By Jonny Turner Tim Williams hopes leading Waitaki Hotel Kurow Cup hope J T Boe will only be off a 35m handicap at Oamaru on Sunday. The Steve and Amanda Telfer-trained pacer ($3FF) shares the back mark in the 2600m with key rival and fellow favourite Dreams Are Free ($3.50FF) in the day’s feature pace (4.43pm). J T Boe strode to an easy win in his last start but that came from behind the mobile. While the pacer is a winner from a standing start, he is a novice from…
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Rosa Shard “best chance” for Team Cullen at Addington tonight
By Michael Guerin The big names of the Cullen team heading to Addington tonight may have to take a back seat to the new girl in town. Because co-trainer Hayden Cullen says wide draws for Trump Card (R6) and Ashley Frank (R9) mean debutante Rosa Shard (Race 2) could be the stable’s best winning chance. Hayden and Amanda’s team is starting to warm up after a deliberately quiet winter, with the stable to be minus one of its stars from the last two seasons in We Walk By Faith, who…
Williamson clan set to star in today’s Southern Surge heats
By Jonny Turner It could be another Williamson domination at the Southern Surge’s second round heats at Ascot Park on Sunday. Nathan Williamson dominated the opening round of the series when training four winners and driving another two. The trainer-driver again has key runners in the second round in short-priced favourites Off The Canvas and Cheer Up N Dance. Brad Williamson will roll out a powerful team of six including the talented To The Moon And Back and the in-form Cracker Opie. Matthew Williamson brings winning chances to Ascot Park…
New Zealand Junior Driver Championship to be decided at Ashburton today
By Mike Love The McMillan Equine Feeds New Zealand Junior Driver Championships will conclude at Ashburton Raceway today with four heats. Current leader Wilson House has a two-point advantage, on 34 points, with Mia Holbrough on 32 points, and Harrison Orange on 30 points. Defending champion Carter Dalgety sits fourth on 29 points, while Seth Hill and Emily Johnson are fifth equal on 27 points. With a big gap back to the rest, it looks likely the winner of the Championship will come from one of these. While northern…
Mo’unga rated real chance in tonight’s National Handicap at Addington
By Michael Guerin Mo’unga finds himself in the very unusual situation of being on a 30m backmark at Addington tonight and actually being better off than his recent races. The open classer starts from the backmark in the $22,500 Garrards National Handicap (7.37pm), the sort of handicap which has become increasingly more difficult for horses to overcome these days. But trainer Regan Todd says Mo’unga’s latest performances suggest he can still win the first race on the road to the New Zealand Trotting Cup at Addington on Tuesday, November 10. …
Mo’unga rated real chance on tonight’s National Handicap at Addington
By Michael Guerin Mo’unga finds himself in the very unusual situation of being on a 30m backmark at Addington tonight and actually being better off than his recent races. The open classer starts from the backmark in the $22,500 Garrards National Handicap (7.37pm), the sort of handicap which has become increasingly more difficult for horses to overcome these days. But trainer Regan Todd says Mo’unga’s latest performances suggest he can still win the first race on the road to the New Zealand Trotting Cup at Addington on Tuesday, November 10. …
Dalgety starts defence of NZ Junior Driver Championships
By Michael Guerin Carter Dalgety’s defence of his New Zealand Junior Driver Championship title will soon be followed up by the sporting trip of a lifetime. Dalgety has a good book in the three juniors races at Alexandra Park tonight which start the series before four more races decide it at Ashburton on Sunday. Dalgety won the title last year and is the TAB’s $5 second favourite behind Crystal Hackett ($3.50) to win it again. But while he is looking forward to trying to defend his title Dalgety admits a…
Tact Teva adds to puzzle in National Handicap
By Michael Guerin Tact Teva is being thrust into the big time at Addington this Friday. One of the country’s most in-form and promising intermediate grade pacers, he steps up into semi open class company in the $22,500 Garrards’ National Handicap. He faces a 10m handicap, the same mark as his better-performed stablemate Bettors Anvil, with Tim Williams on the latter so Terry Chmiel to partner Tact Teva. The four-year-old won his only previous standing start two starts ago but Friday’s 2600m feature will give Team Telfer a good pointer…
James Dunn to have first race day drive at Addington
By Mike Love Canterbury horseman James Dunn will have his first race-day drive at Addington this afternoon. Dunn is no stranger to the winner’s circle, having co-trained forty-seven winners with his father Geoff Dunn, between 2021 and 2024, before heading to Australia. “My wife and I went over to Australia for a working holiday for a year,” explained Dunn. “We went to Canberra, and I worked for a galloping stable, and helped out in a harness stable in my spare time.” Today, Dunn will link up with the Mitchell…
Indulge Me tipped to make winning return at Winton
By Jonny Turner Spring must be just around the corner. As the end of a quiet winter approaches, Nathan Williamson will line up new firepower and a star filly as the Southern Surge kicks off at Winton on Sunday. Indulge Me ($1.45) will start for the first time since her second in the Group 1 Northern Oaks in May when she takes on the opening round of the second edition of the Southern Surge, the Diamond Creek/SBSR Southern Surge Mobile Pace (2.53pm). Williamson admits that theoretically the three-year-old should take…