Xcellent’s Half Seeking Black-Type Reward

11 October 2011

Xcellent’s Pins half-brother Instructor seeks black-type reward of his own in the Listed Murray Bridge Gold Cup in South Australia tomorrow (Wed).

Instructor has won on ten occasions and brings strong recent form into the race thanks to a smart last start win over 1350m at Strathalbyn.

Also notably lining up in the 6:10pm feature (NZ time) is the 6 time winning O’Reilly gelding Doubly Sure.

Hong Kong winner for Seth with WSNZBred

Wednesday night at Happy Valley saw a new star of young-gun sire Super Seth salute as the Waikato Stud-bred Team Team Folks (ex Savodara) stormed home in Race 5 over 1200m for trainer Jimmy Ting, who trained a double on the nine-race card.

12 November 2025

G3 TAB Mile trifecta for Waikato sires

Recording his first Group victory, and second at black-type level after success in the Listed Lindauer Stewards Stakes some 12 months back, Ocean Park gelding Mystic Park led home an impressive one-two-three result for the Waikato stallions, defeating Sir Albert (Savabeel) and Cannon Hill (Ardrossan) in Wednesday’s Gr.3 TAB Mile (1600m) at Riccarton Park.