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Weekend runners 16.06.18

Good luck to the connections of the following Cm Graduates, running this weekend.AUSTRALIA SATURDAY -Rosehill Race 2 Ascot Restaurant Sale H. A$100000 1400m Lisdoonvarna (NZ) 2014 (F. by Super Easy-Axislass) (trainer: Ms A Turner & M Poletti)-Rosehill Race 9 Sydney's West App H., A$100000 1300m Manolo Blahniq (NZ) 2013 (G. by Jimmy Choux-Floramour) (trainer: A W Noonan) -Ipswich TC Race 4 Queensland Times Stayers H., A$101000 2150m Calypso Bay (NZ) 2012 (G. by High Chaparral-Alagant Satin) ...

Price predicts Boss resurgence

Mick Price is convinced his Caulfield Guineas winner Mighty Boss is far from finished as a racing prospect and expects the rising four-year-old to be a major player in the spring. Price said on Thursday that Mighty Boss had returned to his Caulfield stable and was thriving. "He's jumping out of his skin," Price said. "A stud deal was not done and (managing owner) Mr Yassen has decided to put the horse back into work and he's bright, bouncy and sound." Mighty Boss' racetrack future looked dim aft...

Monday Wrap Up 11.06.18

REPLAY: Roc De Bank runs a close third in the Foster Maintain 1400 at Te Rapa...

Weekend Runners 09.06.18

Good luck to the connections of the following Cm Graduates, running this weekend. AUSTRALIA SATURDAY - Doomben R1 Hinkler H. L, A$100823 1200m Kuro (NZ) 2011 (G. by Denman-Distinctive Lass) (trainer: J A O'Shea) - Flemington R5 Ken Cox H., A$100000 1000m Yesterday's Songs (AUS) 2010 (G. by Henrythenavigator-Sarah Vee) (trainer: M D Moroney) NEW ZEALAND SATURDAY  - Te Rapa Race 7 Foster Maintain H., NZ$35000 1400m Roc de Bank (NZ) 2012 (G. by Roc de Cambes-Flower Girl) (trainer: C J Wood) - ...

Filly ready to rock and roll

Curraghmore graduate Keltic Rockstar is in the right order to improve on her encouraging debut performance when she fronts up at New Plymouth. The Rock ‘n’ Pop filly, who was bred by Mrs S L Frost and Mrs R A Ramage, runs in the New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Pearl Series Race (1200m) on Thursday with part-owner and trainer Donald Caskey’s only reservation being the ground. “I’d like to see a Slow 7, but if it gets to heavy then my gut feeling is that she will probably cop it a ...

Monday Wrap Up - 04.06.18

Curraghmore had one winner on the weekend with New Zealand Bloodstock graduate Justice Glory (Fastnet Rock) successful in Singapore. Making her Singapore debut, the former Australian galloper marked her arrival with a bang when she took out the S$80,000 Perth Racing Trophy, a Class 3 race over 1200m on Sunday. A two-time winner at Sandown over 1200m and 1300m for Lindsay Park Racing, the Fastnet Rock three-year-old came off a ground-saving run on the rails in midfield to gun down the duelling pa...

Group One Winning Curraghmore Graduate to Stand at Stud

Queensland's Raheen Stud has secured exciting Fastnet Rock colt, Heroic Valour for stud duties. The only Group One-winning 2YO by Fastnet Rock at stud in Australia, Heroic Valour was an outstanding performer who won the Gr.1 ARC Diamond Stakes (1200m) in lightning fast time and would also ran third in the Gr.1 NZ Two Thousand Guineas (1600m). Indeed, the well related Heroic Valour was unbeaten as a 2YO, capturing the Listed Matamata Slipper (1200m) leading into the Gr.1 Diamond. Consistently r...

Monday Wrap Up 28.05.18

Curraghmore has two more winners on the board after limited runners on the weekend.The well-travelled Rodrico (High Chaparral) won his New Zealand debut for the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman stable at Hawera on Sunday in the Sandfords Rural Carriers 1600m.Bred in partnership by Roncon, Chelsaus and Wynaus Rodrico was purchased by Guy Mulcaster from Curraghmore's 2014 New Zealand Bloodstock draft for $235,000.  He was a multiple Australian winner and runner up in the Gr.1 Queensland D...

