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Racing
20 October 2024
Battle Secret tops the Thurlow show
“He’s a seriously nice horse and there’s a really good race in him, I think that’ll be when we get over ground."
Racing
18 October 2024
Battle Secret chasing local Cup honours
“That’s all I can put it down too, but he’s found a very good patch of form and if he can carry on like that, long may it continue.”
Racing
21 September 2024
Myers reaches Wanganui milestone with age-group double
“I think he’s got a future. We’ll go race-by-race with him for now, we haven’t set anything for him yet, but I think there’ll be a nice race in him somewhere.”
Racing
25 August 2024
Back-to-back for Battle Secret
“If everything goes right, he could be a nice country cup’s type of horse a bit further down the track which would be nice.”
Racing
05 June 2024
Thurlow heading west with strong quartet
Waverley trainer Bill Thurlow is hoping to collect a couple of breakthrough successes with four runners heading to New Plymouth on Thursday.
Racing
20 April 2024
No Rain Ever too strong in Warstep Stakes
Central Districts filly No Rain Ever bounced back from an uncharacteristically poor performance seven days ago at Riccarton to secure a hard fought stakes victory when taking out the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Warstep Stakes (2000m). 
Racing
11 April 2024
3YO out to prove distance credentials
“There is a slight question mark at the moment for me over the mile, but we’ll see how she goes back against her own age group.”
Racing
21 March 2024
Thurlow aiming to strike gold in Tauherenikau feature
With the Listed Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m) in the pipeline, Bill Thurlow is looking forward to stepping Field Of Gold out over ground in Sunday’s Trust House Enhancing Our Community Masterton Cup (2050m).
Racing
04 March 2024
Thurlow weaves Whangaehu’s way into Auckland Cup
“It’s been our plan for a while, but it was whether or not he was going to make the field, but it looks like we’ve made it.”