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Vinevale gets new partnership off to a flyer

The in-form Vinevale (Flying Spur x Eden Valley) ensured New Zealand’s newest training partnership got away to a dream start when she struck again on her home track. The mare is prepared at Ruakaka by Chris Gibbs and Michelle Bradley and as their first representative she did them proud with a dominant performance to win the ITM + GIB Open 1400m. “That was a lovely win and since she’s come up here she has just improved,” Bradley said. “A change of environment has obviously helped her, s...

Imported mare strikes first blow on debut

Imported German racemare Igraine, who was bought as a future broodmare prospect for leading Waikato breeders Trelawney Stud, made a winning start to her local racing career when she won over 1400m Te Rapa on Saturday. A winner of one race from six starts in Europe, the Galileo mare had impressed when defeating subsequent winner Padraig over 935m at the Cambridge trials back in May. Given plenty of time to get over that effort, the Robert Priscott trained runner displayed a fine turn of foot as s...

Bostonian wins Sunshine Coast Guineas

Promising three-year-old The Bostonian (NZ) (Jimmy Choux) showed the decision to stay in Queensland after some early setbacks was the right one when he won his second stakes race for the winter at the Sunshine Coast. Given the run of the race by jockey Michael Cahill, The Bostonian, the $2.60 favourite, scored by three-quarters of a length in the Gr.3 Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m). Trainer Tony Pike brought a smaller team than normal from his Cambridge base for the winter but he will go home wi...

Cahill set for Guineas on The Bostonian

Top jockey Michael Cahill is known for his low-key style but even he finds it hard to hide his respect for New Zealand three-year-old The Bostonian (Jimmy Choux x Keepa Cheval). Cahill has ridden The Bostonian, who was born and raised at Trelawney, twice for a win in the Listed Daybreak Lover Stakes (1200m) two weeks ago and then in a 3YO handicap over 1350m at Doomben last Saturday. The pair will be reunited in the Gr.3 Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) at Caloundra on Saturday. It will be The Bos...

Matt Dunn wants more Jim Byrne magic

Trainer Matt Dunn is hoping jockey Jim Byrne can produce some magic for the second week in a row to give him another Queensland winter carnival Cup. Byrne produced a superb ride on Divine Unicorn for Dunn to win the Gr.3 Tattersall's Cup last Saturday. A week later he rides the Dunn-trained Miss Dubois (High Chaparral x My Funny Face) in the Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m). As is the case with many trainers Dunn is keeping a close watch on the weather for Saturday's meeting which is likely to be ru...

Aiming high in farewell preparation

Francaletta’s (High Chaparral) final campaign will include Group One options at home and away. The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained mare is expected to resume in the Gr.2 Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa on August 18 and then head to Hastings for the Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) a fortnight later. “We’ll have a crack at the Hawke’s Bay Group One and hopefully on to Australia,” owner Lib Petagna’s bloodstock manager Bruce Perry said. “She could go to Sydney for...

The Bostonian set to back up in Guineas

Tough New Zealand galloper The Bostonian (Jimmy Choux x Keepa Cheval) will contest next week's Gr.3 Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) after continuing his late winter carnival form with another win on Saturday. Trainer Tony Pike had high hopes for The Bostonian this winter but a series of setbacks meant he didn't make his Queensland debut until two weeks ago when he won the Listed Daybreak Lover Stakes (1200m) at Caloundra. "He drew some bad barriers and then when we were ready to race about five w...

Plenty of upside to Seas No Limit

Ocean Park three-year-old Seas No Limit (x Boundless) has plenty ahead of him according to jockey Linda Meech after their victory in the E-Cycle Solutions Jumps 28th June Maiden Plate (1600m) at Pakenham Park on Tuesday. The Matthew Ellerton and Simon Zahra-trained gelding was moderately away out of the gates to sit off the pace for the majority of the race. Meech drew him out four-wide at the turn of the straight where he began to lengthen and stormed home with 200m to go to nab Eira at th...

