Racing
An abandoned meeting is never an ideal starting point in a new campaign, but trainer Lance Noble is looking on the bright side as he prepares Group One-winning mare Jaarffi (NZ) (Iffraaj) for her delayed return to racing in Saturday’s Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes at Ellerslie. Originally scheduled
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Te Akau Racing unleashed one of their leading candidates for the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton in November when System Of Play (Ole Kirk) made short work of his rivals at Ellerslie on Saturday. The unbeaten colt, who had won his only
New Zealand
Four of Arabian Songbird’s (NZ) (Pierro) five wins have come at Ellerslie, and on Saturday the highly talented mare will return to the Auckland track to make her first raceday appearance in more than 300 days when she lines up in the Windsor Park Stud 1400. The daughter of
Australia
The prestigious and lucrative Spring Carnival has lured Cosmic Crusader (NZ) (Maurice) to Victoria, and the Group One-winning Western Australian made a big first impression on Melbourne in Saturday’s A$200,000 Gr.3 The Big Screen Company Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. Bred in New Zealand by
Australia
In-form mare First Chorus (NZ) (Ghibellines) has a spring black-type feature in her crosshairs after carrying on her rich vein of winter form in Saturday’s A$150,000 Tobin Brothers Celebrating Lives Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield. The New Zealand-bred Ghibellines mare is now a seven-time
Australia
The winter of 2026 has been a turning point in the career of New Zealand-bred filly Satono Jasmine (NZ) (Satono Aladdin), who stretched her winning sequence to four in the A$160,000 B & K Group Australia Handicap (1800m) at Randwick on Saturday. The daughter of Rich Hill
Australia
Saturday’s A$120,000 TAB Highway Plate (1800m) at Randwick was the second straight Highway victory for Leovanni (NZ) (Proisir), and the third consecutive win overall for the in-form mare. The New Zealand-bred daughter of Rich Hill Stud stallion Proisir took 12 starts to collect her first
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Saturday’s Gr.3 Concorde Stakes (1200m) at Pukekohe will be missing one of its headline acts after a temperature spike forced Crocetti to be withdrawn. The dual Group One winner has been off the scene since being unplaced in The Quokka (1200m) in Perth in late April, and he
Racing
Bill Thurlow and Sam O’Malley are setting their sights on a return to Group One competition with Whangaehu (NZ) (Proisir) after a pleasing trial at Woodville on Tuesday. The well-performed Proisir gelding was required to trial to the satisfaction of the stewards after his last-start eighth in
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The two-year-old race staged by the Levin Racing Club at Otaki every November has a proven record of unearthing top-level talent, and Te Akau Racing is hoping for more of the same with Sunday’s Levin Jumpouts 2YO (1100m) winner Kinnaird. The late-spring juvenile event boasts
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Peachy Keen (NZ) (Reliable Man) capped a super-consistent spring campaign with a last-gasp victory in Sunday’s $50,000 Happy Hire Cromwell Cup (2030m). Trained in Timaru by Leonard and Lacy Stewart, Peachy Keen came into his five-year-old season with two wins and a placing to
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Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh won the Gr.3 Jennian Homes Wellington Stakes (1600m) for the fifth time at Otaki on Sunday with emerging talent Ammirati (NZ) (Savabeel), but this was a win unlike any other. Marsh had previously taken out the three-year-old feature with Lucia Valentina (2013), Crown