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Blog Post- Nathan Trumper March 2021

Keith & Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship recipient Nathan Trumper updates us on his adventures in Ireland:Each week you are placed in different yards, the last couple of weeks I've been at Maddenstown. Commonly known as ‘Mad Town’, this is where all the dry mares are overseen by Tom (the foreman stationed there) who manages the many mares who get teased and put through the crush for the vet to check them. This has been one of my favourite places to work. Tom is a great guy to work with, ...

Stakes assignment for promising three-year-old

A comprehensive three-length victory at Matamata on Saturday has set promising three-year-old Tar And Cement on a path to the Gr.2 Fusion Electrical Wellington Guineas (1400m) at Trentham next month. The Reliable Man gelding made it two wins from two starts when he led all the way over 1400m on the weekend for trainer Tony Pike, who has a big opinion of his charge. “He’s a very promising type who has taken a while to get his act together,” Pike said. “He’s a pretty well put together ho...

Star of the Seas secures All-Star Mile spot

Star Of The Seas (Ocean Park x Stella Livia) secured a spot in the All-Star Mile with a tough win in the Gr.2 Blamey Stakes (1600m). The Chris Waller-trained gelding held off a determined challenge from Fifty Stars (Sea The Stars), who was trying to become the first horse to claim the Group Two Flemington feature three years in a row. Jamie Kah's mount Buffalo River (Noble Mission) set a fast pace in front and he was still four lengths clear with 200 metres to go. Waller's Melbourne stable forep...

Sky Field picks up lucrative bonus

Sky Field was back in winning form on Wednesday winning at Happy Valley in Hong Kong. The four-year-old gelding’s win delighted trainer Caspar Fownes as the son of Deep Field collected a HK$1,500,000 High Achievement Bonus for winning a Class 1 contest before reaching the age of five. Fownes predicts a bright future for Sky Field after he charged down the outside under Alexis Badel to deny Stronger by a head. “He’s still learning, but he’s a good horse. Once he starts to really chill wit...

Walls stepping down

After 22 years Kevin ‘Millie’ Walls will be stepping down from his role as Stud Manager at Trelawney Stud. Walls joined the Trelawney team in 1998 and has been an integral part of the farm during that time, seeing 25 individual Group One winners bred, raised or sold from the property pass through his hands. “Millie has been instrumental in the overall success of Trelawney Stud,” Managing Director Brent Taylor said. “He has led our team of staff to achieve the results we have strived f...

Stakes targets beckon regally-bred filly

Regally-bred filly Aquaoir will head to Ellerslie on Saturday in preparation for a tilt at the Gr.3 Sunline Vase (2100m) next month.Bred by Trelawney Thoroughbreds, Aquaoir was purchased out of the farm's 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 draft for $100,000. The Cody Cole-trained three-year-old is a half-sister to Group One winners Loire and A Touch Of Ruby, and her connections are keen for the daughter of Ocean Park to add further black-type to her pedigree page. She placed in her two initial ...

BLOG: Nathan Trumper

There are 24 students on the course for 2021 which is a special year for the stud being the 50th year of this wonderful course. The first 2 weeks there were 12 of the international students that had to do a two-week quarantine stint at the stud. It was a great two weeks to really getting to know everyone before the Irish turned up. There was a lot of time spent in the common room watching races from all over the world, the sales on the Gold Coast, as well as watching a lot of movies. &...

James looking for big run from Concert Hall

Cambridge trainer Roger James will produce Concert Hall in Saturday's Gr.3 Powerworx Taranaki Cup (1800m) at New Plymouth as a springboard to a campaign in Melbourne, just days after the death of his last star performer in Australia, Silent Achiever. Concert Hall became James' first Group One winner since Silent Achiever when she won the Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day and he will now attempt to guide her to similar Australian success. "Make no mistake, she's no Silent Achiever...

