#Tony Rider

Hastings trainer Guy Lowry's deliberate plan to keep a low profile with his team of horses during the unseasonal wet spring and early summer is now starting to pay dividends. Lowry, who has more than 25 horses in work, went several weeks without having a runner in the early spring as he did not want to put pressure on his team in testing track…

Jockey Mereana Hudson has Hastings-trained Rum clear of his rivals as they reach the finish line in the Rating 65 race over 1400m at Woodville last Tuesday. It was the horse's first win for more than two years. Photo / Supplied Hastings trainer Patrick Campbell produced a masterstroke when he got Rum to return to winning form after an absence of…

The Chosen One will be the only New Zealand-trained runner in this year's Melbourne Cup and will be trying to make up for an unlucky ninth in last year's race. There is likely to be one New Zealand-trained horse and as many as six New Zealand-bred horses in next Tuesday's A$8million Melbourne Cup. The most prestigious handicap race in the southern…