Last season’s Champion South Island apprentice jockey Yogesh Atchamah moved to Christchurch at the start of the year, and he is loving every moment.
It will be full-circle for 10-time Group One winner Imperatriz when she is offered at Magic Millions’ National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast next month.
The Kiwis hit early on the opening day of Warrnambool’s three-day May carnival, with the Mark Walker-trained Leaderboard winning the two-mile maiden hurdle on Tuesday in the hands of expat Kiwi jumps jockey Aaron Kuru.
Cody Cole will head to Ruakaka with a competitive selection of runners on Wednesday before chasing a black-type target closer to home over the weekend with Renovations.
Winter targets now await Group Three-winning sprinter Johny Johny following his pleasing trial at Te Awamutu on Tuesday.
Just twenty-four hours after the passing of Wexford Stables figurehead Dave “DJ” O’Sullivan, the New Zealand training icon would have been looking down on Te Rapa with a beaming smile as promising filly I’munstoppable led from go to whoa to capture the Gr.3 Inglis Sales Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) for the Matamata operation.
Classy sprinter Wewillrock was a winner and black-type placegetter in Sydney last winter, and a return to Australia is looming large on his horizon after an easy win in Saturday’s Carpet Maintenance & Cleaning (1200m) at Wanganui.
Jockey Lachlan Neindorf celebrated a Group One milestone as he guided Zoustar mare Climbing Star to the pair’s first Group One victory in the Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville.
Two weeks after finishing second to Sumi at the previous Te Rapa meeting, Freeze Frame reversed that result in Saturday’s rematch with the talented Taranaki raider.
A pair of regally-bred fillies featured in the finish of the Cambridge Raceway 2YO (1200m) on Saturday at Te Rapa, with Thooza coming out on top on debut over Sister Cynane.
