Another winning strike for brave Neighbourhood

Neighbourhood is making the most of his chances after overcoming a major setback as a younger horse.

The Waikato Stud-bred and raced son of Pins suffered a badly broken shoulder as a yearling and a huge team effort nursed him back to full health and subsequently joined the stable of Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott.

Now a five-year-old, Neighbourhood followed up a top resuming run for second with victory over 1400 metre at Pukekohe Park on Sunday afternoon.

“We’ve been really pleased with the way he has come up and his first-up run was great,” Scott said.

“He really divebombed them, he’s airborne at the moment.”

Neighbourhood settled three back on the fence in the hands of Joe Doyle and when the field fanned out in the straight, he wound up powerfully to score with authority and his third win from 11 outings.

He is a son of the O’Reilly mare Urban whose three foals to race have all been successful and includes Neighbourhood’s promising half-brother Poison Chalice (Savabeel), the winner of four of his eight starts for Victorian trainer Paul Preusker.

A half-sister to the G3 South Island Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes winner Residential, Urban has an unraced Savabeel juvenile and a three-year-old filly named Suburban.

Her Savabeel filly was purchased by Te Akau’s David Ellis for A$400,000 at the recent Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale and she is back in foal to the champion stallion.