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Flying three-year-old Poetic Champion (NZ) (Super Seth) will spearhead Tony Pike’s trio of sprinters contesting the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Almanzor Trophy (1200m) on Karaka Millions Night, staged this Saturday at Ellerslie. Poetic Champion was among the upper echelon of the country’s juveniles last season, placing in the
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Bryce Newman was in familiar territory when he picked up a double at Wanganui on Monday, but a new challenge is now on the horizon for the Bulls trainer as he prepares Abbakiss for Saturday’s $1 million TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m). An exciting week for Newman commenced as
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Since returning to race-riding in late 2023, Kelly Myers has re-established herself as one of the country’s top jockeys, earning an invitation to compete among the world’s best in the prestigious Saudi Cup – International Jockey’s Challenge (IJC) in Saudi Arabia next month. Myers has ridden more than
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Mapperley Stud principal Simms Davison is heading towards New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales on a winning note after breeding last Saturday’s Gr.3 Wellington Cup (3200m) victor Wolfgang. A son of Puccini, who stood at the Matamata nursery, Wolfgang was bred on the farm and offered for
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A Proisir filly out of Donna Marie put Hallmark Stud’s name up in lights at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales last year, and in a week’s time, Mark Baker is hoping for a similar result in the Karaka auditorium with Lot 564. Baker’s thoroughbred nursery
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Unbeaten three-year-old Dealt With (NZ) (Ace High) has booked himself a ticket to the big dance with victory in Sunday’s Elsdon Park 1400, but it wasn’t without a heart-stopping moment in the home straight for Roger James and Robert Wellwood. The son of Ace High debuted with a
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Corey Campbell knows his way around Wingatui Racecourse and the local hoop added another four winners to his formidable record at the track on Saturday. The 23-year-old achieved his first winning quartet at Wingatui over six years ago on Melbourne Cup Day, including three for his long-time employers Brian and
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An exciting period for stakes racing in the South Island is looming and trainer John Blackadder hopes Saturday’s Wingatui meeting can be a springboard to some feature contests for a pair of his talented gallopers. The Rangiora horseman will travel south with his stable star Ears Back, a seven-win
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The last time Leica Lucy tackled a three-year-old fillies mile at Trentham her rivals were no match, and she is looking to replicate that performance on Saturday when she contests the Gr.3 New Zealand Bloodstock Desert Gold Stakes (1600m). A filly by Derryn, Leica Lucy was a debut winner
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Swedish jockey Annie Lindahl has swiftly made her mark on the New Zealand racing scene, guiding home her first winner at Riccarton Park on Wednesday. Having just her seventh ride in the country, Lindahl partnered the John Blackadder-trained Quick Story in the Racecourse Hotel and Motor Lodge Rating 65 (2000m)
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Dual Group One-winning mare Belclare (NZ) (Per Incanto) made her first public appearance back on home soil at the Foxton trials on Tuesday, as she readies for a title defence in the Gr.2 Westbury Classic (1400m) on Karaka Millions Night next week. After failing to meet her $700,000
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Darryn Weatherley is unable to split his talented stayers Ess Vee Are (NZ) (Shocking) and Arby (NZ) (Proisir) ahead of Saturday’s Gr.3 NZ Campus Of Innovation And Sport Wellington Cup (3200m), and with the same ownership group in both horses, he would be happy to see either take