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The Live Sport Bible is here!Farr looking forward to jumps season commencing this weekend
Joshua Smith, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk • May 8th, 2026 3:39 pm
Emily Farr will ride Never Look Back in Sunday's Wanganui Insurance Brokers Open Hurdle (3000m). Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images)
Jockey Emily Farr is looking forward to commencing another season of jumps racing this weekend, and this year she will compete from a different base.
Formerly based in Waikato, Farr has moved south to Otaki to be with her partner Johno Benner, and she is enjoying the quieter life the Kapiti Coast provides.
“I love it down here, it is a quieter life and I get to be more hands on with Johno’s yard,” Farr said. “I get really involved in the two-year-olds and three-year-olds that he does, it is great. I love the Central Districts.”
Farr said she has been receiving plenty of support from local trainers in the build-up to winter.
“I get to keep my fitness up by riding in jumpouts and trials,” she said. “Guy Lowry is very good to me when I go to the jumpouts and I get to ride for a lot of people down here.”
Farr will head to the opening day of the jumps season at Wanganui on Sunday where she will ride the Gail Temperton-trained pair of Never Look Back and Name The Game in the Wanganui Insurance Brokers Open Hurdle (3000m) and Dr John D. Moore Memorial Open Steeplechase (3800m) respectively.
Farr has a strong bond with both horses, having ridden Never Look Back to victory in last year’s Hawke’s Bay Hurdles (3000m), while she said Name The Game has been great in educating younger jumpers.
“Gail and I have a great relationship and she is a wonderful lady,” Farr said. “I have done a lot of the schooling on the youngsters she has got coming through this year.
“Never Look Back won the Hawke’s Bay (Hurdles) for me. I schooled him at Waverley the other day and he is ready to go.
“Name The Game is a bit of a schoolmaster, and I have been schooling around with him with all the babies this year. He is a very cool horse.”
Farr is looking forward to the jumps season ahead and partnering with several exciting jumpers, particular the Paul Nelson and Corrina McDougal-trained The Bambino, who Farr rode to a runner-up result in last year’s Great New Zealand Hurdle (4200m).
“It is a big season ahead and I am looking forward to it,” Farr said.
“The Bambino is the one I am really looking forward to riding. He ran second in a high weight the other day and he has come up bigger and stronger than ever.”
