Strong Report - White Robe Lodge Champions Day Otago Racing Club meeting at Wingatui, February 2, 2019. Trudy Thornton, who has had a remarkable career as a jockey. Weather, fine; track, good (3); rail, true position. Race 1 Wingatui Function Centre Maiden, $20,000, 1400m Trudy Thornton rode Mowenna to win...
Strong Report - Boxing Day 2018 Residential (Gosen Jogoo) returns to wining form on her favourite track Otago Racing Club meeting at Wingatui, December 26, 2018. Weather, fine; track, good (3); rail, our 3m from 1400m, cutaway from 300m. Race 1: Otago Packaging Supplies, $30,000, rating 82, 1600m Residential regained...
STRONG REPORT – WINGATUI Dante Fire (Jacob Lowry) returns to scale after her maiden win 14th December, 2018 Otago Racing Club meeting at Wingatui, December 14, 2018. Weather, fine; track, dead (4), good (3) from race 6; rail, true position. Race 1: Speight’s Maiden, $10,000, 2200m Dante Fire, the first...
Owner-trainer Rodd McKenzie and leading apprentice Corey Campbell after a maiden win at Cromwell on Sunday Strong Report - Cromwell Otago Racing Club meeting at Cromwell, December 2, 2018. Weather, fine; track, good (3); rail, true position. Race 1: Otago Farm Machinery Maiden, $10,000, 1400m The De Boy justified his...
Weather, fine; track, slow (8); rail, true position. Race 1: Mouse Kennedy, rating 72, $11,000, 1600m Swing Note won comfortably. The 4yr-old Encosta De Lago mare, who won her previous start fresh up at Ashburton, is trained at Matamata by Jamie Richards for the Te Akau Jazz syndicate. She was...
Weather, fine; track, heavy (11); rail, true position. Race 1: Wairepo Hereford Stud Maiden Hurdle, $10,000, 2750m. Doctor Eden, having his first start as a jumper, prevailed by a nose. Gary Walsh settled Doctor Eden in third place despite the gelding racing keenly. Doctor Eden shared the lead at the...
Former Wingatui trainer Arthur ''Mick'' Didham will be remembered as an astute horseman and a pioneering campaigner of horses in Australia. The former trainer and jockey died in Dunedin on Tuesday, aged 86. The Didham family have made an incredible mark on Wingatui racing. So, too, have the Anderton family....
Weather, fine; track, heavy (11), rail, true position. Race 1: Central Southland and Freight Hurdle, $10,000, maiden, 2750m. Speedy Jax won narrowly at his sixth start over hurdles. Ridden by Hamish McNeill, he trailed the pacemaker Paddy Owen, came to the fore at the last fence and lasted by a...
1 Central Southland Freight Mdn Hurdle 12.01pm 2 Wairepo Hereford Stud Open Hurdle 12.36pm 3 Brocklebanks Dry Cleaners R85 2200m 1.11pm 4 No Limits Interiors R75 1200m 1.51pm 5 GO Healthy NZ Mdn 1400m 2.24pm 6 Bowel Cancer New Zealand R65 1400m 2.59pm 7 Wild Range Photography Open 1400m 3.34pm...
Weather, fine; track, slow (7), rail, out 4m from 1400m to 300m, followed by cutaway rail. Race 1: Taieri Colts Maiden, $10,000, 800m Cabernet won in dashing style. She trailed the leaders, surged along the inner in the home straight and won by four and a quarter lengths. Hiho fought...
