AUDIO: Racing HQ with Steve Hewlett
Crocetti, the rising star of NZ racing, is likely Sydney bound this Spring. Trainer Danny Walker says the Golden Eagle is a race the team have earmarked at this stage.
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Gosford Gold Cup completes black-type double for Asterix
Former Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) winner Asterix (NZ) (Tavistock) took 11 races and more than a year to record his first stakes victory in Australia, but now he has gone back-to-back. The seven-year-old added a supreme weight-carrying performance in Saturday’s A$300,000 Listed Guardian Safety Solutions
Blue-blooded Monopolistic stakes Queensland Derby claim
An impressive come-from-behind performance at Gosford on Saturday has the well-related Monopolistic (NZ) (Savabeel) on target for the Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m). The New Zealand-bred son of Savabeel was bought for A$500,000 from the draft of breeders Windsor Park Stud at the 2024 Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Fringes to the fore in Fillies’ Classic
A move across the Tasman has reaped rewards for New Zealand filly Fringes (NZ) (Niagara), who impressively won the A$170,000 Gr.3 Ken and Helen Smith SA Fillies’ Classic (2546m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Bred and raced by renowned New Zealand racing photographer Trish Dunell, Fringes began her
Churchillian too strong in Rotorua Stakes
Cambridge mareChurchillian (NZ)(Churchill) left her rivals in her wake when claiming her second victory at stakes level in the Gr.3 Rotorua ITM Stakes (1400m) on Saturday. The Tony Pike-prepared six-year-old looked to be one of many pace influences in the contest, but once rider Joe Doyle took her