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Lim's Kosciuszko brings up winning hattrick

Hot favourite Lim’s Kosciuszko still kept his unbeaten record intact with a third consecutive win in as many starts in Singapore on Saturday.Graduating to open company in the S$50,000 Cash Luck 2013 Stakes, a Class 4 Division 2 race over 1200m after two wins in Restricted Maiden and Novice company (also over six furlongs), the Kermadec three-year-old was widely expected to score again nonetheless, as reflected by his ultra-short odds of $6, but Hotshots Slam (Krisna Thangamani) certainly gave ...

Well-bred filly on offer

Trelawney Stud will offer regally-bred filly Acquisition at the upcoming Magic Millions Broodmare Sale. The three-year-old daughter of Fastnet Rock will go through the ring as Lot 711 when consigned by Segenhoe Stud in the Race Mares and Fillies section. Raced by Trelawney Stud’s Brent and Cherry Taylor and Tim & Karen Bodie out of the stable of Stephen Marsh, Acquisition was placed in her two trial starts before finishing unplaced in her only race day start to date. “She is a lovely big, st...

Fortified strengthens Derby prospects

Ocean Park three-year-old Fortified (NZ) raced into Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) contention with an effortless win at Ipswich on Wednesday over 2210m. The Chris Waller-trained gelding notched his third career victory from six starts and is raced by several of Waller’s most prominent owners, including Peter Tighe who was on-course to take in the four-length triumph over Mt Mort Shark (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle). “He’s a really promising horse that is a late bloomer by Ocean Park,” stable repr...

Beauden seeking more Cup glory

Beauden will be out to end his season on a high when he heads to Rotorua on Saturday. The Team Rogerson-trained gelding has won four of his last six starts, including the Gr.2 Awapuni Gold Cup (2000m) and Gr.3 Canterbury Gold Cup (2000m), and showed he was up to the best in New Zealand when placing fourth behind Melody Belle in the Gr.1 Bonecrusher NZ Stakes (2000m) in March. “The track was a little bit chippy (at Riccarton last start), he didn’t like it, but he showed how good he is,” sai...

Two Illicit to make Australian debut

Roger James is excited to be back on Australian soil for the first time in 18 months. The trans-Tasman travel bubble has allowed the Cambridge trainer to travel to Sydney with stable runner Two Illicit, and soon to be Queensland for a three-race campaign. It is Two Illicit’s first trip across the Tasman and James said the four-year-old mare is not the best traveller. “I wouldn’t say she is the most relaxed traveller, she does stress a bit travelling and it is made worse this year because w...

Beauden at his best in Riccarton victory

North Island raiders Beauden and Hypnos fought out a thrilling finish to the feature event at Riccarton on Saturday, the Gr.3 Coca Cola Canterbury Gold Cup (2000m). The team Rogerson-trained Beauden, who was born and raised at Trelawney Stud for owner-breeder Joan Egan, was sent out a hot favourite for the contest off the back of an effortless win in the Gr.2 Awapuni Gold Cup (2000m) earlier in the month. However, Cambridge visitor Hypnos wasn’t about to hand over the victory without a fight w...

Elliot prepared for another Beauden blitz

The ease of Beauden's last-start win in the Gr.2 Awapuni Gold Cup (2000m) even surprised his biggest fan, jockey Ryan Elliot. Not because Elliot didn't think the six-year-old Bullbars gelding was capable of producing such a compelling performance but because he did it on a track wetter than he prefers. Elliot heads to Riccarton on Saturday to ride Beauden in the Gr.3 Coca-Cola Canterbury Gold Cup (2000m) and with conditions set to remain in the dead range, the Hamilton jockey doesn't expect to b...

New appointment at Trelawney Stud

Callum Jones has been appointed as the new Stud Manager for Trelawney Stud. Jones takes on the role after Kevin Walls stepped down after 22 years of service to pursue a new challenge. Formerly the Head of Operations at Westbury Stud’s Matamata farm, Jones brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the role. After starting out in the thoroughbred industry at Cambridge Stud as a 16-year-old, Jones has developed his career through roles with trainer David Hayes in Australia, Coolmore Stud in ...

