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Book 1 of Karaka 2020 looms as a pivotal few days for Haunui Farm stallions Belardo and Iffraaj. The top-tier session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales will feature six yearlings from the first crop of exciting young shuttle stallion Belardo, while representation has soared to an all-time
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Triple Group One winner Turn Me Loose, one of Australasia’s fastest and toughest milers, joined Windsor Park Stud’s stallion roster in Cambridge in 2017, with his yearlings being offered at Karaka for the first time next month. From an internationally successful family, Turn Me Loose is a son
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Sam and Libby Bleakley of Highden Park will hold a yearling parade at their Manawatu property ahead of the New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sales, which will begin on January 26. The Manawatu farm will showcase their 11 strong Book 1 and 2 draft, which include progeny of sires Tavistock, American
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Group One sprinter Tivaci joined Waikato Stud’s outstanding stallion roster in 2017 where he stands for a fee of $20,000+gst, and his first yearlings will be offered at Karaka in January. He is a son of High Chaparral and out of the Fastnet Rock mare Breccia, who
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He may have just won his first stakes race, but in the eyes of those close to him, Justamaiz (NZ) (Guillotine) has been a champ since the day he was born. The son of Guillotine and the winning Desert Sun mare Arthena scored an all the way win in last
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Waikato bloodstock agent Stuart Hale’s annual Auckland/Waikato yearling inspection tour will return in 2020. The week-long tour will commence on Sunday, January 5, and include visits to 30 farms, with inspections of more than 750 yearlings. The tour will depart daily from BP Cambridge, 98 Victoria St Upper,
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With Charm Spirit in stellar form and a new wave of stallions approaching their yearling debuts, the festive period has some extra shine this year for the team at Windsor Park Stud. Multiple Group One winner Charm Spirit has been shuttling to Windsor Park since 2015, and his oldest southern
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Eminent Australian owner Francis Cook has returned to New Zealand this week, the source of one of his standout racetrack performers. Cook and his wife Christine have enjoyed sensational success over the last few seasons. Their tally of Group One victories has soared into double digits thanks to the likes
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Right from the time he was a foal Riodini (NZ) (Proisir), the winner of the recent Gr.3 Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m), was a horse with charisma. “He was one of those foals with a personality a bit different from the rest, he always looked for you when you went in
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Group One-winning mare Consensus (NZ) (Postponed) set an Australasian online auction record on Monday night when she sold on gavelhouse.com to Yulong Investments for $622,500. The daughter of Postponed raced across six seasons for 11 wins, six of those at stakes level, including the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic
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Wyndspelle’s (NZ) breakthrough Group One win topped off a big day at Trentham on Saturday for Haunui Farm. In winning the Gr.1 Captain Cook Stakes (1600m), Wyndspelle became the 10thindividual Group One winner for the Haunui Farm-based sire Iffraaj. Three races earlier on the programme Haunui Farm, as
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Cambridge Stud stallion Burgundy was put down at the Waikato farm on Friday, having contracted acute laminitis in his front feet. His condition had deteriorated over the past 72 hours and the decision was made between the major partners that he should not suffer further. Burgundy was a $1.3