Sunday morning before Cup Day is always both hectic and exciting as the final touches are put on what is hoped to be Tuesday's Heroes. Most interest this year centred on AKUTA who bypassed the Cup...

As is usually the case Purdon Racing preferred a low key preview of its Cup Week armoury at the Addington trials on Wednesday. VESSEM  won, probably a reminder of what it feels like after some hard...

ANYTHING GOES will miss Cup Week racing,dealing a blow to Purdon Racing and his owners, but also to the Addington club struggling to fill the Junior FFA field on Tuesday. Anything Goes ran well in...

Even though Friday’s Addington meeting is a curtain raiser to the glories of NZ Cup week Nathan is confident there are some good things happening for the Purdon stable who feature in numbers through...

While  you may see signs the powers of the mighty Self Assured are fading and a new order coming to open class racing,don’t start counting him out just yet. He will be missing in the NZ Cup this...

AKUTA,astutely guided again by Olivia, posted another Kaikoura Cup win totalling an amazing record for All Stars and Purdon Racing on Monday. It was the 7th (or 8th depending how you count) this...

Mark could put the likely reason Captain Roy was beaten down to the early stages of the races at Riccarton on Saturday and can hope for better when the colt has his third start on the middle day of...

It's all systems go for CAPTAIN ROY at Riccarton Saturday as Mark shoots for hi inaugural win in the thoroughbred code. He is confident the Savabeel colt will go close. "He didn't have everything in...

Anything Goes is poised to make a comeback with a bang for Purdon Racing at Kaikoura as a leading chance in a race which proved rather elusive for All Star Stables over a lengthy period. "He's back...

Mark handed the accolades to Olivia after her astute drive behind AKUTA to become the first junior driver to win the Ashburton Flying Stakes,going close to the time the mighty Lazarus went in 2017...

Junior Drivers have achieved much over many years but few in the category since the days of Dexter Dunn have faced the thrills of a major raceday than Purdon Racing's Olivia Thornley does at...

Nathan has one worry over AKUTA  in the Flying Stakes at Ashburton on Monday and it is not that stable horsewoman Olivia Thornley is driving him. She has been entrusted with several of the stable's...