Karaka Graduate Claims Feilding Gold Cup

Accomplished galloper Pump Up The Volume (NZ) (Savabeel), who was purchased for just $10,000 at the 2010 Select Sale at Karaka, scored the second stakes win of his career when he won Saturday’s $50,000 Listed Ricoh Feilding Gold Cup (2100m) at Awapuni.

Ridden by Emily Farr for trainer and part-owner Ralph Manning, Pump Up The Volume scored an impressive come-from-behind win under a 60-kilogram topweight. He raced in eighth place in the 11-horse field before a late charge down the straight took him to a narrow win over Alinko Prince (NZ) (Alamosa) and Five To Midnight (NZ) (Domesday).

“He was always travelling well and I know how he finishes off his races,” Farr said.

Pump Up The Volume is by Savabeel out of the multiple stakes winner Nat The Brat (NZ) (Racing Is Fun).

Raequin Park offered Pump Up The Volume at the 2010 Select Sale, where Manning secured him for $10,000. Manning has trained the gelding to win seven of his 50 starts, placing in another 18 and earning more than $236,000 in stakes.

Pump Up The Volume had previously won the Group 3 Rotorua Cup (2200m) in 2015.