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The South Island’s reigning champion stable will be out in force when the Grand National Carnival kicks off at Riccarton on Saturday. Michael and Matthew Pitman topped last season’s South Island trainers’ premiership with 54 wins, earning themselves a sixth-place finish overall on the national standings. The father-son
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Dusty Road (NZ) (Shamexpress) gave Graeme Cameron his first taste of Group One racing last year, and the Cambridge owner-trainer is keen to shoot for the stars again after a dominant performance in Saturday’s Woods Contracting (1400m) at Te Rapa. Cameron arrived at Te Rapa on Saturday with eight
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Robbie Patterson is excited about what the future might hold for Read About It after the lightly raced two-year-old outclassed his opposition in Saturday’s Listed Phil’s Electrical & Gipsy Caravans Ryder Stakes (1200m) at Otaki. The season-ending juvenile feature was only the second career start for Read About
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Te Rapa has been the scene of plenty of this season’s success for Wexford Stables, and Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott are hoping to bring 2023-24 to a close with more of the same at the Hamilton track on Saturday. Coming to the end of their 11th season
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Back and refreshed after escaping some of the coldest weeks of the New Zealand winter, Stephen Marsh is hoping the final weekend of 2023-24 will give his stable some momentum to take into the new season. The Cambridge trainer has enjoyed another outstanding year and went into Friday’s Riccarton
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A return to Riccarton is looming large on the horizon for reigning Grand National winners West Coast and Berry The Cash, who have been entered for a pair of 2200m races on the flat at Waverley on Sunday. The Mark Oulaghan-trained stablemates have been off the scene since Hawke’s
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Gavin Opie’s last visit to Hawera ended before it began, but the Te Aroha trainer hopes an unexpected return to the South Taranaki track on Tuesday will produce a much better outcome. Opie had Just A Tipple and Mister Pucci entered for Saturday’s Opunake Cup meeting at New
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Emerging Waverley trainer Erin Hocquard will have her first taste of black-type racing when her stable star Spencer (NZ) (Derryn) lines up as favourite in Saturday’s Listed Sinclair Electrical & Refrigeration Opunake Cup (1400m) at New Plymouth. Hocquard has trained 13 winners since taking out her licence in the
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Having already equalled his highest number of wins in a season, Cambridge trainer Clint Isdale is hoping to break new ground with one of his runners at Rotorua or New Plymouth on Saturday. Isdale has held a licence since the 2015-16 season and has trained a total of 58 winners,
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Local marvel Justaskme (NZ) (No Excuse Needed) will attempt to become the first three-time winner of the Listed Sinclair Electrical & Refrigeration Opunake Cup (1400m) when he contests the $100,000 feature for the fourth time at New Plymouth on Saturday. Justaskme won the race in both 2021 and 2023,
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With or without the unbeaten Dan Vegas (NZ) (Per Incanto), Ruakaka trainers Kenny Rae and Krystal Williams have been unstoppable in three-year-old races on their home track this winter. That trend continued on Saturday with Tide And Time (NZ) (Time Time) taking out the $60,000 ITM/Gib 3YO Winter
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The class of Group One performer Malt Time (Adelaide) shone through again at Ruakaka on Saturday, recovering from a sluggish start to score a runaway win in the ITM/Gib Sprinters’ Winter Championship Final (1400m). Malt Time was sent out as a $2.30 favourite for the $60,000 sprint