Nathan Trumper - Blog 3

Another busy month has gone by with plenty of stud work and assignments being completed. Spring has well and truly turned up now, the weather is starting to get warmer and the days are getting longer. The horses are enjoying the lush spring grass that grows so well here due to the farms’ exceptional soil fertility.  Like New Zealand, Ireland is similar in the weather. It can change in a blink of an eye. Sunny and warm one day and sleety snow falling the next, it can be very cold. It has ...

Two Illicit makes pleasing return

Roger James couldn’t have been happier with the return to racing of high-quality mare Two Illicit at Te Rapa last Saturday. The issue now is to see if there are any autumn targets for her to chase. One of the best three-year-olds last season, Two Illicit won on her return to racing as a four-year-old before finishing just behind the placings in both the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) and the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2000m). However, injury kept her off the track throughout summer, and her effort...

Concert Hall touches down in Sydney

Astute trainer Roger James has every confidence that his top mare Concert Hall will stay 3200m in Sydney this autumn. Concert Hall, who was born and raised at Trelawney Stud for owner-breeder Joan Egan, arrived in Sydney on Monday for a two-race campaign, which takes in the Gr.2 Chairman’s Quality (2600m) on April 10 and the Gr.1 Sydney Cup (3200m) a week later. Concert Hall’s career has mainly been focused on distances between 1600m and 2100m, where she has won six of her 16 starts, includi...

Course specialist shines in Awapuni Gold Cup

Awapuni has been the happiest of hunting grounds for Beauden, who returned to his favourite track on Saturday for a career-best victory in the Gr.2 City of Palmerston North Awapuni Gold Cup (2000m). It was the 11th win of a 36-start career for the Bullbars gelding who was born and raised at Trelawney Stud for breeder-owner Joan Egan.Beauden has been near-unbeatable at Awapuni – eight of his victories have come from only 10 appearances at the Palmerston North track, including the last two editi...

Cheaperthandivorce to take a break

The Trelawney Stud owned Cheaperthandivorce will head to the spelling paddock and won’t be seen again this season despite finding the line well for fourth in the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) last Saturday. “She is a little frail filly that is still getting there. She is still learning how to race and was checking her way out of gaps rather than taking them,” co-trainer Roger James said. “It is just a matter of maturity and she is going out until next season. “She was going to run eig...

Trelawney graduate wins on debut in Singapore

Lim's Kosciuszko made the perfect start to his racing career on Saturday winning in Singapore. The Kermadec three-year-old rallied under jockey Danny Beasley’s urgings to stave the fast-improving Elliot Ness off at the 300m of the $75,000 Restricted Maiden race over 1200m. Race by  Singapore’s multiple-champion owner Mr Lim Siah Mong, Lim's Kosciuszko was bred by Trelawney Stud and though passed in as a two-year-old at the Ready To Run Sales, was sold privately after winning his first a...

Prise De Fer posts win on Derby Day

Prise De Fer was back at his winning best on Derby Day at Ellerslie taking out the Henley Park Open (1500m).The son of Savabeel had previously won the Gr.2 Rich Hill Mile (1600m) on the course, among five in a row before finishing second to stable-mate Avantage in the Gr.1 Haunui Farm Classic (1600m) last season..Trainer Jamie Richards had freshened Prise De Fer after his Rich Hill Mile title defense on 1 January, and he indicated his readiness when stretching out very well for third at the tria...

Super Football out to stamp Derby credentials

Super Football’s BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) aspirations will be put to the test this Sunday at Sha Tin as he shoots for a hat-trick of wins and a boost in the ratings high enough to warrant consideration for Hong Kong’s most prestigious race in a fortnight’s time.   Trained by Jimmy Ting, the youngster has soared into calculations for the HK$24 million contest on 21 March with two smart wins over the mile at Sha Tin, but this weekend he faces his stiffest test yet in a hot editi...

