Jess Land Racing

21/10/2026

A collection of the team at home today snapped by Karen 📸

16/10/2026

The bestest boy is ready to start his next chapter 💕

16/10/2026

Good day at the office with Hanalei Star picking up a well deserved win after a super consistent run of races 🥰

Given a peach of a ride by Akshay!

14/10/2026

Snapped by Karen 📸 down at the track this morning with the team!

13/10/2026

The first of nine races at Gore on Friday is at 12.15pm.

Rangiora trainer Jess Land will saddle the likely favourite Chataya in race one, the Advance Agiculture maiden 2200m.

Chataya, the 6yr-old daughter of Redwood had 13 starts in the North Island but has raced consistently well in her six races since joining with Jess Land in June.

Chataya was second at her last start at Timaru (Oct 4) over this distance.

Jess and her partner Brett Murray have brought down six horses for the meeting including Loose Knickers in the RB Rural maiden 1355m. Akshay Ballo will ride Loose Knickers, who has finished third and second in his last two starts.

Hanalei Star has either finished second or third in her last three races. She is in one of the most competitive races on the the day, the Gore Elite Plumbing rating 65 1355m.

Jess has two runners in the last race of the day sponsored by JJ’s Gore. My Girl Alice is having her first start in rating 65 grade after winning a maiden over this same 1200m distance at Wingatui on October 2, while Elite Choice is having her first start from the Rangiora stable.

Jess said her team should mostly all be good chances on Friday “We are definitely bringing down a nice bunch, I’m just hoping it’s fourth time lucky for us and we actually get to race!

Jess jokes about her recent history of bad luck travelling down to in Gore. “I might be cursing the poor place!!”

“We came down twice last year when the wind storm come through in October and then the rain called off the rescheduled meeting and then we came down for the last lot in September.”

“We love the Gore racing club though, the organisers are so accomodating and do everything they can to help.”

Chataya (Brett Murray) - Race 1, maiden 2200m.
Loose Knickers (Akshay Balloo - Race 6, maiden 1355m.
Hanalei Star (Akshay Balloo) - Race 7, rating 65 1355m.
Fakeittillumakeit (Kendra Bakker) - Race 8, rating 65 1355m.
My Girl Alice ( Akshay Balloo) - Race 9, rating 65 1200m.
Elite Choice (Brett Murray) - Race 9, rating 65 1200m.

Photo supplied by Karen Livingstone - Loose Knickers and Elite Choice working on Saturday morning at the Rangiora track

11/10/2026

More relevant for the sport horse side of the business but definitely a busy week for the team!

Bold Move, Schoolmate and Declare head to the trials before we head south to Gore with Hanalei Star, Fakeittillumakeit, Elite Choice, My Girl Alice, Chataya and Loose Knickers and we finish the week at Ashburton with Lanikai 😃

👀 BUSY WEEK 👀

Just a heads up before we enter full chaos mode that we may be a touch slow on updates and replies this week as we are literally here, there and everywhere 🙊 I’ll do my best to get back to everyone promptly and fit in as many viewings as I can but we aren’t super humans so we do have a limit!

You can mostly blame the racehorses 🏇 for the madness but to give you an idea of what our week looks like here goes…

Tuesday - Trials in Timaru with 3 horses

Wednesday - SJ training day with 3 horses

Thursday - Drive to Gore for races

Friday - Races in Gore with 6 horses

Saturday - Home from Gore

Sunday - Races in Ashburton with 1 horse

Thankfully I have an amazing team at home so horses will stay working right through but to avoid putting too much pressure on everyone from Thursday to Sunday we won’t be able to fit any viewings in sorry everyone 🫣 we will however get as much footage as possible in the next three days and things will be much less chaotic next week!

📸 Karen Livingstone - Loose Knickers and Elite Choice working on Saturday morning down at the track

09/10/2026

Loose Knickers and Elite Choice down at the track this morning for their fast work 🤩

📸 Karen Livingstone

09/10/2026

Some cool shots of My Girl Alice breaking through Maidens at the Wingatui meeting last week 💕

📸 Monica Toretto - Sports & Race Photography

05/10/2026

Some of the stable essentials from the BetaVet NZ range 🤩

I’ve noticed some awesome improvements in my horses across the board since starting them on these products and they really have become part of the daily feed plan now for some of my more difficult horses needing that bit of extra help!

04/10/2026

Rounding up a pretty special few days at the races 🥰

A peach of a ride from Brett with Tay just getting a bit tired in the last 100m but a very pleasing step up from 1600m to 2200m this start on a firmer track!