Experienced Thoroughbred Trainer Roger James has an enviable record when it comes to success on the race track. Roger has trained over 1000 winners in New Zealand. Added to this, he can boast saddling over 45 winners in Australia, and an impressive 28 Group One successes Australasia wide.
Roger James is expecting more of the same from Tavy when she tackles what he is describing as a pivotal race in Friday's Gr. 2 Cambridge Stud Eight Carat Classic at Ellerslie..
Cambridge-trained filly Tavy capped off a successful few days for Henrietta, the Duchess of Bedford, when taking the climb from a maiden win to a stakes victory at Ellerslie yesterday..
Promising stayer Delago’s Secret got his four-year-old season off to the best possible start with a convincing victory over 1600 metres at Matamata yesterday..
While Roger James is in Australia with stable star Silent Achiever, his stable foreperson Leanne Bertling has had her hands full, no more so than last night at the Cambridge Jockey Club Awards function at The Clubhouse in Cambridge..
The confidence exuded by Cambridge trainer Roger James proved totally justified at Ellerslie today when his smart filly Avisto completed a hat trick of stakes wins..
Cambridge trainer Roger James has four runners at Taupo on Friday, with most interest focused on debutant colts The Austrian Oak and Mongolian Hero in the Annie Higgins 1200..
Star mare Silent Achiever paired up with a familiar companion when she completed her last piece of serious work ahead of Saturday’s $A400,000 Gr.1 Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield..
Tavistock filly Avisto made it two stakes wins in a row today, taking out the Listed O’Leary’s Fillies’ Stales at Wanganui in her first start for new trainer Roger James..
Star racemare Silent Achiever is on schedule to cross the Tasman on Wednesday and kick off her Melbourne campaign in Saturday’s Gr. 1 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield..
The deeds of brilliant racemare Silent Achiever were recognised at the 2014 New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Awards last Friday, with the Roger James-trained mare voted as Champion Stayer of the Year..
Melbourne Cup hopeful Silent Achiever had her first hit-out in company this preparation when working on the course proper at Cambridge with stablemate Zonza on Wednesday morning, pleasing trainer Roger James..
Cambridge trainer Roger James has enjoying an outstanding season on both the home front and across the Tasman. He equalled his best-ever tally of New Zealand winners at Matamata today when the progressive Firepower strode to victory..
It is with great sadness that I have to inform you all of the sudden accidental passing of Joy Robinson, my devoted personal assistant of nearly 20 years..
Roger James has yet to confirm Silent Achiever’s path to this year’s Melbourne Cup, but he has settled on the most likely first step she’ll take toward Flemington..
Cambridge trainer Roger James is predicting a big future for ultra-consistent four-year-old mare Enjay who won the Echoes Of Heaven At Linwood Park 2100 at Te Rapa today..
Roger James has all but given up his Gr.2 Queensland Guineas aspirations for progressive Zabeel filly Katie’s Cove, who ran second in last weekend’s Gr.3 Hawkesbury Guineas..
Cambridge trainer Roger James showed his former top apprentice Vinnie Colgan at Te Rapa yesterday just why he wanted him to delay his return to Queensland..
The O’Reilly mare ended a five-race autumn campaign with a fourth placing to Dundeel (NZ) (High Chaparral) in last Saturday’s Gr. 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Randwick..
Cambridge trainer Roger James isn't convinced he has pulled the right rein, but he's still not ruling out a Travis Stakes win with Zonza at Te Rapa on Saturday..
Cambridge trainer Roger James has abandoned plans to campaign a team of horses in Queensland this winter but he still has his sights set on further Australian glory this season..
Continuous rain in Sydney has swayed the connections of Silent Achiever towards a start in the A$4 million Gr. 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick next Saturday..
Lady Cumquat's last-start win in the Gr. 3 Manawatu Classic came as no surprise to trainer Roger James, who knew just how good her trackwork leading into the race had been..
Silent Achiever become the ninth horse in history to win the Ranvet Stakes - The BMW double at Rosehill Gardens, the crowning glory in the New Zealand mares illustrious career..
It’s a long way from a maiden win at a midweek Matamata meeting to chasing black-type in Australia, but Roger James believes his promising filly Katie’s Cove is up to the challenge..
On a Thursday night last month after Roger James had joined the elite one-thousand winner club of New Zealand trainers, I chatted with the master Cambridge trainer in the process of putting together this tribute to his achievement..
The colours made famous in the 1930s by the champion Australian galloper Peter Pan were carried to victory by Cambridge filly Lady Cumquat in the Gr. 3 Higgins Manawatu Classic at Awapuni yesterday..
