Woodville will wind back the clock when staging this year’s running of the Glenanthony Simmentals Stud Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase and Te Whāngai Romney’s Hawke’s Bay Hurdles, with a number of retired jumping stars joining the festivities.
Jo Rathbone has spent most of her life immersed in the world of jumps racing, with a celebrated riding career, a couple of champion horses, and a rising profile in the training ranks already to her name.
Jumps racing often gives thoroughbreds a second career on the track, and for Lucy de Lautour, it serves as a perfect transition into life on the hunt field.
Jess de Lautour catches up with Brian Anderton, a doyen of the sport, about his past success and the legacy he has left on Australasian jumps racing, not only as a trainer, but an owner, breeder, jockey and educator.
The Paul Nelson and Corrina McDougal-trained pair of The Cossack and Suliman will make their much-anticipated return to racing in the John Turkington Forestry/Waipine Logging Bulls Country Cup (2200m) at Trentham on Saturday.