Weekend Runners 26.05.18

Good luck to the connections of Curraghmore graduates running this weekend:AUSTRALIA SATURDAY - Doomben Race 4 Lord Mayor's Cup,Gr.3, A$127531 1630m Ruettiger (NZ) 2011 (G. by Duporth-Be Inspired) (trainer: Ben Currie)- Gosford RC Race 8 Spackman Auto Centre H., A$29000 2600m Only Tiger (NZ) 2013 (G. by Rip Van Winkle-Sitting on a Hill) (trainer: J G Sargent) - Sandown Race 4 Australian Steeplechase, A$126500 3400m Entirely Perfect (NZ) 2009 (G. by Pentire-Clarissa) (trainer: B I Stanaway) SINGA...

Monday Wrap Up 21.05.18

Curraghmore had another successful Saturday with some great results coming in from both sides of the Tasman.Leading the charge was Lisdoonvarna (Super Easy), a three-year-old filly who was bred in partnership by Gordon Cunningham and Hallmark Stud.Lisdoonvarna was stepping down in class and raced up on the pace to beat the favourite Seaway (Ocean Park) who came from behind in the Poitrel Handicap (1400m) at Rosehill.It was her fifth career win from eight starts and she could now head n...

Lisdoonvarna bounces back in Rosehill win

Lisdoonvarna (Super Easy) has bounced back from an incident at Warwick Farm which threatened to derail her campaign with an impressive win at Rosehill on Saturday. The filly was a scratching 10 days ago after hurting herself when she lunged forward in the barrier and hit her head with co-trainer Amanda Turner crediting jockey Peter Wells for alerting the attendants. "They were just about to let the field go and Peter quickly realized she was not right," Turner said. "He knows her really well and...

This Weekends Runner 19/05/18

Good luck to the connections of the following Cm Graduates, running this weekend. AUSTRALIA SATURDAY ROSEHILL Race 2 Poitrel Hall of Fame H., A $98,000 1400m Lisdoonvarna (NZ) 2014 (F. by Super Easy-Axislass) (trainer: Ms A Turner & M Poletti)ROSEHILL Race 6 John Size Hall of Fame H., A$100,000 1100m Manolo Blahniq (NZ) 2013 (G. by Jimmy Choux-Floramour) (trainer: A W Noonan)DOOMBEN Race 7 BRC Sprint H. Gr.3, A$12,8607 1350m Ruettiger (NZ) 2011 (G. by Duporth-Be Inspired) (trainer: Ben Currie)GC...

Monday Wrap Up 14.05.18

Curraghmore graduates collected a few notable results over the weekend, following on from a successful two days of selling at Karaka. The stand out performance was the Curraghmore bred Touch of Silver (Guillotine) who blitzed his rivals at Rotorua to win the Van Dyks Furnishings 2200 by 14.5 lengths. The four-year-old had no wet form to date but made the running and looked the winner coming around the turn, though no one would have predicted that the success margin to be so extensive. It was the...

Weekend Runners 12.05.18

Good luck to the connections of the following Cm Graduates, running in feature races this weekend. AUSTRALIA SATURDAY- Doomben Race 3 Members' Handicap L, A$100633 1600m Ruettiger (NZ) 2011 (G. by Duporth-Be Inspired) (trainer: Ben Currie) - Doomben Race 7 The Roses Gr.2, A$180441 2000m Global Thinking (AUS) 2014 (F. by So You Think-Capital Raising) (trainer: S F Ritchie)- Scone Race 8 Ortensia Stakes L, A$151200 1100m Kuro (NZ) 2011 (G. by Denman-Distinctive Lass) (trainer: J A O'Shea)...

Sales topper heads to Australia

After purchasing the top lot on day one of New Zealand Bloodstock’s May Sale, Sydney-based bloodstock agent Andrew Williams repeated the same dose on day two when bidding to $180,000 to secure the top lot of the Sale. That title went to the Curraghmore consigned Mongolian Beauty (lot 371), a Fastnet Rock full-sister to Group Two winner Mongolian Falcon, who will stand at Willow Glen Stud for $3,000 + GST this coming breeding season. Williams was happy with his purchase, highlighting the three-...

Te Akau strike early at Karaka

Te Akau struck early in the opening session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s two-day May Sale when they went to $110,000 to secure Savabeel yearling filly Tam O’Shanter from the draft of Curraghmore. “She’s a beautiful filly, very typical of Savabeel,” said Jamie Richards, who trains in partnership with Stephen Autridge for the New Zealand operation. “We know a little bit about the family, we trained Piper and she was a very good filly. She had a little issue and we never really saw the b...

