New Zealand
Applications are now open for the 2024 Keith and Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship, which supports the future of New Zealand’s breeders in travelling to Ireland and completing the world-renowned Irish National Stud Diploma Course. This scholarship offers an invaluable opportunity to undertake the internationally-recognised National Stud Diploma
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Te Akau Racing is putting another Group One-winning mare on the market with the auction of Romancing The Moon (NZ) (El Roca) on Gavelhouse Plus. Romancing The Moon was bought by David Ellis for $50,000 from Westbury Stud’s Book 1 draft at Karaka 2021, and she turned
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Te Akau Racing were unstoppable at Cambridge Synthetic on Wednesday, with their quartet of winners including an exciting return of promising three-year-olds Legally Binding and Cantatrice. Before the younger contingent took the spotlight, synthetic specialist Stonybreck added a sixth victory on the course in the “All The News
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Al Basti Equiworld Dubai have extended their sponsorship of the New Zealand racing industry to include the $250,000 Gr.3 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Sunline Vase (2100m) and best turned-out prizes at New Zealand’s premier racetrack, Ellerslie. The Gr.3 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Sunline Vase will
Grangewilliam Stud stallion Zed, the sire of 11-time Group One winner and Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) heroine Verry Elleegant, has passed away, aged 22. “He suffered a bout of colic and the only option was surgery,” Grangewilliam Stud principal Mark Corcoran said. “At his age, we just didn’
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West Coast (NZ) (Mettre En Jeu) further cemented his status as one of New Zealand’s greatest ever steeplechasers with a stirring defence of his title in the $150,000 Ben & Ryan Foote Racing Great Northern Steeplechase (6500m) at Te Rapa on Sunday. Both of West Coast’s Great
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A stunning come-from-behind performance carried Lord Spencer (NZ) (Zed) to a Peter Kelly – Bayleys Great Northern Hurdle (4200m) upset at Te Rapa on Sunday, handing trainer JJ Rayner and jockey Lemmy Douglas their biggest moments in jumps racing. The seven-year-old Zed gelding flew under the radar
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Te Akau Racing collected top honours at the 2024 New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards on Sunday evening, which was headlined by Imperatriz, who was named Horse of the Year, while the Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson partnership were Trainer of the Year. Based in New Zealand, Singapore
Breeding
The Davison family and the team at Mapperley Stud are in mourning after the shock loss of their good friend and Group One-producing sire Contributer. The champion son of High Chaparral was starting his ninth season at the Matamata farm but sadly passed away on Sunday morning. A dual
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The Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival has been a happy hunting ground for Peter and Shaun McKay, who returned to Hastings on Saturday and pulled off a training masterstroke with the resuming Wolfgang (NZ) (Puccini) in the Livamol International Health Products Premier (1600m). The blue and gold colours of the
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TAB New Zealand is once again showing their support for Daffodil Day at the Tarzino Trophy meeting at Hastings on Saturday. In what has become an annual tradition on the opening day of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival, the Daffodil Day silks will be assigned to a leading runner
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Te Akau Racing celebrated five winners across three venues on Saturday, including the exciting return of stakes-bound filly The Victress (Zousain) at Riccarton Park. Te Akau trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson posted four successes on home soil, including a treble at Riccarton Park headed by the Zousain filly,