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Imperatriz’s (I Am Invincible) impending trip across the Tasman is full of optimism following her pleasing hit-out at the Taupo trials on Wednesday. The multiple Group One winner sat in just behind the speed for jockey Opie Bosson, who wasn’t lured into the strong tempo set upfront by
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Group One winner La Crique (NZ) (Vadamos) showed a change in home has done nothing to hinder her spring preparation when she put in an eye-catching runner-up performance in her 1100m heat at the Taupo trials on Wednesday. The daughter of Vadamos settled off the pace for jockey Craig Grylls,
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Jumps jockey Sam Mynott was rapt to score her first win aboard Mondorani (NZ) (Burgundy) in the KT Myers Racing Stables Steeplechase (3500m) at Arawa Park on Tuesday, but it wasn’t without drama. The 26-year-old hoop kept the former Gr.3 New Zealand Cup (3200m) victor safe out wide
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Jakama Krystal (NZ) (Jakkalberry) put on a jumping clinic at Arawa Park on Tuesday when comfortably taking out the Team Wealleans Hurdle (3000m). Jockey Stephan Karnicnik took a positive approach with the eight-year-old mare, sending her straight to the front where he was able to dictate the pace of the
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Leading apprentice jockey Kelsey Hannan is heading across the Tasman this week to test the waters in Australia, where she will be on loan to Murray Bridge trainer Michael Hickmott. Indentured in New Zealand to Cambridge trainer Shaun Phelan, Hannan had a standout season last term, winning 66 races despite
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Stakes-winning filly Loch Katrine (NZ) (Ardrossan) will kick-off the new season for a new stable when she heads to Taupo on Wednesday. Formerly in the care of Matamata trainer Daniel Miller, the Adrossan filly placed in her first two starts as a juvenile before taking out the Listed Champagne Stakes
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Cambridge trainer Ken Harrison is dreaming of bigger things with Husk and King Khan following their quinella in the PSP 2000 at New Plymouth on Saturday. The trip was a scouting mission ahead of Road To The Jericho (3210m) at the Taranaki venue next month, with qualification for the A$
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Guy Lowry is hoping fitness will be on Wewillrock’s side when he heads to Te Rapa on Saturday to contest the Gr.2 Waikato Stud Foxbridge Plate (1200m). The five-year-old gelding has been campaigning in Sydney over winter in the care of Randwick trainer John O’Shea, where he
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Brian Crow spent a decade away from training, but he is now having the time of his life with the horse who brought him back to the game he loves. The New Plymouth horseman began training at the turn of the century and recorded 20 wins over the next decade
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There will be a distinct Hong Kong flavour to Caitlin McKee’s training debut this weekend. McKee and her partner, jumps jockey Nick Downs, have been rehoming former Hong Kong gallopers over the last few years and recently decided to chance their arm with a couple of repatriated geldings. “We
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Brontes Gold (NZ) (Zacinto) continued his great association with Cambridge’s synthetic track on Wednesday when winning the Saddlery Warehouse 2000. Fresh-up since winning at the track in May, Brontes Gold sat just behind the speed throughout before being called on by jockey Joe Doyle in the straight and dashed
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Trainers Bruce Wallace and Grant Cooksley are hoping a big spring is in-store for their Group Three winner Sacred Satono (NZ) (Satono Aladdin). The four-year-old entire had his first public hit-out of the season at the Cambridge synthetic trials on Thursday, and he put in an eye-catching performance when storming