Nippin Shows True Colours

7 February 2012

Nippin staged an impressive return to his best form at Te Rapa on Saturday and rider Jonathan Riddell is predicting further improvement from the four-year-old. Bred and sold by WS, the Allan Sharrock-trained son of Pins came from well back in the field with a driving finish to account for his Rating 75 sprint opposition.

“I rode him totally different to what Allan told me, he wanted him in the first five or six, but it worked out and he really found the line strongly,” Riddell said. ‘He’s a nice horse and once he gets over more of a trip he’ll be even better.”

A $210,000 Premier Sale purchase in 2009, Nippin is out of the well-related Centaine mare Wait A Minute. She is a sister to the Gr 1 Arrowfield Stud Stakes winner Sixty Seconds from the family of the dual Gr 1 New Zealand Oaks and Kelt Capital Stakes inner Legs.

The Corner with Garry Chittick

Are there any benefits in growing older. Well, so long as your memory has not yet failed, then there is the knowledge accumulated from past experience. Like me, many as we age, develop a strong sense of cynicism; you know, we’ve seen it all before.

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Jess Greenfield awarded 2026 Mary-Lynne Ryan Young Achiever Award

On Saturday night, Jess Greenfield was awarded the loveracing.nz Mary-Lynne Ryan Young Achiever Award at the Property Brokers National Breeding Awards at Karapiro. When asked by Steve Davis what the future looked like for Jess, Greenfield humbly replied: “Just keep working away at Waikato Stud and see where we end up.”