Fresh from the excitement of Silent Achiever’s Gr. 1 Ranvet Stakes win, trainer Roger James was back in New Zealand for yesterday’s Cambridge trials and still wearing a smile afterwards..
Kiwi trainer Roger James tasted an overdue Australian Group I success with Silent Achiever when the mare gunned down the Queen's horse Carlton House in an epic Ranvet Stakes (2000m) on Saturday..
A Brisbane winter campaign awaits impressive Te Rapa winner Full Count after the promising three-year-old dealt to his older rivals over 2100 metres in the last race on Saturday’s weather affected programme..
Cambridge trainer Roger James is looking to add Zonza and Lady Cumquat to his Australian attack heading by last Saturday’s Gr. 1 Lindauer NZ Stakes winner Silent Achiever..
Cambridge trainer Roger James celebrated training his 1000th winner in New Zealand by making it 1001 in the very next race when his outstanding mare Silent Achiever scored in magnificent style. .
Roger James and Matt Cameron had conflicting NZ Derby feelings on Full Count after they combined to win the Crockford Real Estate 1600 at Tauranga yesterday..
The old firm of Roger James and Vinnie Colgan will be reunited at Te Rapa on Saturday in a bid for Group Two success and a tilt at the Gr. 1 TV3 NZ Derby..
Cambridge trainer Roger James is hoping a win in a Rating 65 2100 metres at Te Rapa on Saturday will be enough to sneak Delago’s Secret into the Gr.1 $750,000 TV3 NZ Derby..
Class racemare Silent Achiever left no doubts that she’s on target for a Sydney autumn campaign when she and Shuka were paired in a stirring exhibition gallop at Ellerslie last evening..
Danielle Johnson knew her mother, Annabelle, would get a buzz from the debut win of Cambridge-trained Hollywood Lad in the Radio Hauraki 91FM 1300 at Tauranga today..
The prospects of smart Cambridge filly Miss Foxwood being at Ellerslie on Boxing Day for the Gr. 2 $100,000 Cambridge Stud Eight Carat Classic (1600m) are looking very slim..
Cambridge trainer Roger James had no joy with Miss Foxwood in the Gr. 1 NZ Bloodstock 1000 Guineas at Riccarton yesterday, but wins by Lady Cumquat and Hot In Pink at Tauranga put a smile on his face..
The Melbourne Spring Carnival is over for unlucky Cambridge mare Silent Achiever despite initial hopes of having one last-ditch attempt at Flemington on Saturday..
Cambridge trainer Roger James and owner Kevin Hickman were dealt a devastating blow yesterday when the decision was made Silent Achiever wouldn’t be fit to run in next Tuesday’s Gr. 1 $A6 million Emirates Melbourne Cup..
Roger James has a chance of a midweek trans-Tasman double ahead of the realistic prospect this Saturday of the Cambridge trainer celebrating his first Group One victory in Melbourne..
Cambridge trainer Roger James has booked crack Melbourne jockey Glen Boss to ride Silent Achiever in Saturday week's A$2.5 million Caulfield Cup, but has done so with angst for regular rider Steven Arnold..
Silent Achiever will be chasing an upset win in Saturday's Underwood Stakes to continue a run of success in the race for New Zealand horses in the Caulfield feature..
Stablemates Zonza and Misstrum showed at yesterday’s Cambridge trials they are ready to race, but trainer Roger James is prepared to wait for improved tracks..
Roger James heads into Saturday’s Gr.1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield with low expectations for his star mare Silent Achiever, but he is confident she is in for a productive spring racing carnival..
Cambridge trainer Roger James has claimed back-to-back Ellerslie Trainer of the Year titles when he was named Auckland Racing Club’s champion Trainer for the 2012-13 season..
Cambridge apprentice Lee Magorrian rode his first winner today at just his 8th raceday ride aboard the Ross McCarroll prepared Royal Sceptre at Ruakaka..
Champion trainer Roger James keenly anticipates the start of the 2013/2014 racing season, as he
considers the assignments ahead for his Cambridge based team..
Cambridge trainer Roger James was even more relieved than excited after Ocean Park’s half-sister Lady Sayyida broke through for a maiden win at Te Teko yesterday..
Cambridge trainer Roger James has plenty to think about as he plots an assault on the Sydney Autumn Carnival riches with brilliant kiwi mare Silent Achiever..
Roger James had to settle for fourth with Touch Win in the Group I $250,000 Levin Classic at Otaki today, but he looks set to enjoy a successful day tomorrow at Ellerslie.
An appeal by James McDonald added to the concerns for Cambridge trainer Roger James in the leadup to the final day of the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington today.
He's Remarkable, Silent Achiever and Full Of Spirit each goes into their Flemington feature-race assignments tomorrow in perfect condition, says Cambridge trainer Roger James
