New Zealand
A brilliant front-running ride by Opie Bosson aboard rugged stayer In A Twinkling saw the pair combine to take out the Gr.3 Ssangyong Counties Cup (2100m). Sporting the tangerine and blue colours of Te Akau Racing, In A Twinkling and Bosson dictated play from the moment the field
New Zealand
Underrated mare Its Destinys Child upset the apple-cart to provide rider Sam Spratt with a winning black-type double at Pukekohe on Saturday when taking out the Listed Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m). Spratt had piloted Yearn to victory in the Gr.2 Dunstan Feeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes
New Zealand
Ultra-consistent galloper Yearn finally put it all together in stakes company to record a deserved success at Group level when she took out the Gr.2 Dunstan Feeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Pukekohe on Saturday. The Karen Fursdon-trained Savabeel mare had previously finished in the placings
New Zealand
Impeccably bred two-year-old Unition showed plenty of grit as he made a winning debut at Pukekohe on Saturday when he took out the Listed Fasttrack Insurance 5K Bonus 2YO Stakes (1100m). The Fastnet Rock colt, who races in the colours of his owner and breeder the China Horse
Australia
A brace of wins over staying distances led Joe Pride down the garden path with Tamarack (NZ) (Redwood) but he has done an about-face on his assessment of the horse this campaign. The six-year-old was earmarked as a stayer after posting two 2400-metre wins last spring
New Zealand
Cambridge horseman Glen Harvey is loving being back in New Zealand and is fulfilling a life-long ambition. The 30-year-old became a licensed trainer only a few months ago and will send out his first stakes runner when two-year-old filly Beaune (Kermadec) contests Saturday’s Listed
New Zealand
Fresh from a two-day visit to Karaka for the Ready To Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds, Palmerston North trainer Lisa Latta will look to a graduate of last year's sale to anchor a big team at Awapuni on Saturday. Latta will produce Lincoln's Kruz
Australia
The lure of a one million purse has been too attractive for leading Sydney trainer Chris Waller. The expat Kiwi horseman will line-up three runners in the A$1 million The Gong at Kembla Grange on Saturday, including New Zealand-bred gelding Star Of The Seas (NZ) (Ocean Park)
Breeding
New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series catalogues are now online. The sales series has attracted a strong catalogue of 1265 yearlings, including 677 lots in the select Book 1 Sale. The Sale week will once again begin with the popular Karaka Million race meeting at Ellerslie Racecourse on
Breeding
There was plenty of interest in lot 375, the Shamus Award colt out of stakes-placed mare Exchanges (Domesay), on the second day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale of 2YOs, but when the dust settled it was Andrew Williams who came out on top. The Sydney-
New Zealand
Otaki trainer Johno Benner is hoping to see consistent galloper Wyndspelle (NZ) (Iffraaj) bounce back from a disappointing run in Melbourne when he contests Saturday’s John Turkington Forresty Ltd/Wai Pine Bulls Country Cup (1400m) at Awapuni. Wyndspelle finished 17th behind Fierce Impact in the Gr.1 Toorak Handicap
Breeding
Cambridge Bloodstock agent Garry Carvell has had plenty of success with progeny of Per Incanto he has acquired from Karaka, and he went back to the same well on Thursday. He purchased two sons by the Little Avondale Stud stallion for Hong Kong-based clients on the second day of