Loire wins Rotorua trial

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is looking forward to autumn racing with Loire after her pleasing trial at Rotorua on Tuesday. Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) winner Loire showed a good turn of foot when coming from the back of the field to take out her 1000m heat by three-quarters of a length. “I was really pleased with her trial today,” Pike said. “She’s a Group One filly you expect to trial well. “She came home nicely off the slow speed and did it nicely. Hopefully she is in for ...

Karaka 2021 another successful year for Trelawney

Trelawney Stud’s Brent and Cherry travelled up to Karaka for the 2021 Yearling Sales cautiously optimistic and left the New Zealand Bloodstock complex thrilled with their results. Each of the 12 yearlings offered in Book 1 by the Cambridge-based farm sold and Brent Taylor was full of praise for New Zealand Bloodstock and the domestic bloodstock agents who assisted their overseas contemporaries with the buying process. “It has been a spectacular effort from all involved and I’d like to than...

Fastnet Rock colt heading to Aussie

Trelawney Stud continued a strong day of selling on day two of the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale. Top lot of the day for the Cambridge-based farm was the Iffraaj x Bellazeel colt who was knocked down to Hong Kong's Good Fortune Bloodstock. The youngster, who was catalogued as Lot 273, received a timely pedigree update with his half-sister, La Strata (Stratum), recently winning her maiden at Taranaki and his brother, Seajetz, winning at Te Aroha. The colt’s dam, Bellazeel, is a ...

Persistence pays off for James

Trainer Roger James admitted he had pretty much given up the ghost towards the end of a bidding stoush for Lot 126, the Sebring filly from the Trelawney Stud draft at Karaka on Sunday. James and the Go Racing Syndications team went head-to-head for several minutes for the filly out of stakes placed mare Smashing, with James finally securing the granddaughter of multiple Group Two winner Ruud Van Slaats (NZ) (Van Nistelrooy) for $295,000. “I am indebted to my owner who was with me all the way o...

Beauden defends Marton Cup crown

Exciting stayer Beauden returned to the scene of his 2020 triumph in the Listed Japac Marton Cup (2200m) on Saturday and made it back-to-back victories in the race with a devastating performance.The Team Rogerson-trained six-year-old, who was born and raised at Trelawney Stud for breeder/owner Joan Egan, came into the race off the back of an emphatic four length win in the Taupo Cup, where regular rider Ryan Elliot had set him alight well before the home turn that day to blitz his race rivals.El...

Australian targets for Concert Hall

Cambridge trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood are still coming down from the high of winning the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) with Concert Hall at Ellerslie on Boxing Day, and they are now looking at international targets with the mare. The daughter of Savabeel has been in faultless form this season, winning three of her five starts, including the Zabeel Classic, Gr.2 Tauranga Stakes (1600m), and Gr.3 Thompson Handicap (1600m), while she has placed in her two other starts, including the Gr.1...

Gold Watch providing retiree with plenty of thrills

Retirement hobbies don’t usually include training racehorses, but it’s proving great fun for 89-year-old Cliff Goss. The Tauranga horseman, who is the father of Trelawney Stud's Cherry Taylor, who has worked around the world with some of the most notable names in racing, has a highly promising horse in his care in Gold Watch. The four-year-old gelding who carries the Trelawney Stud brand has won all three of his starts this season, the most recent when coming from last to win a Rat...

Seajetz provides timely pedigree update

The Trelawney-bred and sold Seajetz cleared maiden ranks on Sunday at Te Aroha wining his 1400m event at the Thames Jockey Club meeting. Seajetz, who ran fifth on debut in December, handled the wet track conditions and trainer Jamie Richards was confident of a strong effort leading into the race. “We’d been really happy with him during the week, Richards said. “He’d been working up with Burgundy Rose (Burgundy), who came out and won well yesterday at Tauranga. “He’d improved off the ...

Star Tsar on Cups path following Ellerslie victory

Progressive staying prospect Star Tsar staked his claim for a start in the Gr.1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m) in March with a dominant victory in Friday’s Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (2400m) at Ellerslie. The track specialist, who carries the Trelawney Stud brand and was raised on the farm, appealed as a leading chance in the race off the back of a solid run for sixth in the Gr.3 Manawatu Cup (2300m) at his last start and franked that form with a comprehensive victory. R...