Spieth off to stud

The Group One performed Spieth has been retired to Aquis stud in the Hunter Valley for the upcoming breeding season. The son of Thorn Park was arguably unlucky not to finish his career a dual Group One winner after going down by the barest of margins in the 2016 Darley Classic (1200m) and the 2017 Black Caviar Lightning (1000m). “Spieth retires as one of the unluckiest sprinters in recent times,” Aquis CEO Shane McGrath said. “We will be committing 30 of our very best mares to Spieth, high...

Bostonian breaks through for QLD win

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike enjoyed a red-letter day at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday with a winning treble that included victory in the feature race, the Listed Daybreak Lover (1200m), with the Trelawney born and raised The Bostonian (Jimmy Choux x Keepa Cheval). Pike was delighted with the performance of his team, although disappointed he couldn’t be on-course. “I busted my wrist a couple of weeks ago and it needs a plate to be inserted Qin it,” he said. “They had me scheduled...

Speith to beat hoodoos in Stradbroke

Stud-bound Spieth (Thorn Park x Stella Livia) can break two hoodoos despite drawing the outside barrier in the Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap (1350m) at Doomben. The New Zealand-bred sprinter has been bought by the Aquis Farm Group to stand as a stallion next season and switched from trainer Bryce Heys to the David Hayes, Tom Dabernig and Ben Hayes Lindsay Park operation. He's had one run for the new stable, finishing fifth in the Group One Doomben 10,000 on May 12. Aquis is hoping Trelawney Stud grad...

NZB May Sale reaps positive results

The New Zealand Bloodstock May Sale proved to be a successful auction for Trelawney who ended the two-day event as fifth top vendor by average with their consignment of three weanlings and five broodmares. Lot 299, the Per Incanto x Ritzy Lady weanling colt, (pictured) was the top priced weanling of the second day when purchased by BR Bloodstock for $80,000.  The colt is the seventh foal out of Listed New Zealand St Leger (2500m) winner Ritzy Lady (Zabeel) whose only foal to race is the Me...

Vinevale ready for return

The Trelawney bred and part-owned Vinevale (Flying Spur x Eden Vale) is in good order to open a new campaign at Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. She will make her first appearance in the Mulcaster Bloodstock Mile (1600m) following a South Island venture, which resulted in a fourth placing in the Listed Timaru Cup (1600m). “She trialled at Te Awamutu the other day and she’s come through that very well,” said Jamie Richards, who trains the Flying Spur mare with Stephen Autridge. -NZ Racing De...

Ocean set to continue winning wave

Smart colt Ocean Knight (Ocean Park x The Iffraaj Dame) will have another chance to repay Lindsay Park for its patience in Wednesday’s Listed Anzac Day Stakes (1400m) at Flemington. Ocean Knight was a $115,000 yearling buy from Trelawney Stud’s 2017 New Zealand Bloodstock Draft that has always shown trainers David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig plenty of promise in between bouts of growing pains. “He just needed time,” Ben Hayes said. “He kept going a bit shinny and we kept putting him...

2018 Easter wrap-up

Trelawney Stud finished the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale with a 100% clearance rate with each of the six yearlings on offer sold. The top priced lot for the Cambridge based farm was the Exceed and Excel x Lady Sayyida filly (pictured) who was knocked down to Brendan and Jo Lindsay for $460,000.  As the first foal from a half-sister to Cox Plate winner Ocean Park this filly is not only an exciting racing prospect but one that holds great residual value. Lot 445, another by Darley’s popular ...

Caulfield rain a blessing for Reilmartini

Trainer Darren Weir was happy to see the heavy showers rain down on Caulfield and soften the track for Reilmartini (O'Reilly x Martini Red). Starting the day in the good range, rain began falling before the meeting while a heavy downpour before race two pushed the track into the soft range, ideal ground for Reilmartini by the time Saturday's Walk For Phil Handicap was run. Weir explained the three-year-old feels his knees and isn't suited by firm tracks. Registering his third win from four start...

Champagne day for Trelawney

Trelawney Stud enjoyed a stellar Saturday with a stakes double at Hastings following results to savour in Australia. The Cambridge nursery bred and races the Listed Royston Hospital Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m) winner Richie McHorse (Redoute's Choice x Boundless) and they share in the ownership of Indecision (Per Incanto x Yeah Nah), who boosted her value with victory in the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Finance Sprint (1200m). Stud graduates Ocean Knight (Ocean Park x The Iffraaj Dame) and Reilmar...

