Day: 29 September 2024

Jakama Krystal (NZ) (Jakkalberry) was back for redemption in the final jumping race of the season on Sunday and she earned just that, storming to victory in the Property Brokers Pahiatua/Woodville (4000m). The Jakkalberry mare had competed at the Woodville venue earlier this month in the open steeplechase and looked the winner at the 600m, before landing awkwardly and dislodging her rider after jumping that fence. Peter and Jessica Brosnan elected to back her up the following weekend at Te Rapa where she was solid in third, but returning to…

Promising hurdler Dictation (NZ) (Tavistock) finished his jumping season in style at Woodville on Sunday, putting on the complete performance to take out the Toll Free Tararua (3000m). The son of Tavistock has had a near-faultless first season hurdling, winning undercard races on major days at Hawke’s Bay and Riccarton Park, albeit the latter coming as a consolation after he dislodged the jockey at the final fence of the Sydenham Hurdles (3100m). Returning to the North Island, Dictation was defeated by fellow rising star Mugshot at Woodville, before coming in…

Marieke Simons had an afternoon to remember at Woodville on Sunday, riding her first winner as an amateur aboard a horse she trains and co-owns in Ride The Tide (NZ) (Darci Brahma). The Awapuni horsewoman had competed on 11 previous occasions in amateur races dating back to the 2013/14 season, and after five years away from race-day riding, she made her return in this season’s Flair Amateurs Series Final (2200m). The country’s top amateur jockey Scotty Macnab had his sixth series title all parcelled up prior to the Final, while…

Andrew Forsman has suggested Gr.3 MRC Foundation Cup winner Positivity (NZ) (Almanzor) will take her chance in the Caulfield Cup, but he is still on the hunt for a jockey to ride at 50 kilograms. Forsman had initially been reluctant to throw his SA Fillies Classic winner in the deep end this spring prior to her win last weekend in a driving finish over Future History. “We are very tempted,” Forsman said of the Caulfield Cup. “I suppose when you have 50 kilos in a $5 million race you have…

Guy Heveldt, Emily Bosson and Jayne Ivil breakdown Hawkes Bay cancellation. Talk I Wish I Win with Mark Chittick and review the big races across the ditch. Weigh In, September 29 (youtube.com)