Of the 15 nominations for the Gr.1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington, champion trainer Chris Waller has a third. Aeliana, Autumn Boy, Birdman, Buckaroo and Ohope Wins have been entered with barrier draws and race shape to eventually determine if all take their place. Waller has won the
Mr Brightside (NZ) (Bullbars) is racing for a piece of Australian racing history in Saturday’s Gr.1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) as the ‘’peaking’’ nine-year-old makes an attempt at a fourth straight victory in the Group One race. Co-trainer Ben Hayes said Mr Brightside’s first
The world’s premier sprinter Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress) has turned in possibly his greatest performance to date when he smashed the Sha Tin 1200-metre course record on Sunday by a full second to record his 21st consecutive victory. Ka Ying Rising easily beat his own track record
Superstar mare Well Written (Written Tycoon) was back to the business of winning when she triumphed in the first race of her four-year-old campaign, the Gr.1 Proisir Plate (1400m) at Ellerslie. Unbeaten in six starts in her first season on the track, the Stephen Marsh-trained daughter
Metropolitan fancy Thebudgiesmugla (NZ) (Redwood) is unbeaten in five starts over 2400 metres and he will be out to make it six when he lines up in the Listed Drinkwise Cup (2400m) at Randwick. The six-year-old was one of the revelations of the off-season, winning three of
Chris Wood won the Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4300m) as a jockey in 1980 aboard Le Roy (NZ) (Sovereign Ruler), and 46 years on he matched that feat as a trainer courtesy of Smug (NZ) (Complacent) in Thursday’s The Valley Toyota-sponsored feature. The nine-year-old son of Complacent
Roger James and Robert Wellwood will launch the spring campaigns of a trio of quality gallopers at Ellerslie on Saturday, headed by Group One-winning mare She’s A Dealer (NZ) (Ace High) in the Gr.1 Proisir Plate (1400m). She’s A Dealer established her top-flight credentials last
The emergence of unbeaten filly Proxima Dea (Tarzino) has added another chapter to a breeding venture that began with the racetrack deeds of outstanding mare Montefilia and has its sights set firmly on producing elite middle-distance horses. Proxima Dea, a daughter of Westbury Stud stallion Tarzino and Redoute’s
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Yulong Investments will have a strong New Zealand flavour to its spring assault, with quality mares Well Written and Ohope Wins both poised for major assignments on either side of the Tasman. Unbeaten four-year-old Well Written (Written Tycoon) will put her perfect record on the line when she
The catalogue for the world’s leading two-year-old sale is now online, with New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2026 Ready to Run Sale set to take place at Karaka on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 November. Peerless by every measure, NZB’s Ready to Run Sale graduates have won
Moments after the post-race cheers for Beiwacht had died down as the Gr.1 Memsie Stakes field returned to scale, another mounting yard celebration roared into action. It didn’t come from the stable of the runaway winner, but rather from another large group of connections who could have
With bigger and better things pencilled in for later in the spring, the lightly raced Mr Miller (NZ) (Almanzor) continued his impressive progress through the grades with another easy win in Saturday’s A$160,000 Bankstown Sports Handicap (1500m) at Rosehill. The New Zealand-bred Almanzor gelding was a