Breeding
Group One winner Super Seth (Dundeel) will retire to Waikato Stud this season, giving breeders access to the first Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) winner to stand in New Zealand in three decades. Super Seth won five of his 12 career starts, highlighted by his victory in last year’s
Australia
It might have been a lowly 1400m maiden at Terang on Sunday, but the 5-1/2 length demolition by lightly-tried galloper Paddy Mac (NZ) (Raise The Flag) provides cause for optimism for the connections of the recent Kiwi import. A four-year-old son of Raise The Flag, Paddy Mac was well
New Zealand
An Australian spring campaign is beckoning Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) winner Jennifer Eccles (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle). The classy filly conquered all before her in her three-year-old term, recording four victories and four placings from just nine starts, including wins in the Gr.2 Eight Carat Classic (1600m)
New Zealand
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has released a proposed calendar for August through to early November to give owners, trainers and racing participants some certainty for the next six months. This follows the RITA announcement for consultation of the revised racing calendar for the balance of the 2019/20 racing
Breeding
Novara Park, near Cambridge, have announced that service fees will remain unchanged for the forthcoming 2020 breeding season for their exciting young stallion duo of Sweynesse and Staphanos. Sweynesse is the Leading New Zealand First Season Sire on earnings, winners and stakes-winners and while in previous years this would normally
New Zealand
Les Jarvis, a former jockey and trainer who died last Saturday, can take credit for paving the way for two of New Zealand’s most courageous gallopers, the little champ McGinty and the iron horse sprinter Oranmore. Jarvis (87) passed away in Tauranga Hospital, just down the road from the
International
New Zealand-bred star Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road To Rock) is facing a strong challenge for Hong Kong’s Horse of the Year award this season and anything but a record third straight victory in the HK$20 million Gr.1 Champions Mile (1600m) on Sunday could see the crown go
New Zealand
Cambridge trainer Ben Foote is finding a silver lining to New Zealand’s strict lockdown measures under Covid-19 Alert level 4. With the nation poised to ease restrictions next week, which will likely enable a return to full-training, Foote has said there have been some benefits from the down time.
Australia
Westbury Stud stallion Reliable Man bolstered his CV on the weekend when his son Kinane (NZ) took out the Gr.3 Frank Packer Plate (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday. The Chris Waller-trained gelding has now recorded two wins from just four starts and with Saturday’s victory he became his
New Zealand
The announcement this afternoon by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, that New Zealand would move to Alert Level 3 from 11.59pm on Monday, 27 April, was greeted with cautious optimism by NZTR. The Prime Minister said that following two weeks at Alert level 3, a further review and alert level
Australia
It has been 22 months since Manolo Blahniq (NZ) (Jimmy Choux) last raced in Sydney but Mornington trainer Tony Noonan is looking forward to the gelding's return to Rosehill. Noonan, who won Saturday's $427,500 VOBIS Sires Guineas with filly Florent at Caulfield, is planning to
Breeding
The first-ever New Zealand Bloodstock sale to be conducted on gavelhouse.com’s new online platform, Gavelhouse Plus, will be NZB’s annual South Island Sale. Postponed from its original April date to August due to the COVID-19 lockdown and travel restrictions, the decision has now been made to sell