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Super run from Seblume

The renowned Trelawney silks were carried to victory in Sydney by Seeblume (Sebring x Sonnenblume). on Saturday. Part-owned by Trelawney, Seeblume was having her second start this campaign and put in a dominant performance to win at Rosehill by a length in the Highway Class 2 Handicap (1500m). "A nice draw helped," said jockey Hugh Bowman. "We were able to settle that bit closer than she had been.  We had the perfect run. "We needed a bit of luck to get some room but when we did she certai...

Scholarship Taylor made for success

In a time when many are lamenting the lack of skilled workers in the thoroughbred industry, Faith Taylor is doing her bit to solve the problem. Taylor sponsors one of two scholarships that the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association award each year, the Keith and Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship that supports the successful candidate to attend the five-month Diploma Course at the Irish National Stud. A keen traveller herself, it is easy to see why Taylor is an advocate of the travel-to-...

Grunt ensures stud future with decisive Makybe win

Last season’s Gr.1 VRC Australian Guineas (1600m) winner Grunt (O’Reilly x Ruqqaya) has returned to racing as a bigger, stronger horse this spring, relishing a return to Flemington last Saturday to record a comprehensive, two length win in the Gr.1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m), defeating Caulfield Cup (2400m) favourite Kings Will Dream with Jon Snow another half-length back in third place. Race time was 1:34.91 with the last 600 metres covered in 35.30.   With two Group One wins an...

War Affair wins trial ahead of NZ G3 race second-up

One month after his comeback seventh in the Group 2 Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa in New Zealand on August 18, former Singapore champion galloper War Affair (O'Reilly x Kristique) came out for a smart barrier trial win at the same racecourse on Tuesday. Ridden by his Foxbridge partner Danielle Johnson, the O’Reilly eight-year-old defeated stablemate Bevan Street (Samantha Collett) by a long neck in the hit-out over 1100m. Johnson had War Affair off to a smart jump to take up...

Purple Sector breaks maiden

The John Thompson-trained Purple Sector (Pins x Eden Valley) scored his first career win when successful at Kembla Grange on Tuesday over 1500m. The Trelawney Stud graduate ran well at Warwick Farm first up this campaign before a third-placed run at Newcastle earlier this month. On Tuesday the son of Pins travelled mid-field before going wide on the turn and running on in the straight, never looking in danger to head the field by 5.3 lengths. Purple Sector, who is now likely to be aimed at black...

Trial benefits Francaletta

Group Three-winning mare Francaletta (High Chaparral x Snow Peak) will have the opportunity to enhance her broodmare value when she lines up in Saturday’s Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings. The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained mare disappointed when ninth in the Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) after an eye-catching fresh-up fourth in the Gr.2 Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate (1200m). The daughter of High Chaparral, who was purchased out of Trelawney Stud's 2014 Inglis Easter draft, ...

WFA spring path for Grunt

After discussions with jockey Damien Oliver and Grunt's (O'Reilly x Ruqqaya) owners, trainer MickPrice plans to keep the Makybe Diva Stakes winner to a weight-for-age program this spring. Price had considered aiming Grunt at the Cups after Saturday's Group One win at Flemington but the trainer confirmed on RSN927 on Monday the intention to head towards the Cox Plate. Grunt is expected to run in the Underwood Stakes (1800m) and Caulfield Stakes (2000m) before the Cox Plate (2040m) and the Mackinn...

Grunt wins G1 Makybe Diva

A return to Flemington has brought out the best in Grunt (O’Reilly x Ruqqaya) in the Gr.1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m). The Mick Price-trained Grunt had been unplaced in his first two spring starts at Caulfield but relished getting back to the bigger track on Saturday, racing away to win the 1600m weight-for-age race. The four-year-old entire's dominant win was his second at the elite level and he continued his good run of form Flemington after wins in the Australian Guineas (1600m) and CS Hayes...

