Breeding
This year’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale will be the final bow for one Waikato Stud stallion and a debut for another, but Savabeel remains an all-conquering constant. Savabeel has won the Grosvenor Award (champion New Zealand sire) for five consecutive seasons, as well as the Dewar and
New Zealand
Former top jockey Grant Cooksley is hoping to help maintain the recent strike rate of his apprentice, Masa Hashizume, at Avondale on Wednesday and also kick a $500,000 yearling purchase off on a winning note. Hashizume has notched three wins from his last seven rides and will be aboard
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Trainer Andrew Forsman on the future plans for Group Three winner Showbeel. https://soundcloud.com/trackside-radio/andrew-forsman-4
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https://soundcloud.com/trackside-radio/kozzi-asano-1 Jockey Kozzi Asano discusses his incredible run of form, which included eight winners in a row
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Jockey Trudy Thornton discusses the win of Soleseifei in the Gr.3 Wellington Cup (3200m) at Trentham https://soundcloud.com/trackside-radio/trudy-thornton-2
New Zealand
Consistent Group One galloper Wyndspelle (NZ) (Iffraaj) is likely to be aimed towards an elite level target on his home track after another strong performance when narrowly beaten into second in Saturday’s Gr.1 Thorndon Mile (1600m) behind all-the-way winner The Mitigator. The son of Iffraaj has won the
International
New Zealand Bloodstock graduates went close to taking out the two feature races in Hong Kong on Sunday night. Former Hong Kong Horse of the Year Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road To Rock), a graduate of Highden Park’s 2014 yearling draft, went close to winning the Gr.1 Steward’s
New Zealand
Quality mare Rondinella (NZ) (Ocean Park) will be back in action at Ellerslie on Saturday where she will contest the Gr.2 Westbury Classic (1400m) for trainers Roger James and Rob Wellwood. The five-year-old daughter of Ocean Park has been off the scene since a three-start Melbourne spring campaign, which
New Zealand
An approach made to former successful trainer Don Sellwood several years ago has led to a Taranaki couple, Rodger and Christine Hassall, having a strong involvement in Karaka Million night at Ellerslie on Saturday. Racing under the Hassall Family Trust ownership, Hasstobemagic will contest the Karaka Million 2YO Classic (1200m)
New Zealand
Shaune Ritchie came close to a big double at Trentham on Saturday, but left the meeting knowing his smart filly Jennifer Eccles (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle) is still on the right path for a return trip to the course in March to contest the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai
Breeding
The excitement over the Karaka Million twilight meeting is already high for The Oaks Stud, but it could provide an even greater boost for the Cambridge establishment leading into this year’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales at Karaka. One of the Ellerslie features on Saturday, the Gr.3
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