Ashley Frye has waited over a decade to get back into the winner’s circle, but that wait is now over after guiding Float to success in the Nautical Insurance Grand National Amateur Championship (2200m) at Riccarton Park Synthetic on Wednesday.
A classy field of synthetic specialists assembled at Riccarton Park in search of the rich spoils on offer in the inaugural Ripple Creek Equine Polytrack $100,000 (1200m), but the glory went the way of local trainers Russell McKay and Ashley Harrington with Spartan.
It’s been a week to remember for the Woodsford family.
Trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson are excited for what spring has instore for their premiership-winning team, with several of their stars stepping out at the Te Rapa trials on Tuesday.
There are few sights more spectacular than watching jumps racing at Riccarton Park, and Saturday’s Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge 149th Grand National Steeplechase Day offers a front-row seat to a phenomenal afternoon of racing.
Robbie Patterson is eyeing major spring targets with the three top-rated performers in his New Plymouth operation.
Brendan and Jo Lindsay celebrated a string of major results in the 2023/24 season from both the proven and promising members of their racing team.
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Ken and Bev Kelso enjoyed plenty of success campaigning their former Group One star Bounding through her three-year-old spring campaign, and the Matamata trainers are set to copy that blueprint this season with another exciting filly.
Canterbury trainer Andrew Carston will be represented in two of the $100,000 synthetic races across the country this week, including the TAB 2000 at Cambridge on Thursday with Sincere.
It looks to be the end of the road of a long and distinguished career for top jumper The Cossack after suffering a suspensory ligament injury.
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing’s (NZTR) release of their consultation document on the future of jumps racing on Monday may have come as a surprise to many, but not leading jumps jockey Shaun Fannin.