Ocean Knight on target for Danehill

The Lindsay Park team is relying on promising colt Ocean Knight (Ocean Park x The Iffraaj Dame) to deliver the stable a second-straight Danehill Stakes at Flemington. Star filly Catchy won the Gr.2 Danehill a year ago and senior trainer David Hayes has high hopes for Ocean Knight who is being aimed at next month's Gr.1Caulfield Guineas (1600m). Like Catchy last year, Ocean Knight will have Regan Bayliss aboard on Saturday and Hayes believes the colt will handle racing on the straight 1200m-cours...

Local filly set for profitable spring

South Island filly Emily Margaret (Pins x Seven Schillings) announced her candidacy for some of the bigger spoils on offer in the coming months with a stunning last to first performance at Riccarton on Saturday. Placed in two starts as a juvenile, the Pins filly was having her first run for the season off the back of a stylish trial win at Rangiora last month. Despite taking on a field that included a number of race winners, the Kevin and Pam Hughes trained galloper was confidently expected to f...

Ruakaka return for quality 3yo

Quality three-year-old Sword Of Osman (Savabeel x Bunyah) will make a return to the racetrack this weekend when he tackles the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders' Stakes (1200m) at Ruakaka on Saturday. Sword Of Osman won on three occasions in his juvenile year, with victory in the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie over stablemate and Champion two-year-old Avantage the highlight of the campaign. The son of Savabeel is prepared by Jamie Richards at Matamata and is being set for the Gr....

War Affair completes comeback run

Trainer Bruce Marsh said connections were all happy with War Affair’s (O’Reilly x Kristique) first run after almost a year when seventh on a soft track in the Gr.22 Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate (1200m) in New Zealand on Saturday. Now eight, the 2014 Singapore Horse of the Year left for New Zealand shortly after his last unplaced run in the Singapore Gr.3 Jumbo Jet Trophy (1400m) last September. The son of O’Reilly spelled for six months at his place of birth, the Trelawney Stud in Cambrid...

Bright future tipped for Grunt

Trainer Mick Price is eagerly awaiting Saturday’s Gr.2 P.B. Lawrence Stakes (1400m) with a trio of gallopers set for spring riches — Grunt (O'Reilly x Ruqqaya), Mighty Boss and Holy Snow — resuming. His three four-year-old stallions have drawn alongside each other with Holy Snow in barrier five, Grunt in six and Mighty Boss in seven. O’Reilly’s Group One winning son Grunt is expected to be a major player at weight-for-age this spring and connections will be looking to further e...

Three from Trelawney in Foxbridge

Brent and Cherry Taylor and the Trelawney Stud team will have a triple interest in Saturday’s running of the Gr. 2 Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate at Te Rapa. Trelawney bred and sold the former Singapore Horse of the Year War Affair and sold the Group Three-winning mare Francaletta, while their home-bred mare Vinevale will carry the farm’s distinctive green, red and gold colours in the $100,000 weight-for-age feature. The time-honoured Te Rapa race, which was first run in 1950, is named after ...

War Affair to make NZ debut in Te Rapa G2

Stephen Marsh admits he’s under a bit of pressure with his Singapore arrival War Affair (O'Reilly) in the Gr.2 Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. The Cambridge trainer knows he’s got one of the highest-rated horses in the country, but that won’t be enough to earn the eight-year-old son of O’Reilly a crack at the Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings on September 1. War Affair, who was purchased by David Ellis for $70,000 from Trelawney's 2012 New Zealand Bloo...

Postponement puts Francaletta on back foot

The postponement of last week’s Te Teko trials has put smart Cambridge mare Francaletta (High Chaparral) on the back foot going into Saturday’s Gr.2 Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa. But trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman are hoping the class of the High Chaparral mare can overcome the disadvantage. “She really needed that trial last week,” Forsman said. “She’s a gross mare and we’re just hoping she has done enough. “She hasn’t had a trial, but she had a j...

Shamal takes out Riccarton jumping feature

The Trelawney-bred Shamal (Zabeel) capitalised on a perfect trip to take out the 144th running of the Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge Grand National Steeplechase (5600m) at Riccarton. The Ken Duncan trained eight-year-old hugged the rails throughout as rider Buddy Lammas positioned him behind the steady pace set by stablemates Amanood Lad and Kings Deep. Shamal never covered an inch of extra ground until Lammas angled him into the clear to make his challenge with two fences left to run in the tim...

