Breeding
Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 National Yearling Sales Series are now open with the Sale set to take place next summer at the Karaka Sales Centre from Sunday 24 January until Friday 29 January. With an established reputation of producing world-class thoroughbreds, graduates of the National Yearling Sales
Australia
Adelaide trainer Gordon Richards is hopeful the decision to wait an extra week for a Flemington race with Miss Mandito (NZ) (Zacinto) will be rewarded when the mare makes her latest Melbourne appearance. Miss Mandito won last year's Leilani Series Final at Flemington when trained in Victoria by
Australia
Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Danny O'Brien expects to get a better guide on New Zealand stakes performer Run To Perfection (Sepoy) when the colt makes his second Australian appearance at Flemington. O'Brien has Run To Perfection in Saturday's Listed AR Creswick Stakes (1200m) for three-year-olds
Australia
A breakout season could get even better for Bjorn Baker when the trainer heads to Randwick with a team of well-credentialled horses. Baker is enjoying his best term, this month bringing up a milestone 50 metropolitan winners, smashing his previous season best tally of 38. A Group One Winx Stakes
New Zealand
Saturday’s Counties meeting will mark thoroughbred racing’s return in New Zealand and while a lot of trainers are excited to be back, the day will mean a little bit more to Team Rogerson. Bailey Rogerson has elected to surrender her trainer’s license and leave the Team Rogerson
New Zealand
It’s been a long time between runners for Te Aroha trainers Keith and Gavin Opie. The father-son training partnership have not had a runner since January 3 and are hoping to make up for lost opportunity with a four-strong team set to show their wares at Counties on Saturday
Australia
The art of training is knowing the ability of your horses and where to place them to reap the rewards. Lindsay Park has a pair of two-year-old fillies engaged in the Rod Johnson Handicap at Flemington on Saturday in the hope they will make it to a black-type race in
International
Top quality sprinting colt Hello Youmzain (Kodiac) is in fine fettle ahead of Saturday’s Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes (1200m) at Royal Ascot where he will sport the colours of part-owner Cambridge Stud for the first time. The stallion prospect is prominent in the betting markets for the feature
Racing
The countdown to the third edition of Australia’s longest flat race, The Jericho Cup (4600m), has commenced with the confirmation of its 2020 date and the qualifying races guaranteeing an automatic start. The race, which commemorates Australian and New Zealand’s light horse involvement in World War 1, is
New Zealand
Promising jumper Trisha Lea (NZ) (Zed) will kick-off her winter campaign at Pukekohe on Saturday, but it is at another Auckland track trainer Kylie Little is hoping the mare will feature prominently in the coming months. The eight-year-old accrued seven wins on the flat before transitioning to jumps racing, where
New Zealand
Trainer Stephen Ralph can’t wait to be back at the races this weekend, with up to eight runners set to represent his Te Awamutu stable at the Counties meeting at Pukekohe Park on Saturday. Full fields and 11 races are the order of a bumper day, which marks the
Breeding
Gordon Cunningham’s Curraghmore will offer a select draft of six weanlings through New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale which is set to conclude via online auction Gavelhouse Plus on Sunday from 3pm. Cunningham was taking many positives from the new format and believes the online auction was equating