Horse Racing: Great Northern Steeplechase

Eion sends warning to Great Northern rivals

Summarized by: Live Sports Direct
 
Eion sends warning to Great Northern rivals

Eion won the CLC Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4200m) at Te Aroha on Sunday. Ken Duncan's horse is preparing for the Great Northern Steeplechase in a fortnight. Zartan finished second, Te Kahu third and Lacustre fourth. Dr Hank won RMS Contracting Open Hurdle (3100m). English Gambler set up a breakneck speed and was chased by Dr. Hank. Shamal pulled up okay and will also contest the race. The event could be held at Ellerslie. It's possible the venue will be used for a meeting if wet conditions are allowed.

IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Northern CLC Pakuranga Hunt Cup Dr Hank
Play Bruce Lee Dragons Tale Slot
Recommended Slot Game To Play: Bruce Lee Dragons Tale Slot
BetOnline Casino 50% up to $1,000 Signup Bonus
Related
Racing: Great Northern win a huge thrill for Hawke's Bay owner Peter Grieve

Racing: Great Northern win a huge thrill for Hawke's Bay owner Peter Grieve

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…
Horse Racing
Racing: Paul Nelson nails Ellerslie first with Amanood Lad

Racing: Paul Nelson nails Ellerslie first with Amanood Lad

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…
Horse Racing
MyBookie
Racing: It's Perry Mason

Racing: It's Perry Mason

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…
Horse Racing: Great Northern Steeplechase
Racing: 60 years later Brooks family salute

Racing: 60 years later Brooks family salute

Many think it would be a great achievement to live to age 80. It would be a much, much greater thing to be 80 and look like Jim Hely. Sixty years to the day on Saturday, Jim Hely rode what was to be the first of the countless steeplechase winners, Sandy, that made him possibly the greatest jumps rider this country has seen. Appropriately that was…
Horse Racing: Great Northern Steeplechase
BetOnline Casino

50% up to $1,000 Signup Bonus

Get the latest betting odds & lines for NFL Futures at BetOnline Sportsbook for betting on your favorite sport and snag a huge sign-up bonus.
IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Northern CLC Pakuranga Hunt Cup Dr Hank
Racing: The race of many great memories

Racing: The race of many great memories

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…
Horse Racing: Great Northern Steeplechase
John Jenkins: Hawke’s Bay owner breeds another good jumper

John Jenkins: Hawke’s Bay owner breeds another good jumper

Galileo Invader (right) jumps to the front at the last fence in a maiden hurdle race at Woodville last week. The Hastings-owned and trained gelding raced clear in the run to the line to win by 1-1/2 lengths. Hawke's Bay owner-breeder Ivan Grieve has let one top jumper slip through his hands, but he might have another one coming on after Galileo…
Horse Racing
Paul Nelson chalks up sixth Great Northern Hurdles victory

Paul Nelson chalks up sixth Great Northern Hurdles victory

Hastings trainer Paul Nelson further enhanced his record as an astute conditioner of jumpers when he chalked up his sixth Great Northern Hurdles success at Te Rapa last Saturday. Nelson, who nowadays trains in partnershipwith Corrina McDougal, produced Nedwin to take out the 4120m feature to give him a sixth win in the race and the third since he…
Horse Racing
Racing: Uncharted territory for trainer Paul Nelson with two superstars at Te Rapa

Racing: Uncharted territory for trainer Paul Nelson with two superstars at Te Rapa

Champion jumps trainer Paul Nelson admits he is heading into somewhat uncharted territory when two of his superstars race for the second time in just four days at Te Rapa today. Today's meeting signals the start of the elite flat racing for the season with the $150000 Waikato Stud Foxbridge Plate featuring some of our better gallopers, headlined by…
Horse Racing
RELATED LOCATION
Country
United Kingdom
Happy Star Impresses With Riccarton Win Ahead Of Grand National

Happy Star Impresses With Riccarton Win Ahead Of Grand National

Outstanding hurdler Happy Star showed he was at peak fitness to defend his Hospitality NZ Grand National Hurdles (4200m) crown next weekend when he cruised away to win the traditional lead-up event at Riccarton on Saturday, the Avon City Ford Sydenham Hurdles (3100m). With leading jumps jockey Shaun Fannin in the saddle, the Kevin Myers-trained…
Horse Racing: Grand National
Oxygen’s win breath of fresh air for Bay owner-breeder