Stakes target for Beauden

Owner Joan Egan is having a week to remember. On Boxing Day she won the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie with Concert Hall, and on Wednesday the Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained Beauden won the Taupo Cup (2000m) emphatically in front of a bumper crowd.Both were born and raised at Trelawney Stud on behalf of Egan. Beauden, a son of Bullbars began well from barrier six for jockey Ryan Elliot to settle outside early pacemaker Mongolianconqueror. Elliot let his charge loose at the 600m ma...

Vamos Bebe scores stakes win

Progressive mare Vamos Bebe took the step up to stakes company with relative ease when she strode clear in the final stages of Saturday’s Listed Hallmark Stud Sprint (1200m) at Ellerslie for a comprehensive victory in the silks of Trelawney Stud. Trainer Jamie Richards backed his opinion of the I Am Invincible four-year-old, who was rated a clear six points lower than any of her eight rivals and was rewarded with performance that showed she is well up to top company over the sprint trips. Ride...

Concert Hall gets maiden Group One success

Versatile mare Concert Hall bagged the Group One victory she richly deserved when she stormed home out wide to snatch victory in the Gr.1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie. Prepared for owner and breeder Joan Egan by Roger James and Robert Wellwood, Concert Hall had looked a Group One winner in waiting throughout her career having won four individual stakes races before her success on Saturday, while she had been runner-up to race rival Rock On Wood in the Gr.1 Captain Cook Stak...

Homebred filly wins on debut

Well-related three-year-old Cheaperthandivorce (Savabeel - Boundless) made the perfect start to her racing career on Wednesday winning the TW Moore 1400 at Rotorua for Roger James and Robert Wellwood. The daughter of Savabeel had finished second behind subsequent winner Explosively at her only trial performance which lead Wellwood to believe she would put in a good showing on debut. “We were pleased with her trial leading into the race,” he said. “The fact that the horse that beat her cam...

Concert Hall caps superb week for Cambridge pair

The Roger James and Robert Wellwood stable capped off a superb week when classy mare Concert Hall captured the Gr.2 Gartshore Tauranga Stakes (1600m) at Tauranga on Saturday. The Cambridge stable picked up the Gr.2 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m) at Riccarton on Wednesday with Hypnos and made it a Group Two double in the space of 72 hours courtesy of the Joan Egan-bred and raced Concert Hall who was born and raised at Trelawney Stud. James has made no secret of the high regard he holds for th...

Scholarship winner announced

Nathan Trumper has headed a strong group of applicants to win the 2021 Keith and Faith Taylor Trust Equine Scholarship. Administered by the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, the scholarship will support Trumper to travel to Ireland early next year to attend the world renowned Irish National Stud and complete the breeding diploma. Like many, Trumper’s early introduction to the thoroughbred industry came through family ties when helping out at his grandparent’s stud and trainin...

Purple Sector hoping to get The Gong

The colours of the late Dato Tan Chin Nam were fittingly to the fore on Melbourne Cup Day when Purple Sector took out the Listed Furphy Plate (1800m). The Malaysian Businessman owned Bart Cummings-trained Cup winners Think Big (1974 & 1975), Saintly (1996) and Viewed (2008). Purple Sector, prepared by Randwick trainer John Thompson, required plenty of riding from jockey Craig Williams before prevailing by a neck from outsider Gold Fields, with Odeon a short head away in third. The gelding was ...

Concert Hall all class at Trentham

It may have taken nearly all of the Trentham straight to get her head in front but class performer Concert Hall delivered when it counted as she took out the Gr.3 Gee & Hickton Funeral Directors Thompson Handicap (1600m) on Sunday. Sent out a warm favourite after producing a storming finish for second at Ellerslie when opening her latest campaign, the Savabeel mare, who was born and raised at Trelawney Stud for breeder-owner Joan Egan, delivered for her supporters despite giving them a few heart...