Ocean knight explosive in Caulfield debut

Ocean Knight (Ocean Park x The Iffraaj Dame) defied a betting drift to register an impressive debut win at Caulfield. Coming from back in the field, Ocean Knight stormed down the outside to take out the Wellington R.C Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. Drifting from $5 out to $8.50, Ocean Knight, under Regan Bayliss, raced away over the final 100m to defeat Sizzleme ($11) by 2-3/4 lengths with Dark Villain ($21) a long-neck away third. Ocean Knight was purchased by Lindsay Park and Champion Thoroughb...

Master of Arts gets Manion Cup

Jockey Damian Lane steered the Darren Weir-trained Master Of Arts (Mastercraftsman x Petit Verdot) to victory in the Gr.3 Manion Cup (2400m) at Rosehill on Saturday.   Trelawney Stud graduate Master Of Arts is on a path to the Sydney Cup and firmed from $101 to $15 for the 3200m Group One race after the Rosehill win. The six-year-old gelding travelled well midfield before working into the race strongly approaching the home turn. Lane peeled Master Of Arts ($8.50) into the clear inside the f...

Filly making up for lost time

Perroquet had an inglorious start to her career, but she’s quickly made up for a debut to forget. The Trelawney bred and owned daughter of Ocean Park and the Group One winner Pernod was pulled up in her first appearance and then finished fourth before an impressive last-start win. “She just never hit out that day at Matamata, it was a strange one, but then she was very good at Avondale and that gave us confidence that she would run well at Hastings,” said Andrew Scott, who trains with Lanc...

Distant Sky bolts in

Nigel Blackiston has been adamant for several weeks now that Distant Sky (Starcraft x More Than Adequate) has finally matured. As a five-year-old it has been a decent wait for connections, so Monday’s win at Ballarat was a well-earned reward for their patience and persistence. Distant Sky has been consistent throughout most of his career, with 15 top 5 placings in his 22 starts before Monday (one win and seven placings). However he had often been green and difficult to ride, turning his head o...

Talented youngster too strong in Sistema

Sword Of Osman (Savabeel x Bunyah) has taken pole position in the race for this season’s champion two-year-old honours. The slick son of Savabeel went to the top of the juvenile rankings when he produced another powerful front-running performance to win Saturday’s Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie off the back of his runaway success in the Gr.3 Reid & Harrison Slipper (1200m). Trained by Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards, Sword of Osman has now won three of his four starts with his ...

Grunt one to beat in Australian Guineas

Tough colt Grunt (O’Reilly x Ruqqaya) headlines Mick Price's trio of chances in Saturday's Australian Guineas (1600m), with the Caulfield trainer declaring he'll be tough to defeat in the Group One. "What he did to win in Adelaide shows he'll be hard to beat on Saturday and is right up there for me," Price said. "He's also showed he likes Flemington (winning the G3 C.S. Hayes Stakes last start) and he will relish the 1600m and is even looking for further." Grunt was sold for $220,000 from Trel...

Opie's pick puts them to the sword

Opie Bosson’s judgment was again emphasised at Matamata where Sword Of Osman distanced his rivals. Te Akau’s stable jockey tipped the son of Savabeel as a rare talent before the two-year-old had raced and his prediction has been on the money. Sword Of Osman was successful on debut before he was unplaced in the Karaka Million (1200m), but he was back in the winning groove on Saturday with an effortless victory in the Gr.3 Reid & Harrison Limited Slipper (1200m). He’s a really, really good h...

See if he can hit the right note with Anthem

Back from a four-month layoff, talented but unpredictable performer Olympic Anthem (StarCraft x Fire Song) will be teamed up for the first time with current leading apprentice jockey Troy See on Friday night. With regular partner Michael Rodd riding Constant Justice, trainer James Peters had to look elsewhere. Vlad Duric and Glen Boss are suspended while Nooresh Juglall, who won on Olympic Anthem before, could have been an option but he is sticking with exciting three-year-old Nowyousee. Peters ...