Double delight for Will Gordon with chances in Great Northern features

Proud part-owner Peter Grieve leads The Cossack and a happy jockey Aaron Kuru back to the winner's stall following the horse's success in last Saturday's Great Northern Hurdle Prominent Hawke's Bay thoroughbred owner/breeder Peter Grieve celebrated one of the most special wins from his long career in racing when The Cossack took out last Saturday's…

Amanood Lad and jockey Aaron Kuru fly the water jump on their way to winning last Saturday's $50000 Pakuranga Hunt Cup Steeplechase at Ellerslie. Hastings trainer Paul Nelson has won most of New Zealand's major jumping races but achieved something new when he produced Amanood Lad to win last Saturday's $50000 The Tractor Centre Pakuranga Hunt Cup…

The jumping roadshow stops at Hastings today with the running of five jumping races including the AHD Hawke's Bay Steeplechase and the Te Whangai Romney's Hawke's Bay Hurdle. Although the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase is light on numbers, it certainly does not lack quality. The race includes top class chaser, Wise Men Say, who heads the weights, recent…

No one who saw the 1967 Great Northern Steeplechase will ever forget the incredible win of Eiffel Tower over Ringlock at Ellerslie. Today's running of Ellerslie jumping feature sure to provide its own tale of drama and horsemanship. The scene is Ellerslie Racecourse, two weeks ago today, the men's toilet in the members' grandstand. It's 30 minutes…

Snap Decision leads early in Lonesome Glory. (Tod Marks Photo) National Steeplechase Association Release They don't call the Far Hills Races steeplechasing's championship day for nothing, and this year there's little doubt that titles will be won or lost on Saturday at Moorland Farm in the bucolic borough in Somerset County, N.J. And that includes…

Will Gordon had a Sunday to remember at Coleraine, taking out three of the five races over the obstacles and then notching a win on the flat as well. It was a significant day for the Englishman, who has established successful riding careers both over the jumps and on the flat since his move Down Under in 2018. He won Races 1, 3, 4 and 8 on Platinum…

Steven Pateman rides Zed Em to victory in the Grand Annual Steeplechase Picture: Jake Nowakowski Rivals can expect jockey Steven Pateman to be as formidable as ever during jumps racing's version of Melbourne Cup week at Warrnambool. Jumps racing will provide showpiece contests on all three days of the carnival, starting with Tuesday's $175000…

All the leading contenders for the Randox Grand National have stood their ground at the five-day declaration stage for Saturday's big race at Aintree. A maximum field of 40 looks assured for the £1million showpiece, with Corach Rambler heading the market for Lucinda Russell. Here's our guide to the horses you Last year's winner and recent Gold Cup…

TRIBUTE: Veteran jumps trainer Eric Musgrove (pictured) has paid tribute to Collingwood great Bill Picken. Picture: Morgan Hancock VETERAN jumps trainer Eric Musgrove was shocked to hear of the sudden passing of Collingwood great Bill Picken at Hamilton on Saturday. Picken, 66, who played 212 games of VFL-AFL footy, received numerous accolades from…

William McCarthy has only been a regular in Australian form guides for a little more than a year but he has already built a feature-race CV many jumps jockeys with decades experience would be jealous of. The Irishman on Sunday won a stirring edition of the $350000 Grand National Steeplechase (4500m) aboard the Paul Preusker-trained St Arnicca at…

This Thursday marks four weeks until the Warrnambool May Racing Carnival and D-day is looming regarding whether Gold Medals makes a historic 10th appearance at the jumps extravaganza. Trainer Symon Wilde will in the next week get serious with the 12-year-old's work to determine whether he attempts to defend his Grand Annual Steeplechase crown. The…

Lightly raced jumper Eion provided an ominous warning to his potential ARC Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) rivals when he took out an action packed CLC Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4200m) at Te Aroha on Sunday. The Pakuranga Hunt Cup is the major lead-up race to the Great Northern and the Ken Duncan-trained Eion looked spot on for his upcoming challenge…