Top lot Sydney bound

Jason Abrahams of Champion Thoroughbreds went to $120,000 to secure the top lot in the yearling session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s May Sale. The daughter of Snitzel and the stakes-winning Stravinsky mare Tip The Wink was sold out of Curraghmore’s draft as lot 64 and will now head to John O’Shea’s Randwick stable. “She is quite an athletic filly, not overly big, but Snitzel himself is not overly big,” Abrahams said. “There is plenty of attitude to her, she’s out of a Stravinsky ...

Monday Wrap Up 07.05.18

Unfortunately there was no obvious joy on the weekend with race results, and so Curraghmore's focus turns to the Karaka auction ring with the first day on selling at New Zealand Bloodstock's May Sale getting underway today.Good luck to all the client's Curraghmore are selling on behalf of, there are some genuine prospects ready to go under the hammer.The farm has nine yearlings, 12 weanlings, two racehorses, and five broodmares on offer.  The draft is located in barn G and available for ins...

Roses test for Global Thinking

A question of class will be put to stakes winner Global Thinking at Doomben on Saturday week. “She’s going to run in the Roses to see if she can get 2000m and to find out if she’s competitive against the Australian fillies,” trainer Shaune Ritchie said. “There’s only one way to find out and she’s travelled over here beautifully. She’s a very kind filly. “She’s owned in Australia and the other option is to sell her here as a racehorse or broodmare. She’s by So You Think out...

Tulip to bloom with blinkers

Tulip will sport blinkers for the first time when she lines up in the Gr.1 UBET Classic (1200m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Lindsay Park co-trainer David Hayes expects the Curraghmore graduate to be the big improver in the race and is optimistic of her chances despite the three-year-old Pierro filly failing in Sydney last start and drawing barrier 18 in Adelaide. Hayes says the Group Three winning filly returned with ulcers from a Sydney campaign where she finished fifth in the Gr.1 Canterbury...

Weekend runners 05.05.18

RACING THIS WEEKEND: Good luck to the connections of the following Cm Graduates, running in feature races this weekend. ️Australia Saturday ️ - Morphettville Race 7 Sangster S. Gr.1, A$1002120 1200m Tulip (AUS) 2014 (F. by Pierro-Musidora) (trainer: D & B Hayes & T Dabernig) - Gold Coast Turf Club Race 4 Gold Coast Cup L, A$100000 1400m Ruettiger (NZ) 2011 (G. by Duporth-Be Inspired) (trainer: Ben Currie)...

Monday Wrap Up 30.04.18

It was another weekend of great results from Curraghmore graduates, showing consistency is an integral part of the farm’s success. The headline act was Distinctive Darci (Darci Brahma) who on Friday night charged home late to take out the Gr.2 Merlion Trophy (1200m) in a thrilling finish at the Kranji track in Singapore. Trainer Mark Walker’s decision to add blinker-pacifiers to the four-year-old gelding is reaping benefits with the Curraghmore graduate sporting a three from three record fol...

Distinctive Darci scores thriller in Merlion Trophy

Billed as an exciting sprint race worthy of a Group One label, the S$500,000 Gr.2 Merlion Trophy certainly lived up to that tag with Polytrack specialist Distinctive Darci charging late for a most thrilling win on Friday night. Former Singapore champion three-year-old Countofmontecristo was being hailed the winner when he hit the front halfway up the straight, but Distinctive Darci, who just grows another leg on Polytrack, unwound with a sustained finish for Vlad Duric on his inside to deny him ...

Weekend Runners 27.04.18

Good luck to the connections of the following Curragmore graduates running in feature races this weekend:SINGAPORE FRIDAY: Singapore TC Race 6 Merlion Trophy, Gr.2, S$500000 1200m Distinctive Darci (NZ) (2013) (G. by Darci Brahma-Distinctive Lass) (Trainer: M WALKER) AUSTRALIA SATURDAY: Hawkesbury RC Race 5 Gold Rush H. L, A$126400 1100m Kuro (NZ) (2011) (G. by Denman-Distinctive Lass) (Trainer: J A O'Shea)Hawkesbury RC Race 8 Hawkesbury Guineas Gr.3, A$201750 1400m Lisdoonvarna (NZ) (2014) (F. ...

Big smokie El Chapo gives Shafrizal perfect wedding present

Jackpot bells rang wild for the rare brave who had a flutter on big outsider El Chapo on Tuesday night, but for his rider Shafrizal Saleh, all he could hear at the end of the S$85,000 Restricted Maiden race (1200m) were wedding bells! The former Malaysian-based apprentice jockey ties the knot with his sweetheart Zairina on Friday. El Chapo was his sixth winner for the year – and no doubt the one he will remember a little better, having come in just a few days before his big day. “It’s a ni...