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Previously a five-time placegetter at Group level, classy mare Our Alley Cat (NZ) (Atlante) broke through and secured her first stakes win in style in Saturday’s Gr.3 Valley D’Vine Restaurant Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings. The seven-year-old daughter of Atlante went into the $120,000 feature as
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Respected New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock has always seen Ladies Man (NZ) (Zed) as a superstar in waiting, and Saturday’s Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) marked the big gelding’s arrival on the major stage. The lightly raced six-year-old overpowered his elite weight-for-age opposition at Hastings, joining his half-sister
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Livamol Classic Day at Hastings got off to an action-packed start on Saturday, with a dead heat and a protest before Cannon Hill (NZ) (Ardrossan) was declared an outright winner of the Tims Construction Premier (1300m). The $65,000 race for three-year-olds was won by subsequent dual Oaks heroine Pennyweka
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Four weeks on from an eye-catching placing in the Listed Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m), promising filly Warning Signal is set to relish the extra distance of Saturday’s Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton. A well-bred daughter of U S Navy Flag and the stakes-performed Iffraaj mare La
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The heavy ground that has carried Mustang Valley to two spectacular Group One victories will be nowhere to be seen at Hastings on Saturday, but trainer Andrew Forsman is confident that drier conditions will pose no problems for his stable star’s defence of her Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m)
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Million-dollar earner Riodini will make his first New Zealand appearance in almost four years when he lines up in the Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215m) at Rotorua on Sunday. The Proisir gelding began his career in the Pukekohe stable of Nigel Tiley, making a winning debut as a winter two-year-old
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Petrucci made the perfect start to her preparation at her home track of Matamata on Saturday when taking out the Colchester Engineering LTD (1200m). The daughter of I Am Invincible was resuming following a pleasing three-year-old season where she won two of her four starts and was runner-up in the
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Two weeks after a luckless run over the same course and distance, well-related local mare Candyflip (NZ) (Kermadec) turned her fortunes around in style in Saturday’s Fairview Motors Matamata Maiden (1400m). Trained by Michael Moroney and Pam Gerard, the Kermadec mare has tended to get back in the running
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Foxton trainer Chrissy Bambry admits to having a few doubts about Kingfisher Lad (Unencumbered) when she took him to Hawera for Saturday’s NZ Farmers Livestock Ltd Egmont Cup (2100m), but he came out on top with one of the toughest performances of his 26-start, six-win career. The six-year-old son
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With a dominant home-track performance in Saturday’s Listed Team Wealleans Matamata Cup (1600m), Legarto has put last week’s weather woes behind her and set her sights on Sydney. The exceptional daughter of Proisir was a Group One winner on both sides of the Tasman as a three-year-old last
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Fresh off a 73-0 win against Uruguay in Lyon, All Black Anton Lienert-Brown kept his winning momentum going, but this time as a member of the Te Akau All Too Much Racing Partnership syndicate, who own Insatiable, the winner of the Jon Snow & Echoes Of Heaven @ Clearview Park (1200m)
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Hawera and Matamata have been the beneficiaries of some unexpected circumstances this spring, with two of New Zealand’s most exciting racehorses having a change of plan and adding star quality to this weekend’s black-type features. While last weekend’s wet weather was the deciding factor in Legarto switching