Racing
Helena Baby’s winning streak may have come to an end last start when finishing fifth in the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m), but jockey Donavan Mansour believes he has improved since that run. The John Bell-trained gelding had won his previous five starts and Mansour’s only concern heading
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Good evening, It’s been just sixty days since the establishment of the Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) and a timely opportunity to update you on progress against the Reform Programme the Board are advancing on behalf of the Minister for Racing. Our strategic focus is set out very clearly
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Magnum will kick-off his spring campaign at Ruakaka on Saturday. Cambridge trainer Lauren Brennan has Magnum right where she wants him ahead of his first-up run in Saturday's Harcourts Whangarei 1200 at Ruakaka. Brennan produced the Per Incanto gelding for a fresh-up win in the same race last
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Former Riverton galloper Flying Sardine will have her first start in Australia at Caulfield on Saturday. Riverton trainer Kelvin Tyler has sent seven-year-old mare Flying Sardine across the Tasman and the 11-time winner will make her Australian debut for ex-pat Kiwi trainer Rachael Frost when she contests the Clanbrooke Racing
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Helena Baby Helena Baby’s winning streak may have come to an end last start when finishing fifth in the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m), but jockey Donavan Mansour believes he has improved since that run. The John Bell-trained gelding had won his previous five starts and Mansour’s only
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Quick Thinker is on a path to the Gr.1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) Prominent syndication company OTI Racing is enjoying a good run of form with horses from New Zealand and they are hoping to see a positive start to an Australian campaign from the Murray Baker and Andrew
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Three-year-old filly Sorceress made an eye-catching winning debut at Ashburton on Friday in the Barneswood Farm Stakes Day 19th October (1250m). Despite greenness the three-year-old daughter of showcasing showed a good turn of foot to distance her rivals by in excess of five-lengths, at odds of $63.60. “She’s
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Beauty Generation enjoyed a record-breaking campaign last term. Beauty Generation has enjoyed his summer downtime judging by the sheen of his coat and the barreling depth to his girth. “I don't think I’ve ever seen him look this fat, to be honest. He’s a big boy,
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Co-trainer Karen Parsons is pleased with both Touchabeel and Sombra Deamor ahead of their first assignments this season. Balcairn trainers John and Karen Parsons will kick-off the three-year-old campaigns for Touchabeel and Sombra Deamor in the Barneswood Farm Stakes Day 19th October (1250m) at Ashburton on Friday and their performances
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Humidor Humidor will attempt to defend his title in the Gr.1 New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday. The New Zealand-bred and owned gelding has been on the sidelines with injury since his third-placing in the Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) last October and Ciaron Maher,
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Glamour Waverley trainer Bill Thurlow picked up a win at his local meeting on Thursday when three-year-old filly Glamour took out the Ultra Scan 1000. It was the second start for the daughter of Pins who finished third on debut at Ashburton last month. Jockey Rosie Myers pushed forward early