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Cosentino airborne in synthetic final
Synthetic flyer Cosentino (NZ) (El Roca) silenced any doubt about running out the seven furlongs with a blistering performance to claim Sunday’s $100,000 Japac Homes Polytrack Championship (1400m) at Awapuni. In the care of local trainers Stephen and Kevin Gray, the...
Grays hunting local riches
Local trainers Kevin and Stephen Gray will head to Awapuni on Sunday with a spring in their step as they get set to line-up two live chances in the $100,000 Japac Homes Polytrack Championship (1400m). Exciting sprinter Cosentino will be the leading light for the...
Perfect three for the Grays at Awapuni
As Stephen Gray’s first season back on home soil nears a close, the Palmerston North trainer was rapt to add three more wins to the stable’s tally on the Awapuni Synthetic on Thursday. Formerly training in Singapore, Gray joined his father, Kevin Gray, in partnership...
Star Turn Sprinter Strikes Form
Talented sprinter Silent Is Gold collected his first victory on New Zealand soil at Wanganui on Sunday with a powerful display in the Fraser Auret Racing Open Handicap (1350m). The son of Star Turn was among a handful of horses that travelled to New Zealand upon...
Auckland Cup berth on the line for Sword In Stone
A tilt at next week’s Group 2 Auckland Cup (3200m) is on the line for evergreen stayer Sword In Stone when he heads to Trentham on Sunday to contest the Milestone Homes 2200. The former Hong Kong galloper has been in pleasing form for trainers Kevin and Stephen Gray...
Comeback Win for Redwood’s Sword in Stone
An impressive come-from-behind win in the New World Otaki Handicap (1600m) on Boxing Day was the first New Zealand appearance in almost five years for Sword In Stone, a multiple Group One placegetter in Hong Kong who clearly has plenty more to offer back in his...
Hercock Secures Idyllic Victory in Levin Stakes
Idyllic is far from what Kate Hercock would describe the past 10 days, but a speedy mare with that name afforded her a moment of solace in Thursday’s Rose City Cars Levin Stakes (1200m) at Otaki. Hercock tragically lost her fiancé Danny Champion last Monday and the...
Bright start for Grays
Accomplished trainer Stephen Gray turned 60 on Saturday. On Sunday, he and his father Kevin, 87, celebrated their first winner back in partnership after Stephen and his wife Bridget ended their 25-year career training in Singapore. They have trained the winners of...
Idyllic salutes for the Grays
Idyllic (No Nay Never) marked the start of a new era for the father-son training partnership of Kevin and Stephen Gray when she powered to victory in the Autogroom – Kooltintz (1000m) at Tauherenikau on Sunday. The Gray’s prepared over 400 winners together in New...
Grays reunited back at Copper Belt Lodge
Kevin and Stephen Gray will have their first runners together in a quarter of a decade with two representatives at Friday’s Feilding meeting on the synthetic track at Awapuni. The father and son duo will kick-start their new partnership with Clickety Click in...
Emotional Gray bids farewell to Kranji
Even as Stephen Gray penned his farewell to the sprinkling of steadfast owners left at his depleted stable of 15 horses, he still could not fathom how it has all come to this. Eight years ago, he and wife Bridget were on top of the world basking in the glory of their...
Moor to come from February after maiden win
Jockey Daniel Moor rode his first winner at his current short-term stint in Singapore after the well-tried February broke through for his maiden win in the Starlight 2021 Stakes, a $75,000 Restricted Maiden race over 1600m on Saturday. Moor – who was at his second...