Te Akau UK Preview

Te Akau has one horse racing on Saturday 21 October at Ascot racecourse in the U.K.

As on Friday 20 October the conditions were: cloudy and good to soft footing. 3mls rain forecast.

1.25 a.m. Sunday NZ - 1.25 p.m. Saturday UK - 10 Torcedor (5 g Fastnet Rock - Magnolia Lane) - Colm O'Donoghue; has drawn barrier seven of 13 in the £260,000 Qipco Long Distance Cup (Gr. 2, 3200m). Purchased by Te Akau principal David Ellis for 70,000 Euro (NZ$115,000) at the 2013 Deauville Yearling Sales in France, he is owned by Sir Patrick Hogan, Sir Peter Vela, Mohammed Moussa, and Laurie Laxon, and trained by Jessica Harrington in County Kildare, Ireland. At his last start, on 10 September in the Irish St Leger (Gr. 1, 2816m), he finished second to race rival and favourite Order of St George (Galileo) who again dominates the market 6/5. Torcedor has won four of his 15 starts, four seconds and a third, and earned NZ$417,054 in prize money.

Fixed odds: 20 to 1.

Ellis said: “He is still a relatively inexperienced horse, racing against the best staying horses in the world, and he's just going to continue to get better.”