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Another powerhouse front-running performance by Grinzinger Belle in Saturday’s A$300,000 Gr.2 Packaging Needs Sunline Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley has earned her a Group One opportunity in Sydney. The fillies and mares’ feature was the fourth stakes win for the New Zealand-bred Shamexpress mare, who had
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Two hours after his close relative Vegas Queen won Saturday’s Gr.2 Wellington Guineas (1400m) at Trentham, quality New Zealand-bred gelding Gringotts took the family’s day to even greater heights with an Australian Group One triumph in the A$1 million George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill. Gringotts
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Another commanding performance in Saturday’s A$500,000 Gr.2 DCE Alister Clark Stakes (2040m) at Moonee Valley has booked rising star three-year-old Shanwah a shot at the Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) ahead of his move to Hong Kong. A $750,000 Karaka yearling purchase by Cameron Cooke
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New Zealand-bred mare Basilinna capitalised on the reprogramming of the Yarra Valley Cup (2040m) to Moonee Valley on Saturday, scoring a hard-fought win in her first start of a new campaign. The Yarra Valley Cup was originally scheduled to be run over 1950m last Sunday, but the meeting was called
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Ciaron Maher is backing in the class of Group 1 Oakleigh Plate winner Jimmysstar (NZ) (Per Incanto) ahead of his Valley debut in Saturday's $1 million William Reid Stakes. A new fresh-is-best approach has seen Maher stick to a sprinting path with the son of Per Incanto, having
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Retired superstar Imperatriz will have a race named in her honour from this season's Cox Plate Day forward, with the program's existing open 1000-metre handicap now titled the Imperatriz Sprint. The event's prizemoney will be increased from $150,000 to $200,000 and will
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Leading trainer Mick Price says Public Attention's (NZ) (Written Tycoon) racing days could be as a sprinter, with doubts over whether the grey colt sees out a strong longer trip. The Written Tycoon colt won first-up over 1200m and ran well in the Gr.2 Hobartville Stakes (1400m)
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Vistetto is the latest of a trio of young stayers to have kicked off their careers in exciting fashion in Australia for New Zealand-based syndicators Go Racing in recent weeks. The Chris Waller-trained four-year-old was a dominant winner over 1950m at Yarra Valley on Sunday at just his second start,
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The fresh is best mantra will again be enacted for the Ciaron Maher-trained Jimmysstar (NZ) (Per Incanto) when he tackles Saturday’s Gr.1 William Reid Stakes (1200m) at The Valley. Maher’s national assistant trainer Jack Turnbull said it worked to perfection when Jimmysstar stormed over the top of
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Syndicator Joe O’Neill has enjoyed the results over summer with his two-year-olds, but it’s the prospect of having a champion hurdler with The Cunning Fox (NZ) (Reliable Man) which is whetting his appetite for the future. O’Neill watched the undefeated jumper trial at Cranbourne on Thursday when
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Now that Wrote To Arataki (NZ) (Wrote) has ticked off the 1600 metres box she will return to that trip in next Saturday’s Gr.2 Sunline Stakes (1600m) at The Valley. After Wrote To Arataki won the Gr.3 Frances Tressady Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on February 15, Trainer
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Seven-year-old mare Electric Belle (NZ) (Power) has yielded a bumper pay day for trainer Reece Goodwin and his owners in the A$250,000 Country Mile Series Final (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday. The Kiwi-bred daughter of Power came from well-back under a well-timed ride by Damian Lane to land