ORMOND ROAD GALLANT IN WARSTEP STAKES DEFEAT
Tony Bambry’s filly Ormond Road was very brave in just failing to hold out the Murray and Bjorn Baker filly Fast Love in the recent Warstep Stakes run at Christchurch on April 16th. Ormond Road had to come around runners turning for home and reached the lead just on straightening but could not hold of the challenge of Fast Love going down by a short neck in the final strides. This is a link to the race. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7zdadJNNjM
Third was the well bred So Devine who is a full sister to the good horse Monaco Consul. The time for the race was one and a half seconds quicker than the other to races on the day including the Group 3 Canterbury Gold Cup showing the quality of the first three fillies home.
3 Muscateer's from Karaka 20X 12 Feb 2010
After a very strong start to this years Karaka Premier sale, it continued through to the Select and even Festival sales aswell. Australian buyers were in full force in both Premier and Select and both vendors and buyers seemed happy with the results.
Tony was able to secure 3 very nice geldings, all from the select sale.
Lot 542 - Reset x Millie
Lot 959 - Perfectly Ready x Drama
Lot 1070 - Perfectly Ready x Isodara
Sucessful Ready to Run for 2009 1 Dec 2009
With a pleasing breeze up effort for both of our geldings, the market at this years sale was to determine alot for everyone selling and buying at the 2009 NZB Ready to Run sale.
After alot of inspections, our two boys were as ready as they were ever going to be, and it was upto the buyers.
Lot 212 - High Chaparral x Coochicoochie Coo
This impressive individual proved very popular, as his sire was one that was very sought after. He was sold to the Moroney camp for $170'000 and will do all his racing in Australia.
Lot 229 - One Cool Cat x Desert Music
Another impressive individual that showed a bit of speed in his ealry work was knocked down to Seoul Racehorse Owners Association (Korea)for $22'500
TREADMILL GETS GROUP 1 RESULT 30 Nov 2009
Regular user of the Manawatu Water Treadmill EILEEN DUBH pulled off a very gutsy win in the Group 1 Levin Classic (27th November 2009).
The Francis Finnegan trained Storm Creek filly returned to racing with a bang after being upset in the gates in the Thousand Guineas two weeks prior and finishing behind midfield. Francis utilised the Water Treadmill facilities in Eileen's recovery from the trip south, in her lead up to the Levin Classic in conjunction with her normal raceday preparation.
Eileen also pretrains on the Manawatu Water Treamill aswell as being a frequent user during her race day prep.
WELL DONE TEAM EILEEN!!!