Stephen Ralph Racing

17/01/2026

Wonderful win yesterday by Perfectmanz. He will keep stepping up this horse with his good mate on Corentin Berge 🐎 💨

23/02/2025

Help needed!

Hello everyone, my son Mitchell is in a sweepstakes to win a free trip to the KENTUCKY DERBY and he is down to the last 3!

Mitchell works for Arrowfield Stud in Scone, Australia. He is as passionate about horses as we all are! He is now an Australian resident but we won't hold that against him!

There is a poll on Twitter that closes in 14 hours. Could everyone please spare 5 seconds and vote for Mitchell!

https://x.com/jstewartrr/status/1893481986712289487?s=19

It's a trip of a life time!

Thank you all!

22/07/2024

‘Takeachance’ with Thunder Down Under is exactly what Tracy Lomas did and it has paid off!

A massive congrats to Tracy for a win with her mare, at just her second start after a gutsy third at her first start.

Thunder Down Under has only had six runners to the races, this is his first win but he has had three others place in the top three.

Talented 2yr old Montana Bay has had three 2nds this season and his just as talented full sister Monique Tonnerre has three 3rds to her name. We are excited about their chances this spring/summer.

Photo credits: Trish Dunnell

13/12/2023

READ: Stephen Ralph Racing heads to Te Rapa Racing on Saturday where his runners include promising 2yo Montana Bay.
https://www.racingnews.co.nz/promising-two-year-old-looking-for-breakthrough-win/

Montana Bay (outside) will contest the ICIB Brokerweb 2YO (1100m) at Te Rapa on Saturday,  Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) Juvenile chasing special success for connections Paul Vettise, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk 14 December 2023 Highly regarded two-year-old Montana Bay will deliver a memorable vic...

04/11/2023

Go old fat boy Manrico 🥰

People may talk and criticize us for racing our horses too much BUT we know our horses and we know they are very happy and still have such the will to win!

06/10/2023

Winners are grinners!

(But we all know how quick it can it go from this ☹ to this 😊 and then back to this ☹ in this game 😊 😊 ?)

A massive congrats to Mi Amigo (Pablo), his owners and to Gareth Lahoud – first win for both horse and jockey and we thank you all. A special thanks to Robby for entrusting us with Pablo and so glad you still have your balls 😊.

A special thanks to Stuart and Cherie Hope for entrusting us with all of Monarch’s progeny! All have been winners at either races or trials including Santa Monica, Monaco, Montana Mist and now Montana Bay.

By Thunder Down Under, Montana Bay, while still very green showed great speed and tenacity to win his first trial over 600m today at Waipa in Heat 5.

We do not get the bluebloods like the top stables do, but we still treat and train every horse like they are the best.
Please call us on 021 689 267 to go from ☹ to this 😊.

17/09/2023

Tahuroa Height 🥈 in the Great Northern Hurdle with Kylan Wiles (A) aboard.

Woweee! We are so so proud of our boy “Rastus”. Can’t say enough good things about Kylan. Absolutely summed up the pace of the race. Had Tahuroa Height asleep going pass the winning post both times and got him into the race at the right time.

Also wanted to give a special mention to Des & Bernice Appleton who bred and raced Tahuroa Height early on in his career. Sadly Des passed away and isn’t here today to enjoy this top run from his boy.

08/07/2023

WIN WIN - Congrats Tahuroa Height and Kylan Wiles

Tahuroa Height won his first hurdle race today piloted by a positive front running ride from Kylan Wiles who picks up his first winning ride as a jumps jockey.

It was a brilliant ride by Kylan and as Steve’s son Mitchell commented “what a beautiful race to watch, he was floating in front. He looked like he was feeling great today just left in front”.

We watched Kylan on his jumps debut and were impressed with how relaxed and balanced he was on the horse and knew we would like to put him on when we had the chance. A big thanks to his dad Dean for giving us that chance! Kylan is definitely a great addition to our jumps riders and will ride a lot more winners.

Tahuroa Height was bred by Bernice and the late Des Appleton and it was fantastic to have their son Kevin at the races today.

The winning team (from left to right): Kevin Appleton, Kylan Wiles, Stephen Ralph, Aleisha Thompson and Tahuroa Height

13/05/2023

A special win from our ex-stable horse Special Swey in the G3 Rough Habit today in Queensland.

M&M (Special Swey) broke his maiden for us at his 7th start at Matamata on the 19th of April before being transferred to Chris Waller's barn on the 1st of May.

We have always thought highly of him and his staying abilities.
He is a horse that keeps getting stronger.
We were very confident about him giving the team a run like he did today.
He is currently 3rd favourite for the Queensland Derby in two weeks' time.
Very exciting!

Also, congrats to our owner Luigi of Novara Park Stud on breeding and racing Special Swey. We are always thankful to be given opportunities to train well bred horses.
As we know, it's hard to be racing horses in NZ at the moment, and Luigi sold Special Swey to his brother Tony. Well done, Tony!
It's great to see Special Swey is kept in the Muollo family 😉

19/01/2023

We have four 2 year olds and two yearlings that need relocating from our reduced in size property.

These are from our Stallion 'Thunder Down Under' which we believe to have one of the better available pedigrees available in NZ. He has magical bloodlines with what must be one of the best proven sire lines to make it in Australasia that being Street Cry on his top side and the world's greatest ever sire on his dam side of Galileo. His third dam 'All Along' a winner of the Prix de I'Arc de Triomphe Gr1 and America's horse & filly of the year and Europe’s older horse of the year.

On top of that he himself and the progeny have outstanding temperaments and attitudes. His oldest are just 3 year olds. Thunder Down Under had only 2 runners last season as 2 yr olds with both winning trials and placing at the races with Monique Tonnerre, the half sister to Gr1 winner Santa Monica, running 3rd twice in her 3 starts being beaten late in her placings by the promising Chamario and Andulus. In his first three seasons Thunder Down Under has had just the 9 foals born each season.

Thunder Down Under had 3 trialists from his first crop at Tauranga on Tuesday 17th January. All ran very creditable trials and we eagerly await their next runs. All three look very promising.
We have only had very encouraging comments from their riders.

We believe Thunder Down Under will show he has the credentials to be an important player in our breeding industry.

Please call us as we are open and very negotiable on any terms you might like to make.
Phone Stephen or Melanie on 021 689 267

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