Blog Post- Nathan Trumper March 2021

Keith & Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship recipient Nathan Trumper updates us on his adventures in Ireland:Each week you are placed in different yards, the last couple of weeks I've been at Maddenstown. Commonly known as ‘Mad Town’, this is where all the dry mares are overseen by Tom (the foreman stationed there) who manages the many mares who get teased and put through the crush for the vet to check them. This has been one of my favourite places to work. Tom is a great guy to work with, ...

Stakes assignment for promising three-year-old

A comprehensive three-length victory at Matamata on Saturday has set promising three-year-old Tar And Cement on a path to the Gr.2 Fusion Electrical Wellington Guineas (1400m) at Trentham next month. The Reliable Man gelding made it two wins from two starts when he led all the way over 1400m on the weekend for trainer Tony Pike, who has a big opinion of his charge. “He’s a very promising type who has taken a while to get his act together,” Pike said. “He’s a pretty well put together ho...

Star of the Seas secures All-Star Mile spot

Star Of The Seas (Ocean Park x Stella Livia) secured a spot in the All-Star Mile with a tough win in the Gr.2 Blamey Stakes (1600m). The Chris Waller-trained gelding held off a determined challenge from Fifty Stars (Sea The Stars), who was trying to become the first horse to claim the Group Two Flemington feature three years in a row. Jamie Kah's mount Buffalo River (Noble Mission) set a fast pace in front and he was still four lengths clear with 200 metres to go. Waller's Melbourne stable forep...

Sky Field picks up lucrative bonus

Sky Field was back in winning form on Wednesday winning at Happy Valley in Hong Kong. The four-year-old gelding’s win delighted trainer Caspar Fownes as the son of Deep Field collected a HK$1,500,000 High Achievement Bonus for winning a Class 1 contest before reaching the age of five. Fownes predicts a bright future for Sky Field after he charged down the outside under Alexis Badel to deny Stronger by a head. “He’s still learning, but he’s a good horse. Once he starts to really chill wit...

Walls stepping down

After 22 years Kevin ‘Millie’ Walls will be stepping down from his role as Stud Manager at Trelawney Stud. Walls joined the Trelawney team in 1998 and has been an integral part of the farm during that time, seeing 25 individual Group One winners bred, raised or sold from the property pass through his hands. “Millie has been instrumental in the overall success of Trelawney Stud,” Managing Director Brent Taylor said. “He has led our team of staff to achieve the results we have strived f...

Stakes targets beckon regally-bred filly

Regally-bred filly Aquaoir will head to Ellerslie on Saturday in preparation for a tilt at the Gr.3 Sunline Vase (2100m) next month.Bred by Trelawney Thoroughbreds, Aquaoir was purchased out of the farm's 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 draft for $100,000. The Cody Cole-trained three-year-old is a half-sister to Group One winners Loire and A Touch Of Ruby, and her connections are keen for the daughter of Ocean Park to add further black-type to her pedigree page. She placed in her two initial ...

BLOG: Nathan Trumper

There are 24 students on the course for 2021 which is a special year for the stud being the 50th year of this wonderful course. The first 2 weeks there were 12 of the international students that had to do a two-week quarantine stint at the stud. It was a great two weeks to really getting to know everyone before the Irish turned up. There was a lot of time spent in the common room watching races from all over the world, the sales on the Gold Coast, as well as watching a lot of movies. &...

James looking for big run from Concert Hall

Cambridge trainer Roger James will produce Concert Hall in Saturday's Gr.3 Powerworx Taranaki Cup (1800m) at New Plymouth as a springboard to a campaign in Melbourne, just days after the death of his last star performer in Australia, Silent Achiever. Concert Hall became James' first Group One winner since Silent Achiever when she won the Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day and he will now attempt to guide her to similar Australian success. "Make no mistake, she's no Silent Achiever...

Loire wins Rotorua trial

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is looking forward to autumn racing with Loire after her pleasing trial at Rotorua on Tuesday. Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) winner Loire showed a good turn of foot when coming from the back of the field to take out her 1000m heat by three-quarters of a length. “I was really pleased with her trial today,” Pike said. “She’s a Group One filly you expect to trial well. “She came home nicely off the slow speed and did it nicely. Hopefully she is in for ...