Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The news out of New Zealand is that, as we predicted on the weekend, Sharp ‘N’ Smart’s Melbourne Spring campaign is over. Owner Merv Butterworth has confirmed that while a full physical inspection of the star horse on Monday revealed no physical abnormalities or injuries, comprehensive blood tests have revealed that the NZ Horse of […]
With only a few possible exceptions, the Cup entrants this year appear pretty well weighted all round. Gold Trip has been given the grandstand to carry but deserves it. On the strength – or more correctly, weakness – of his two thrashings in the All Star Mile and the Queen Elizabeth in the Autumn at […]
This is Sharp ‘N’ Smart galloping with a stablemate between races at Te Rapa on Saturday. He ran sub 36 seconds for his last 600, going at a hand canter. Goodness, gracious me. How good does Merv’s superstar look at the start of his road to the Melbourne Spring Carnival? I don’t think there has […]
The handicaps for the Cairns Cup were released yesterday, and baby it’s game on, Namazu has been given 61kg, and he deserves it too, for this Ricky Vale trained horse that we call Big Zu after Kostya and Tim is brilliant, far better than the city slickers in the south could ever imagine. This is […]
Flash … Aah! Winner of, the Cairns Cup! I was wrong. Sort of. I said that Super Heroes can carry the grandstand. They can. But not 2nd, even with an absolute pearler of a ride by Ash Butler. Flash Aah got beaten a short half head, by a horse that it gave 10 kilos to. […]
Racing clubs in Victoria, New South Wales and Hong Kong are wooing Horse of the Year-in-waiting Sharp ’N’ Smart as trainers Graeme and Debbie Rogerson map out a multi-million dollar campaign aimed at the Melbourne Cup. Sharp ’N’ Smart earned $3 million as a three-year-old, a tally which should see him voted the country’s top […]
The mail from across the ditch is that the all conquering 9 times Group 1 winning Kiwi rider Ryan Elliott is squarely in the frame to ride the soon to be 4YO sensation Sharp N Smart throughout his Australian assignments in the spring. Unless Elliott makes an urgent booking to spend a week with the […]
Reg Fleming, the greatest trainer there never was Re: Cummings. I think Reg Fleming is a genius. Nigel Blackiston is still battling along, and Leon Corstens could never get the mix right once he departed the kennel. Never thought it had much to do with the Cummings really at all. And I grew up next […]
Sharp ‘N’ Smart is deep in the running for the title of New Zealand’s horse of the year and if his trainer Graeme Rogerson’s winter impressions of him are correct, more elite gongs could await the rising four-year-old in the spring in Melbourne. Rogerson said from New Zealand last week that there are any number […]
What you see above appeared in a story on Racenet yesterday about Chris Waller taking up 20 boxes at Macedon Lodge to prepare his Melbourne Cup hopefuls. Lloyd Williams prepared 3 of his Melbourne Cup winners from the Lodge it says: Efficient, Green Moon and Almandin. That’s news to me and most punters, and I […]
