3 year old filly Freaky Freakles claimed her first win of the year with stablemate The Guru tieing up second at the Sapphire Coast. Sitting wide early, Jess Taylor was able to hold pace with the leading pack. Doing it the hard way from out wide, the team picked up the pace with 500 to
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It has been a very frustrating 6 weeks with numerous race meetings abandoned due to the horrific bushfires across the state. This has led to interruptions to a lot of the programs of our horses up racing. Sapphire Coast Carnival. We were able to take a team to the 2 day Sapphire Coast Carnival. Overall
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Trainer Theresa Bateup expects black-type racing is within Monegal’s reach after a stunning Bega Cup win on Sunday. Monegal – the reigning horse of the year at the Sapphire Coast club – made it four wins from five starts at the track for Bateup, who is the premier trainer for the past two seasons. But
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The immediate aim for Monegal this preparation was the Bega Cup with her program carefully mapped out to head there 3rd up. She resumed at Kembla on the 11th January where she missed the start but worked home well, doing her best work late over 1200m to only be beaten just under 3 lengths. Vega
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Micheal Oscar made it 2 wins from 2 starts for the stable when he stepped up to Class 1 grade at Canberra. Micheal came to us after a long time off the racing scene and only 6 previous race starts. He is thriving in his new environment and looks like he will add a couple more
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A team of bargain buys will carry the hopes of Theresa Bateup in Saturday’s Sky Racing Summer Provincial Series – Heat 1 Class 5 Plate (1400m) at Kembla Grange. The Kembla Grange trainer has four runners in the first heat of the Provincial series, with Golly I’m Lucky, Fleeting Stryke, Titaness and Taqueda all set
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We kicked off the month with a trip to my hometown of Cootamundra in pursuit of a win in the Cootamundra Cup and went oh so close with Old Man’s Angel and Arrow’s Destiny finishing 2nd and 3rd (with only a nostril between them) and only a neck behind the winner! Halliday Road also ran
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Kembla Grange’s Theresa Bateup has called for more support to be provided to provincial trainers in their efforts to compete with the top stables in the state. With the sport experiencing a surge in popularity in Sydney and Racing NSW placing a greater emphasis on country regions, the provincial areas have been squeezed out in
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We kicked off the new racing season in the best manner with Monegal breaking through for a well deserved city win at Canterbury on the 7th August. Monegal almost made it back to back wins at Canterbury when charging late at Canterbury on the 21st August to be beaten in a very deceptive photo finish.
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Another season has come to an end and once again it has been quite a successful season for the stable, culminating with winning back to back Trainer’s Premierships at Sapphire Coast! It came down to the final meeting of the season, with Mickey Jay finally putting it altogether to storm away to an easy victory first up and
