Tony Pike-trained gelding Sacred Elixir is a short priced favourite for the Group One $400,000 Herbie Dyke Stakes over 2000 metres here at Te Rapa on Saturday week.
While Stephen Marsh was putting his hand up at Karaka yesterday, stable foreman Rhys Mildon was saddling up another winner for the Cambridge stable at Te Teko.
International racing royalty made a first foray into the local bloodstock market at Karaka today when representatives of Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum purchased their first New Zealand bred yearling.
Hugh Bowman may have expressed some doubt, but punters weren’t listening when they crashed Camino Rocoso into second favourite for the Gr.1 Vodafone NZ Derby.
The high-flying Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman training partnership had just the one focus at Trentham on Saturday and that single minded determination paid off in spades when Nicoletta triumphed in the Gr. 3 Wellfield Desert Gold Stakes (1600m).
Chenille turned her summer around in style at Ellerslie today, heading a Tony Pike-trained quinella in the $100,000 Windsor Park Stud Karaka Stayers’ Cup.
After a heart-stopping victory over a stellar field in today’s $250,000 NZB Insurance Karaka 3YO Mile at Ellerslie, Volpe Veloce’s unbeaten record now stands at seven out of seven.