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing. Interest in the day is further highlighted by a record number of horses totalling…
Million aim for Guineas winner
Last Saturday’s Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) winner Aegon (NZ) (Sacred Falls) is likely to be aimed at the Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie on January 23, but a delay in returning from the South Island could mean the unbeaten three-year-old enters the race without a run. “There was a delay with the (Cook Strait) crossing and he should be back in Cambridge on Friday sometime,” said Andrew Forsman, who trains the son of Sacred Falls in partnership with Murray Baker. “We probably have run out of…