Veandercross
| Veandercross | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Crossways (GB) |
| Grandsire | Habitat (USA) |
| Dam | Lavender |
| Damsire | Super Gray (USA) |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 14 October 1988 |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Colour | Brown |
| Owner | Chris Turner |
| Trainer | Chris Turner co-trained by John Wheeler |
| Record | 40: 15-9-4 |
| Earnings | A$2,602,524 |
| Major wins | |
| 1991 CJC New Zealand 2000 Guineas 1991 Levin Classic 1992 STC Canterbury Guineas 1992 VRC LKS Mackinnon Stakes 1993 AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes 1993 STC Ranvet Stakes 1993 VRC Australian Cup 1993 WaikRC Lion Brown Sprint |
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| Awards | |
| 1992/3 Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year | |
| Last updated on 17 August 2011 | |
Veandercross (14 October 1988 – 18 October 2014) was a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred gelding who won 14 stakes races, (including eight Group one), and was chosen Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year for the 1992–93 season.
Veandercross was a brown, rangy gelding bred by Dr Bill Luey at Lower Hutt not far from the Trentham Racecourse. Foaled on 14 October 1988, he was by Crossways (GB), out of the unraced mare Lavender, who was in turn a daughter of the sire Super Gray (USA), meaning he was closely inbred (3m x 3f) to champion racehorse and sire Nijinsky. Crossways only produced two other stakes winners in his career, Awesome Ways and Prince of Praise. Lavender had nine foals race for three winners.
He was trained by his part-owner Chris Turner, a full-time schoolteacher at the provincial racing centre of Wanganui in New Zealand, prompting his nickname, "The Wanganui Wonder." He was usually ridden by jockey Jim Walker.
Veandercross showed immediate promise in the 1991-1992 New Zealand racing season when as a three-year-old he won his first three races including two listed events. He then ran second in the Wanganui Guineas to the front running Lodore Lady before winning the Okawa Guineas at Hastings. He was narrowly defeated twice at Trentham, in the Wellington Guineas trial (½ length) and the Wellington Guineas (by a head to Solvit). He easily won the New Zealand 2000 Guineas and the Bayer Classic (now called the Levin Classic) - both G1 races over 1,600 metres. Then he came north for the Avondale Guineas and once more ran home late, for third placing.
On to the New Zealand Derby and in a very rough race where the eventual winner Cavallieri (a horse who never won another race) bumped a number of horses sideways, cannoning a horse into Veandercross, who recovered his stride, but he couldn't quite overtake the winner, going down by a half head. The siren went, but in an extraordinary enquiry, the stewards dismissed the appeal.
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