By Jonny Turner Trent Yesberg’s three-strong team will attempt to take their excellent grass track form to Timaru’s all-weather track on Sunday. Yesberg starts Kusanova (race 4), Missy Moo (race 10) and Dismara (race 11), who each paid a dividend at Motukarara last weekend. Kusanova will be out to go one better than her narrow second placing behind Bettor Believe It. The 5yr-old will wear sliding blinds and it is hoped they can help the her make the step in to the winner’s circle for the first time. “There is…
Year: 2020
Big Fish, Little Fish – Timaru 4 October
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Vics bound for SA
Catch The Thief is Victoria’s show stealer in the Group 1 Adelaide Cup series (515m) at Angle Park. He gained exemption from tomorrow night’s heats after receiving automatic entry into the final – courtesy of his SA Match Race Series win. Catch The Thief won the G2 WA Derby and G3 Warragul St Leger, was a finalist in the G1 Vic Peters Classic and G3 Cranbourne Classic, and runner-up in the G3 Speed Star. He’s also won 18 races from 30 starts – including 12 of his past 17. However,…
Sierra Sue dazzles in Group Two win
It was a case of Kiwis sticking together when the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Sierra Sue (NZ) (Darci Brahma) landed the Gr.2 Rose of Kingston Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday under an economical ten out of ten ride by jockey Michael Walker. Horse, trainers and jockey all started their careers in New Zealand and Sierra Sue has quickly fashioned a successful record in Australia, with Saturday’s win her fifth in seven starts and most important to date. “Wow, we had the gate not in our favour and we…
Probabeel provides Richards with Group One double
Star Kiwi mare Probabeel (NZ) (Savabeel) capped another stellar day for outstanding young trainer Jamie Richards when winning the Gr.1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) under a positive Kerrin McEvoy ride. The Matamata horseman celebrated a Group One quinella in his homeland when Melody Belle (NZ) (Commands) narrowly downed stablemate Avantage (Fastnet Rock) in the Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings. The 31-year-old watched Probabeel land one of Australia’s iconic handicaps on his phone whilst traveling home from the Hawke’s Bay meeting. Probabeel, who races in the colours of Brendan and Jo…
Verry Elleegant too good in Turnbull
Verry Elleegant (NZ) (Zed) showed she can win Group Ones in the wet and in dry conditions after overcoming a class field to deliver her champion trainer Chris Waller the trifecta in Saturday’s Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington. Verry Elleegant, who started the $5 favourite, moved into favourtism for the Caulfield Cup and shortened further for the Melbourne Cup following the victory over her Oaks-winning stablemate Toffee Tongue (NZ) (Tavistock), registering her fifth Group One victory in the process. After a long wait for the photo, another of Waller’s runners,…
Blanket finish to Hawke’s Bay Guineas
The judge has his work cut out at Hastings on Saturday as he perused the photo finish to one of the day’s feature events, the Gr.2 Dundeel at Arrowfield Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m). Five horses went to the line with less than half a length between them and when the dust settled it was the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Aegon who got in the deciding stride to down Bourbonaire with maiden galloper Moana snatching third ahead of race favourite Need I Say More and Suffused. Scared Falls gelding Aegon…
Local win in Canterbury Belle Stakes
Local filly Matchmaker gave her rivals a start and a beating when she took out Saturday’s Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton. The Nick Wigley and Kayla Milnes-trained three-year-old had been touted as a topliner in the making after she blitzed her rivals over 1000m on debut at Riccarton back in July. That win saw Indian-born Sydneysider Manoj Wanzare, a fund manager who has enjoyed recent success as a part-owner of Group One star Verry Elleegant and last weekend’s Gr.2 Golden Pendant (1400m) winner Subpoenaed, buy…
Rae colt dominates Riccarton two-year-old contest
Ruakaka trainer Kenny Rae is no stranger to spring success at Riccarton with early season two-year-olds and he was at it again on Saturday when Follow Your Dreams proved too speedy for his rivals over 800m. The Contributer colt was strongly fancied in Saturday’s first two-year-old contest in the south this season off the back of an effortless six length trial victory on the track last month despite having to cede outright favouritism to the Jamie Richards-trained Matamata raider Avonallo. The two colts locked horns from barrier rise although Wrote…