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.

New winner for Noverre

Noverre has another winner on the board after Platinum La Danse produced a dazzling last-to-first run to break her maiden at just her fourth career start.

14 August 2026

The Corner with Garry Chittick

The two of you will be aware of my ongoing concern as to the future of our sport. You could argue I have a vested interest; well, I did have, but my interest now is to give the future generations the opportunity my generation had. Now I can tell you, hand on heart, there were many financial thin times. 1975 was my fledgling start with five mares on 130 acres that occasionally flooded with the well-bred, non-race-winning Super Gray.