New Zealand
Like many trainers around the country, Vicki Prendergast has been frustrated by the wet weather of late, but is welcoming the sunny forecast leading into the final leg of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival at Hastings on Saturday. The Matamata trainer is set to head south this weekend with
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Group Three performer Moeraki (NZ) (El Roca) made a pleasing return to his homeland on Tuesday when winning his 800m trial at Matamata. The former Hong Kong galloper was initially trained in New Zealand by Danica Guy, for who he placed in two of his three starts as a juvenile,
New Zealand
Exciting three-year-old Lupo Solitario (NZ) (Satono Aladdin) is exciting trainer Danica Guy ahead of his first tilt at stakes level next weekend. The son of Satono Aladdin has impressed in his two starts to date, winning on debut over 1200m at Te Rapa in August, before posting the
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Sydney is calling La Crique following her placing in last Saturday’s Listed Matamata Cup (1600m), With trainers Simon and Katrina Alexander having withdrawn her from the Gr.1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m) a week prior, the couple elected to give her a hit-out over a mile closer to
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It’s been a frustrating last few months for the connections of Prowess, but they were relieved to finally see their mare back at the races on Saturday. An abscess ruled the multiple Group One winner out of her first-up target, the Gr.1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) last month,
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Uareastar will continue her comeback when she heads to Hawera on Saturday to contest the NZ Farmers Livestock LTD Egmont Cup (2100m). The seven-year-old mare reached the pinnacle of staying racing in New Zealand when taking out the Gr.2 Auckland Cup (3200m) last year, but was forced
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Matamata trainer Stephen Autridge has focussed on quality rather than quantity in his stable over the last few years, and it’s showing. The veteran horseman has just 15 horses in work, and a third of those are three-year-old fillies on target for the Gr.1 Barneswood Farm
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The South African accent has been growing in volume in jockey rooms around the country in recent years thanks to former jockey turned NZ Equine Academy director Donavan Mansour, with that number growing by one this season. Apprentice jockey Gareth Lahoud has added his voice to the expat South African
Australia
Lost And Running (NZ) (Per Incanto), a one-time The Everest (1200m) second favourite, has been retired. Trainer John O’Shea elected to bring down the curtain on his star sprinter’s racing career following his disappointing last-placed finish in last Saturday’s Gr.2 Premiere Stakes (1200m) at
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Spring hasn’t been kind to La Crique (NZ) (Vadamos) in New Zealand and punters might get their last glimpse of her racing during the fickle season in her homeland when she contests the Listed Team Wealleans Matamata Cup (1600m) on Saturday. The five-year-old mare’s spring preparation
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Trainer Mark Walker is hoping his talented mare Skew Wiff (NZ) (Savabeel) can bring her New Zealand form to Flemington on Saturday where she will line-up in the Gr.2 Rose Of Kingston Stakes (1400m). The Waikato Stud bred and raced four-year-old made a great start to
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A pair of Te Akau Racing fillies will be vying to keep their Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) hopes alive when they step out this week. Last start runner-up She Turns Heads will attempt to go one better when she heads to Tauranga on Wednesday