Oxygen’s win breath of fresh air for Bay owner-breeder

Waipukurau thoroughbred owner-breeder Steve Ellis celebrated his first success on the racetrack for more than 18 months when Oxygen took out the $20000 maiden hurdle race at Te Rapa last Saturday. Ellis bred and ownsthe Citi Habit gelding who was recording his second win, his first coming in a 1600m maiden race at Matamata in December 2021. Oxygen…
Horse Racing
Watch 📺 San Remo becomes a Grand National hero

Watch 📺 San Remo becomes a Grand National hero

Trainer Dane Smith could not have asked for a better birthday present than the one San Remo presented at Sandown. As Smith contemplated birthday celebrations after turning 53 on Sunday, San Remo stormed home to claim the Grand National Hurdle (4200m) at Sandown to give the trainer his biggest success. Smith did win the Listed Ballarat Cup with…
Horse Racing: Grand National
Rachael Cunningham in search for next Junior

Rachael Cunningham in search for next Junior

Rachael Cunningham could talk for hours about stable star Bee Tee Junior. The recently turned 12-year-old heads to the Grand National Hurdle (4200m) at Sandown on Sunday as a prelude to the Grand National Steeplechase (4500m) at Ballarat on August 27. If successful for a second time in the Grand National Steeplechase, Cunningham would consider…
Horse Racing: Grand National
RELATED CATEGORIES
Category Icon
Category
Horse Racing: Great Northern Steeplechase
Category Icon
Category
Horse Racing
Category Icon
Category
Horse Racing: Grand National
Racing: Nelson/McDougal stable continues amazing run of form

Racing: Nelson/McDougal stable continues amazing run of form

The jumping juggernaut of the early winter, Hastings trainers Paul Nelson and Corrina McDougal continued their successful roll last weekend by taking out two of the feature races at the Waikato meeting at Te Rapa. The red-hot combination produced star hurdler The Cossack to win his steeplechasing debut in the $20000 Ken and Roger Browne Memorial…
Horse Racing
Racing: Aaron Kuru looks to work wonders

Racing: Aaron Kuru looks to work wonders

Improving track conditions and a clean bill of health for Great Northern Hurdle favourite Nedwin have boosted jockey Aaron Kuru's chances of a jumping double at Te Rapa on Sunday. The two biggest jumps races on the New Zealand calendar, the $150000 Great Northern Hurdle and the Steeplechase for the same money, are run away from Ellerslie, which no…
Horse Racing
Horse racing: Kiwi-breds dominate Warrnambool jumping features

Horse racing: Kiwi-breds dominate Warrnambool jumping features

Flying Agent (NZ) ridden by Lee Horner jumps on his way to winning the Hammonds Paints Thackeray Steeplechase at Warrnambool. Photo / Racing Photos. Trainer Amy McDonald, rider Lee Horner and their banner horse Flying Agent gained compensation for last year's Thackeray Steeplechase (3450m) defeat by winning the latest edition of the 3450m race at…
Horse Racing
Racing: Golfing restrictions put in place following dramatic scenes

Racing: Golfing restrictions put in place following dramatic scenes

The days of golf and racing mixing at Ellerslie are over. Because after Saturday's dramatic scenes during the iconic $125000 Great Northern Steeplechase, the pitch and putt course inside the racetrack will have now restrictions during steeplechase races. The Auckland Racing Club has move quickly to stop any possible repeat of the scenes from…
Golf
Velka Pardubicka, the Worlds' Greatest Challenge

Velka Pardubicka, the Worlds' Greatest Challenge

Not even COVID can dampen the spectacle of European cross-country steeplechasing with the 130th Velka Pardubicka to be run on Sunday 11 October at Pardubice, in the Czech Republic. Often called the Czech Grand National, the'Pardubicka' consists of 31 fences with such names as the Irish Bank, English Jump, Big Water Jump, with the Great Taxis Ditch…
Horse Racing: Velká pardubická
Emily Farr takes on the boys in Great Northern jumping races

Emily Farr takes on the boys in Great Northern jumping races

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…
Horse Racing
Aaron Kuru would love to make a memorable Great Northern debut

Aaron Kuru would love to make a memorable Great Northern debut

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…
Horse Racing
Jo Rathbone and Simon Harrison seeking Great Northern double

Jo Rathbone and Simon Harrison seeking Great Northern double

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…
Horse Racing
Tom's Myth and Shaun Phelan hope to step back in time

Tom's Myth and Shaun Phelan hope to step back in time

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…
Horse Racing
Tobouggie Nights claims Pakuranga Hunt Cup

Tobouggie Nights claims Pakuranga Hunt Cup

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…
Horse Racing
  • 18 plus
  • eCogra
  • Trusted Site
  • Game Care