Racing
Champion miler Mr Brightside (NZ) (Bullbars) has recovered well from minor surgery and will return to racing in the spring. Following a 2025 spring campaign that concluded with a fifth-placed finish in the Gr.1 Champions Mile at Flemington in November, Lindsay Park announced its stable star would be sidelined
Racing
It may have taken him longer than he would have liked, but apprentice jockey Donovan Cooper was rapt to record his 100th win in the saddle at Ascot Park on Sunday. The expat South African brought up the milestone in the opening race of the card aboard the Michael and
Breeding
Award-winning racing photographer Trish Dunell scored a sentimental victory last Saturday when her filly Fringes (NZ) (Niagara) took out the Gr.3 SA Fillies Classic (2546m) at Morphettville. While international stakes success is nothing new to Dunell, Saturday’s win meant more than most, with the filly named after her
The Ciaron Maher stable is acutely aware of the task confronting Jimmysstar (NZ) (Per Incanto) every time he steps out. The New Zealand-bred galloper is regarded one of Australia's best, but his racing pattern means he can be vulnerable. Jimmysstar has an enviable record, 11 wins from 26
Champion miler Mr Brightside (NZ) (Bullbars) has recovered well from minor surgery and will return to racing in the spring. Following a 2025 spring campaign that concluded with a fifth-placed finish in the Gr.1 Champions Mile at Flemington in November, Lindsay Park announced its stable star would be sidelined
The countdown to NZB’s 2026 National Weanling Sale is underway, with a high quality catalogue of 140 youngsters by New Zealand’s best stallions now available to view online at nzb.co.nz, with physical copies arriving in mailboxes soon. Set to be held on Thursday 25 June at
Whether Jimmysstar (NZ) (Per Incanto) runs in Saturday’s Gr.1 Doomben 10,000 or not, his stable is confident the remarkable galloper will find his way into the winner’s stall in Queensland this winter. Jimmysstar is without a win for the campaign for the first time since coming
Pride Of Jenni’s (Pride Of Dubai) runaway front-running heroics have brought racetrack crowds to their feet in Victoria and New South Wales over the past few years, and on Saturday it was Queensland’s turn. The Trelawney Stud-bred marvel did it again in the A$500,000 Gr.2
Desert Lightning (NZ) (Pride of Dubai) is now a Group One winner on both sides of the Tasman after prevailing in a nail-biting finish to the A$1 million Sportsbet Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Raced by Barneswood Farm’s Sarah Green and Ger Beemsterboer, Desert Lightning was guided
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Darryn and Briar Weatherley’s Group One winner Pier (NZ) (Proisir) is set to make a welcome return to their Matamata stable at the start of next month following a wind operation. The six-year-old son of Proisir had made a pleasing return over summer, finishing runner-up in the Gr.1
The countdown to NZB’s 2026 National Weanling Sale is underway, with a high quality catalogue of 140 youngsters by New Zealand’s best stallions now available to view online at nzb.co.nz, with physical copies arriving in mailboxes soon. Set to be held on Thursday 25 June at
It took Ciaron Maher only seconds to know Pride Of Jenni (Pride Of Dubai) was back to her best in last weekend’s Gr.2 Hollindale Stakes (1800m), with the champion trainer now setting his sights on the Gr.1 Doomben Cup (2000m). The iron mare registered her first win
Amateur jockey Alexandra Reed was dancing on air at Wanganui on Sunday after she made the perfect start to her riding career when winning aboard the Clinton Isdale-trainedAir Dancer (NZ)(Staphanos) in the Race Images Amateur Riders 2060. “It was a great feeling,” Reed said. Reed has ridden Air Dancer
Single Red (NZ) (Vanbrugh) got her Queensland campaign off to a pleasing start on Saturday when finishing runner-up to Nightline in the Listed Gold Coast Bracelet (1800m), and trainer Andrew Forsman is looking forward to what lies ahead for the daughter of Vanbrugh. The Group One performer jumped away well
A pair of Irish-bred mares by the great Fastnet Rock combined for a near perfect day at Arawa Park for Pencarrow Stud. The Cambridge nursery’s representative Churchillian (NZ) (Churchill) is the first foal of Fond De Coeur and headlined the program when she doubled her black-type tally with victory
In celebration of Mother’s Day, we’re shining a spotlight on the remarkable mares whose legacy has shaped the course of our thoroughbred racing history. Eulogy (GB) Ciecero x Kalibia Foaled: 1911 Notable Descendants: Bonecrusher, Vo Rogue, Il Tempo, Zephyr Bay, Show Gate, Beauty Generation, Dundeel Honours: New Zealand
Tom Charlton is set to split two of his stable big guns between states this weekend with Linebacker (NZ) (Super Seth) slated to tackle the Listed Luskin Star Stakes at Scone and promising sprinter Napoleonic the Gr.1 Doomben 10,000. While Linebacker has been nominated for both races, Charlton
Whether Jimmysstar (NZ) (Per Incanto) runs in Saturday’s Gr.1 Doomben 10,000 or not, his stable is confident the remarkable galloper will find his way into the winner’s stall in Queensland this winter. Jimmysstar is without a win for the campaign for the first time since coming
Shaun and Hazel Fannin may be without their star jumper Jesko this year, but Fourty Eight (NZ) (Ekraar) may fill that void following his impressive win in the Dr John D. Moore Memorial Open Steeplechase (3800m) at Wanganui on Sunday. It was a pleasing result for the Awapuni trainers, with
Never Look Back (NZ) (Shocking) made another winning start to the jumps season when taking out the Wanganui Insurance Brokers Open Hurdle (3000m) at Wanganui on Sunday. The seven-year-old son of Shocking was victorious at the exact same meeting last year where he won his maiden hurdle before going on
Tony and Maddysen Sears are counting down the days to the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) after a highly impressive audition at the Gold Coast on Saturday by their New Zealand-bred filly Nightline (NZ) (Redwood). The father-daughter training partnership teamed up with Paul Moroney Bloodstock and Catheryne Bruggeman to buy