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Pour The Wine heads into Saturday’s NHR Group (1300m) at Ellerslie with an impressive course record, and trainer Barbara Kennedy hopes there could be bigger assignments in store at the Auckland track. Racing in the two-tone blue colours of breeder and co-owner Daniel Nakhle, Pour The Wine has had
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Midnight Blue has proven to be an astute purchase by Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis, and the eight-year-old gelding is looking to continue to prove his worth in New Zealand. Ellis purchased the son of So You Think as a tried horse from Inglis Digital in November last year
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The best will be seen of promising colt Bourbon Proof when he transitions to middle distance racing, but he is still more than capable of making his presence felt over a shorter trip on Saturday. The son of Justify has yet to breakthrough and his timing will be immaculate if
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Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray collected their second Group Three success in a matter of days at Otaki on Thursday, with Tuxedo(NZ) (Tivaci) stamping himself as an early Derby prospect when winning the Gr.3 Elsdon Park Wellington Stakes (1600m). The Cambridge training partnership won last Saturday’s Gr.
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A tilt at the $1 million TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie in January is on the cards for promising juvenile Romanoff(NZ) (Belardo) following his maiden victory in the Uza Bus Two-Year-Old (1100m) at Otaki on Thursday. The son of Belardo showed plenty of inexperience on debut at
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Otaki trainer Johno Benner will be hoping for a late Christmas present when he heads to Ellerslie on Boxing Day with his promising gelding Tikemyson(NZ) (Highly Recommended). The five-year-old son of Highly Recommended is on track to contest the Dunstan Horse Feeds Stayers’ Championship Final (2400m) after recording his
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Idyllic is far from what Kate Hercock would describe the past 10 days, but a speedy mare with that name afforded her a moment of solace in Thursday’s Rose City Cars Levin Stakes (1200m) at Otaki. Hercock tragically lost her fiancé Danny Champion last Monday and the Otaki meeting
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Explosive filly Hankee Alpha(NZ) (Proisir) made a big statement at Te Aroha on Wednesday, with a phenomenal performance putting her firmly in the conversation for the major three-year-old races this season. Hankee Alpha caught plenty of attention on debut in late October, putting over six lengths on a field
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Bill Thurlow will have mixed feelings when gifted filly Movin Out(NZ) (Staphanos) leaves his stable for Australia this weekend. The Waverley trainer confirmed the sale of the lightly raced three-year-old, who has been purchased by thoroughbred powerhouse Yulong and will join Chris Waller’s operation. Movin Out was raced
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Timaru trainer Leonard Stewart had a successful trip to Cromwell 12 months ago, and he hopes for more of the same with a number of runners heading to the two-day carnival on Friday and Sunday. His seven-race winning mare Vague(NZ) (Tobique) finished second in last year’s equivalent of
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Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray’s stayer Nereus(NZ) (Savabeel) carried the colours of Waikato Stud to win last Saturday’s Gr.3 Counties Cup (2100m), and at Te Aroha on Wednesday, their exciting three-year-old Tycoon Prince(NZ) (Written Tycoon) put Cambridge Stud’s name to the forefront with an
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Waikato hoop Darren Danis is on the sidelines once more after sustaining a fractured neck following an incident at the Waipa trials last Monday. Danis was about to ride Beau Miller in his first trial for trainer Janenne Dalley, but the three-year-old gelding showed his greenness when entering the gates