{"id":73157,"date":"2025-05-04T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/73157\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:24:09","slug":"horse-racing-towering-vision-claims-stakes-victory-in-desperate-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/73157\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse racing: Towering Vision claims stakes victory in desperate finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Bergerson was excited about the future prospects for his charge, who he believes will get better with age and a step up in distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe always liked the step up to 1400m, we thought he would also handle the track and he has just gone the right way of late,\u201d Bergerson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe is a horse we think has plenty of upside and looks like a really nice 3-year-old for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe has the ability to do it now and that is a fantastic result for his owners, for Windsor Park and Circus Maximus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe think he can go to the mile next time so the Champagne Stakes [Listed, 1600m] at Ellerslie is a possibility once we get him home and see how he pulls up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFair play to him as well as he looked beaten when the other one went past him. He got a bit green and got lost but he kicked again, which is a credit to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Grylls confirmed his mount had run a little greenly in the straight but was impressed with how he knuckled down to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Discover more<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe hopped away nicely and put himself there before idling up to them in the home straight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe got a little bit lost when he kicked away and the second horse has possibly headed him, but to his credit, he picked himself up again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYou would think 1600m will be ideal for him as he is a big, long-striding type.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Purchased by Te Akau Racing boss David Ellis for $105,000 during the Book 1 sale at Karaka in 2024, Towering Vision is closely related to multiple South Island stakes winner Who Dares Wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His sire Circus Maximus, a son of champion stallion Galileo, will stand at Windsor Park for $17,500 + GST during 2025 breeding season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><b>\u2013 LOVERACING.NZ News Desk<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bergerson was excited about the future prospects for his charge, who he believes will get better with age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[36297,36288,2703,36289,36296,26489,36286,36295,2584,9369,36287,9348,256,9370,36290,10915,1071,36299,79,36285,36291,36293,36298,36284,16,15,29721,32479,32019,36294,36292],"class_list":{"0":"post-73157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-1400m","9":"tag-2yearold","10":"tag-best","11":"tag-broke","12":"tag-centre","13":"tag-claims","14":"tag-desperate","15":"tag-equine","16":"tag-fashion","17":"tag-finish","18":"tag-handsome","19":"tag-horse","20":"tag-in","21":"tag-listed","22":"tag-maiden","23":"tag-possible","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-rapa","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-stakes","28":"tag-status","29":"tag-took","30":"tag-torrid","31":"tag-towering","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-united-kingdom","34":"tag-veterinary","35":"tag-victory","36":"tag-vision","37":"tag-waikato","38":"tag-when"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114448135880286612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}