Malachi Crunch

Malachi Crunch races at Moruya tomorrow in the BM58 over 1210m (Race 3 at 2:25pm). He will be ridden by Belinda Wright for the first time to take advantage of her claim. He is dropping back from Open company and he is a consistently good performer at Moruya.

Malachi Crunch and Depreciation are both on track to race at Moruya on Friday. The video above is their gallop on Saturday morning (Malachi Crunch is on the outside).

Malachi Crunch had a good gallop at the jumpouts this morning. He sprinted well and is on track to race at Moruya at the end of June.

Malachi Crunch is back at the stables after his short break in the paddock. He will have a gallop on Saturday and is aiming to race at Moruya at the end of June.

Malachi Crunch is enjoying a short break in the paddock with his friend Depreciation. Both boys are due back at the stables next week.

They both earned a little holiday after very successful preps (Depreciation won at Crookwell in March and Malachi Crunch won at Moruya in April).

Malachi Crunch will be back at peak fitness in time for the Moruya meeting at the end of June.

Malachi Crunch had an easy gallop on his own on Tuesday morning (click above for video). He worked from the 1000m mark in the following sectionals:

16.82, 14.87, 13.49, 12.95, 12.29

Malachi Crunch is back at the stables after a short 10 days in the paddock. He managed to stack on the weight around his belly even though he was only on the grass for such a short time. He did some 3/4 pace on Saturday and he felt fit and fresh so it shouldn’t take too long to strip off the extra kilos.

He is aiming to race at his favourite track, Moruya, on April 9th.

Malachi Crunch is racing today at Nowra. He will be ridden by Pat Scorse to take 1.5kg off his high weight. He had a solid sprint up with Lincoln Cash Man on Friday (video above) and should perform well today.

Click above for a video update on Malachi Crunch.

Malachi Crunch had his first outing to the river this week and he was perfect. He confidently led the way through the water, followed by Georgian Court and Depreciation (video above).

We were very pleased with Malachi Crunch’s effort in the Narooma Town Plate, especially since it was his first race over 1300m. He has always been a short distance sprinter but as he gets older, he is learning to settle and stretch out the distances he can race over.

At trackwork, Malachi Crunch always does the bare minimum and barely makes it around to the exit before stopping. His rider, Maddy, filmed the video below from her helmet camera on Saturday morning showing the effort needed to make it the last 200m in a slow canter. Sometimes it is hard to believe he has won 5 races.

Malachi Crunch is preparing to take on the Narooma Town Plate on Monday over 1300m. It will be his first test at the trip when he steps up from his win over 1200m last start.

Malachi has been allocated minimum weight so Brock Ryan is back on board. Brock rode Malachi Crunch to his first three career wins, two of which were at the Moruya track.

Tuesday morning’s gallop video is above where he worked from the 1000m with Lauren Davies’ horse “Clergyman”:

15.41, 14.50, 13.78, 11.76, 11.18

He took his little sister, Minnie Malachi, for a trail ride on the bush track to recover on Wednesday morning:

Malachi Crunch has hit the lead in the chase for the Moruya Jockey Club Horse of the Year with his victory on Monday.

We love this photo from Bradley Photographers of Archie with his amazing owner Melissa returning to the yard after his win.

Robbie Brewer is riding an incredible strike rate for our stable at the moment and the last four times he has worn the pink Electrick Bloodstock colours he has cross the line in 1st place, an unbelievable achievement.

Malachi Crunch is ready for the races on Monday after his sprint up this morning with Sarzana (video above). They ran up the last two furlongs in:

11.23, 10.86

He will be racing against stablemate Airfree, who he enjoyed a trail ride with earlier in the week (video below).