Born in Ireland, where has won more than 100 races riding over jumps, Sean McDermott has enjoyed similar success on the steeplechase circuit since coming to the United States. He has ranked in the top five in both races and money won every year since 2015, twice leading the country in purses earned. Yet even that success didn't prepare the…

WINNING FEELING: Liam Hoy and Symon Wilde celebrate Gold Medals' remarkable victory in the Grand Annual Steeplechase. Picture: Chris Doheny Vic Douglas trained three Waterfront by Lyndoch Living Grand Annual Steeplechase winners and never shed a tear. But the waterworks came before his son, jockey Clayton, crossed the finished line aboard champion…

Jockey Clayton Douglas has a chance to be part of a Warrnambool legend with Gold Medals on Thursday. Picture: AAP Star jockey Jamie Kah gets the plaudits most weeks but her fiance Clayton Douglas is set to relish his time in the limelight during the three-day carnival at Warrnambool this week. Both Kah and Douglas will be in action at Warrnambool…

Jockey James Reveley discussed his life In France, moving to France from the UK, his rides at Auteuil tomorrow as well as a horse who's running there that he's ridden before and a horse for next year on the latest episode of our From the Horse's Mouth podcast. I just came over for a summer holiday really and absolutely loved it. That was a while…

Champ (4-1) came with a late thrust to win the RSA Insurance Novices' Chase in the shadow of the post on the second day of the 2020 Cheltenham Festival. The Nicky Henderson-trained eight-year-old - named after retired multiple jumps champion Sir Tony McCoy - made up plenty of ground, under Barry Geraghty to go through the gap between two…

Young jockey Emily Farr is proud to take on the boys in Saturday's Great Northern features at Ellerslie. "Being the only girl riding in the races adds a little bit of pressure but I'm looking forward to it," Farr said. These are no ordinary races. They are tough, energy-sapping affairs especially the 6400m Great Northern Steeplechase, around eight…

Kuru, 25, is around 500 rides into his blossoming career highlighted by Prologue's Waikato Hurdles win. Nowadays in Cambridge, he began his career in Hastings working for Patrick Campbell and then John Bary. He originally started out as an amateur rider before taking out a professional licence and has kicked home 42 winners. At Ellerslie this…

Rathbone will make a return to race riding when she partners Mahanadi in the Great Northern Hurdles and Harrison owns leading Great Northern Steeplechase contender Snodroptwinkletoes. Both horses are trained by Kevin Myers. Rathbone, 35, has not ridden over fences since finishing third in the 2014 Grand National Steeplechase on Roodyvoo. The only…

The New Plymouth trainer will be listening from afar as Tobouggie Nights tackles the $75000, 5500m feature around the Trentham figure-eight course. Wheeler is in Scotland and will be a spectator at the British Open golf tournament at St Andrews next week. He is a part-owner of Tobouggie Nights and while the Wellington Steeplechase prize money will…

That was in the 2012 Great Norther Steeplechase when 20-year-old Phelan's fledgling jumps riding career got a major boost through the deeds of the then sprightly eight-year-old jumper. It was a watershed season for Phelan as Tom's Myth struck career best form and won the northern after earlier winning the Grant Plumbing Wellington Steeplechase and…

Trainer and co-owner John Wheeler wasn't interested in hearing about how he was a genius to have turned around the form of a horse who had finished only two of his five jumps races this season and not won a race for nearly two and a half years. The master jumps trainer turned his interviewer straight on to the real reason Tobouggie Nights got a…

It was Platinum Spirit first, daylight second, at Coleraine last start. Platinum Spirit has opened favourite as he attempts to end the jumping season in Victoria on a high at Ballarat on Sunday. The seven-year-old is a $2.80 top fancy in the fixed odds market for the third race on a programme that features the A$400000 Grand National…