Sword of Osman on right path

Group One winner Sword Of Osman (Savabeel) got the thumbs up from trainer Jamie Richards after a pleasing fresh-up trial at Te Teko on Monday. In the hands of Opie Bosson, Sword Of Osman contested an open 840m heat and, after settling last and under a tight rein, he was taken to the outside in the run home and was doing his best work over the final stages to finish a close fourth to Stella Noire. “We were pretty keen to go back off the wide gate today and try and switch him off a bit,” Richa...

2017-2018 Season wrap-up

Trelawney had another solid season during the 2017/18 racing term.  Horses born, sold or owned by Trelawney collected eight stakes wins, highlighted by two additional Group One victories being added to the tally. Mick Price has marked Grunt (O’Reilly x Ruqqaya) as an exciting prospect for the new season off the back of a superb three-year-old campaign.  Grunt won each of his four starts, including the A$1 million Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington. Price has reported the $...

Singapore veteran joins Marsh stable

Singapore star War Affair (O'Reilly x Kristique) has joined Stephen Marsh’s barn after a six-month spell at Trelawney Stud and the Cambridge trainer is eyeing feature spring racing with the eight-year-old. “He recently joined the stable after having a nice long spell at Trelawney,” Marsh said. “It’s probably the first decent spell he has had for most of his life. “He’s been living over there for so long and he wouldn’t have known himself to get into a nice paddock with foot-long ...

Grunt continues spring build up

The Mick Price pair of Grunt (O'Reilly x Ruqqaya) and Mighty Boss are a step closer to a racetrack return after a gallop between races at Caulfield. The Caulfield Guineas-winning Mighty Boss shaded his Australian Guineas-winning stablemate at the end of the hit-out with neither galloper asked to break the clock. Price said the pair would head to the Cranbourne barrier trials on August 6 before making their returns in the Gr.2 P B Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on August 18. "I was happy wi...

Richly-bred 2YO joins Marsh stable

Stephen Marsh’s first day back at work following a European holiday was brightened by the arrival of a well-related youngster. It was business as usual on Monday at his successful Cambridge stable, which is now home to a sibling to a Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) contender. “The full-brother to Grunt, who looks a beauty, came off the float here, so I’m pretty excited about him,” Marsh said. The O’Reilly youngster is owned by Marsh’s fellow trainers Ben Foote and Finbarr Leahy and Riversley ...

Danielle Southey- Final blog from Ireland

Below in the final blog from Keith and Faith Taylor Equine Irish National Stud Scholarship Recipient Danielle Southey: Hello from Ireland one last time, Well people said to me that this would be an amazing six months of my life, and they weren’t wrong. My time at the Irish National Stud has been amazing and with a great bunch of people. For the month of June all the yards were starting to quieten down as its coming up to the end of the breeding season for the northern hemisphere. With mares ...

Trelawney family's star continues to rise

Ocean Park gelding Star of the Seas ( x Stella Livia) made light work of his opposition at Warwick Farm on Wednesday when he distanced them to win by two and a half lengths in the #Theraces handicap (1200m). The Chris Waller-trained three-quarter brother to Group One performer Spieth (Thorn Park) secured his first victory in just his third start, having placed in his previous two outings. It was a great result for breeder’s Trelawney Stud and farm principal Brent Taylor is excited with the pot...

Kiwi-bred showing plenty of Grunt

Lofty spring targets await Trelawney Stud graduate Grunt (O'Reilly x Ruqqaya). Trainer Mick Price produced the colt to win four of his five three-year-old starts, including the Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m). “Grunt was a lightish Kiwi sort of autumn three-year-old,” Price said. “He had a lovely break after the Australian Guineas and he's a magnificent four-year-old now. “He'll be in those weight-for-age 1400m races. He'll kick off in one of those and then have a weight-for-age program...