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Bumper Oaks result for Rider’s Milan Park

There was double delight for Milan Park’s Tony Rider in the New Zealand Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) on Saturday as he can lay claim to breeding not only the winner Pulchritudinous (Wrote), but he also owns the dam of the runner-up, Positivity (Almanzor). Rider enjoys a close association with Pulchritudinous’ trainer and part-owner Chad Ormsby and purchased the mother of the second filly from her late co-breeder Sir Patrick Hogan. “Chad and I have had horses together and done deals before and he bought the half-brother by Ocean Park [Cyber Patch] off me for $80,000,” he said. “He ended up selling him to Hong Kong for $600,000 so that’s why he came back and bought this filly.”

 

Stakes target next on agenda for Nereus

Stakes targets loom large for progressive gelding Nereus (Savabeel) following his win over 1600 metres at Trentham on Saturday. Freshened up following his runner-up effort in the inaugural $350,000 Remutaka Classic (2100m) in January, trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray were confident of a good showing on Saturday, and their charge delivered with a 0.5 length victory over Nancy She Wrote (Wrote). “He’s a pretty serious horse this guy and he’s got the pedigree, the temperament and just does enough to win,” Ritchie said. Bred and raced by Waikato Stud, Nereus, who is by their multiple champion stallion Savabeel (Zabeel), has now extended his great run of form to four wins and three placings from seven starts, and earned nearly $160,000 in prize money. His trainers are now eyeing the Hawke’s Bay Cup (Listed, 2200m) at Hastings next month, believing the gelding deserves his chance at stakes level. “He’ll get in the Hawke’s Bay Cup with a light weight, that’s in four weeks’ time so he’ll go straight into it,” Ritchie said.

 

Adam I Am suffers tendon injury

A dark cloud is hanging over the progressive Adam I Am’s (Almanzor) racing future after the son of Almanzor (Iffraaj) pulled up with a tendon injury following his win over 1400 metres at Ellerslie on March 9. The four-year-old had proven to be one out of the box for his trainer Glenn Old this season, bursting onto the scene at Matamata first-up in September when winning by five lengths before adding a further three wins to his tally, as well as a fourth placing in last month’s inaugural $350,000 Sir Patrick Hogan Karapiro Classic (1600m) at Te Rapa. He was set to have his first tilt at stakes level in the Japan Trophy (Gr 2, 1600m) at Tauranga this coming Saturday, but injury has curtailed those plans and Old said he has a fight on his hands to get the gelding back to the track. “He has pulled up with a tendon injury. He was alright on the Monday but then he had a couple of days in the paddock and when we brought him in on Thursday morning we noticed it, so it must have sprung out since raceday,” the trainer said. “It is pretty hard work trying to get them back with those tendons, but we will give him a chance because it’s Adam. We will rescan it in three weeks and just see where we are. If we did do the rehab, he wouldn’t race again until he was six.”

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