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A roundup of the week's racing.

Racing: Hawke's Bay trained Pep Torque a bargain buy 19 Feb, 2021 03:00 PM 9 minutes to read Waipukurau trainer Kirsty Lawrence leads her pride and joy Pep Torque away after the horse recorded his seventh victory in the main race at last week's Awapuni meeting. Waipukurau trainer Kirsty Lawrence leads her pride and joy Pep Torque away after the horse recorded his seventh victory in the main race at last week's Awapuni meeting. Hawkes Bay Today Pep Torque pays dividends Waipukurau-trained Pep Torque, whose racing career was put in jeopardy when he suffered a fractured knee 12 months ago, is ...

Supplied Merv Andrews Happily returns to the birdcage after his Grand National Hurdles victory on Gay Fellow at Riccarton in 1950. OPINION: Merv Andrews was not only one of the most respected racing trainers in the land, he was one of only a few to train and ride a New Zealand Cup winner. This is the Merv Andrews who won 101 races as a jockey on the flat and over fences and a further 541 as a trainer, putting him in the vicinity of Manawatū racing greats Eric Temperton, Noel Eales and Eric Ropiha. Approaching his 93rd birthday, Andrews lives on in good health in Palmerston North, still fol...

Field of Dreams – Sharon and Kallista Field Twenty Years On Fri, 01/08/2021 - 11:47 F.O.C.U.S. With just one horse each to compete, New Zealand dressage rider Sharon and her Olympian athlete daughter, Kallista Field, are enjoying the slower pace of life at their Pahiatua (Southern Hawke’s Bay) yard these days. They certainly don’t miss the long days and hard work that accompanied standing their imported stallion Salutation and keeping a full team of competition and schooling horses in work. “It’s more enjoyable now than ten or twenty years ago” says Sharon. “Now if we m...